Mills & Reeve LLP is highly adept in providing asset and portfolio transactional and management support to its varied clientele. Laura Holdaway leads the practice and is an adept advisor in finance matters. Carina Davis is a specialist in mixed-use sites. Orla O’Sullivan is noted for her work on forward fundings and pre-lets. Sarah Cooke, Tom Nash and Victoria Davies made partner in June 2023.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Partner led advice with real commerciality, helping deliver results in sensible time frames.'

  • ‘Friendly but straight, well-rounded advice.’

  • ‘Very capable and proactive team. They are good at mapping out how a transaction will proceed so we were well briefed and avoided surprises.’

  • ‘Michael Giess is a very competent and technical lawyer but with a high level of commercial acumen.'

Key clients

  • M7 Real Estate
  • FProp Senior Debt Fund
  • Railpen
  • Orchard Street Investment Management LLP
  • Schroders
  • South Kensington Estates
  • Bruntwood Science Limited
  • HSBC Alternative Investments Ltd
  • Urban&Civic plc
  • AgFe
  • Trinity College, Cambridge
  • LaSalle Investment Management
  • Legendre Group Limited
  • London & Regional Properties
  • Langtree Property Partners Limited
  • Fidelity UK Real Estate Fund
  • Bericote Properties Limited
  • Pandox AB
  • Hines UK
  • Royal Mail Pension Plan

Work highlights

  • Acted for HSBC Alternative Investments on the sale of the shares in the 6 Luxembourg incorporated SPV’s which collectively owned the various parts of Brindleyplace.
  • Acted on behalf of Orchard Street Investment Management on the first deal made on behalf of its flagship Impact Fund.
  • Advised Multi Industrial Stag 1 Limited as borrower in connection with a credit facility from Investec Bank plc to refinance the acquisition of a portfolio of properties in the West Midlands.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Laura Holdaway

Other key lawyers

Vincenzo Maggio, Orla O’Sullivan, Michael Giess, Carina Davis, Andy King, Joanna Davies