England - South East • Real estate
Shakespeare Martineau LLP
Shakespeare Martineau LLP houses an experienced team of practitioners, who dispense advice on lease acquisitions and pre-let agreements. Practice head Joseph Soul has vast experience in assisting healthcare and education operators with the ownership and development of medical centres, care homes, and private medical hospitals. The ‘highly knowledgeable’ Allawee Albaghdadi is particularly adept at advising commercial and residential developers, and corporate occupiers on development, funding and industrial schemes.
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Testimonials
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‘The team is responsive, and very professional, they turn around work quickly, and are always on the end of the phone to answer any questions or queries you may have.'
‘Allawee Albaghdadi has excellent customer care skills, is highly knowledgeable and has an amazing supporting team to deal with and field any issues you bring to him.’
'All the professional team are very competent and handled our matter with upmost professionalism. The advice we got was very clear and they came up with solution for issues which could effectively have been deal breakers.'
'Very good people skills - looks at the clients needs and ready to invest the required time and effort to get things done.'
Key clients
- XPO
- Fired Earth Limited
- International Students House
- Royal Mencap Society
- University of West London
- Autocraft Drivetrain Solutions Limited / Harmor Limited
- Camphill MK Communities
- Bedfordshire Charitable Trust
- Welford Healthcare
- Person Centred Software Limited
- Marchmont Farms Limited
- Homes Plus
- Mintridge Strategic Land Limited
- Westgate Healthcare Group
- Salveo Care Group
- National Westminster Bank (Healthcare)
- We Care Group
- Brightstar Hospitality Limited
- Stonewater Limited
- Bright Horizons
Work highlights
- Advised Welford Bidco 5 Midco Limited on its acquisition of six trading care homes from the Morris Care Group for £56m.
- Advised XPO Transport Solutions Limited, a US-owned multinational warehousing and logistics company, on its acquisition of a ten-year lease from a UK property fund of a newly built mega warehouse in Milton Keynes.
- Advised University of West London on its strategic acquisition of a freehold building London for over £19m from Penguin Random House, for conversion to mixed office and education use.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Joseph Soul