Real Estate

Key real estate challenges: 
Occupiers and landlords face evolving demands ‒ ESG commitments, portfolio optimization, hybrid working, digital infrastructure, and redefining landlord-tenant relationships. Navigating these challenges requires commercial insight and sector experience. 

How we help: 
We invest in understanding each client’s business drivers, offering tailored solutions for leasing, portfolio management, and strategic negotiations. Our experience in advising both landlords and tenants enables us to deliver pragmatic advice and manage complex arrangements across asset classes.  

Key real estate challenges: 
Development and regeneration projects require advice across site assembly, planning and land use, procurement, eminent domain/compulsory purchase, environmental, construction, financing, tax and joint ventures.  

How we help: 
Our team is highly experienced in project managing real estate development projects and can draw on all areas of the firm to support real estate development. We have an in-depth understanding of the issues that developers, landowners and public authorities face.

Key real estate challenges: 
Investors need advice across the real estate life-cycle ‒ acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, and portfolio transactions. Aligning deals with investment strategy and capital flows is critical. 

How we help: 
Our global team combines international and local experience to guide our clients through the global real estate investment market. We bring together lawyers from real estate, tax, finance, funds, corporate planning and construction in an integrated team covering all areas relevant to complex real estate investment transactions.

Key real estate challenges: 
Tax considerations impact every real estate transaction, including acquisitions, funding, cash repatriation, compliance and exit. Proactively monitoring and mitigating risks is critical when navigating evolving and increasingly complex, cross-border, tax regimes and regulatory landscapes.  

How we help: 
Our global tax team works seamlessly with our real estate teams to deliver pragmatic, commercial solutions. We advise on structuring, financings, acquisitions, disposals, fund formation, JVs, SMAs, executive compensation, management incentivization and ongoing pro-active tax risk management. 

Key real estate challenges: 
Disputes can arise across the real estate lifecycle including during planning, site development, investment, joint venture arrangements, contractual negotiations, regulatory issues, managing assets and maximizing asset value.   

How we help: 
We focus on advising on and resolving disputes efficiently and in a way that is commercial and legally balances the correct approach for our client. Our experience spans all asset classes and transaction types, enabling us to protect clients' interests and maintain commercial relationships. 

Key real estate challenges: 
Navigating complex processes to secure legally robust planning and zoning consents/permits, land rights and environmental approvals is critical to project success. Regulatory risk and stakeholder engagement must be managed. 

How we help: 
We advise on strategies to obtain a variety of consents/permits, application reviews, appeals and court challenges and negotiate a range of planning, land use and infrastructure agreements.  Our work spans all stages, from project inception to delivery.

Key real estate challenges: 
Real estate finance is a constantly evolving market. Successful execution requires coordination across multiple disciplines to balance structural, regulatory and operational considerations, alongside navigating refinancing pressures, capital markets volatility and, increasingly, restructuring scenarios. 

How we help: 
We offer clients deep sector-specific knowledge and experience for every transaction, building teams that understand both the financial product and the underlying assets. Our experience spans the full spectrum of real estate finance, including complex investment financings, CMBS structures and restructurings. With strong capability in both origination and workouts, we support lenders and sponsors across the life-cycle of transactions, delivering commercially focused solutions on even the most-complex mandates.

Key real estate challenges: 
Construction projects carry significant financial and program risk. Complex supply chains, evolving regulatory requirements, and multi-party contract structures demand careful project management. 

How we help: 
We advise on procurement, construction contracts, and risk allocation across the full project life-cycle. We work with all major contract suites – including JCT and NEC – and support clients through delivery challenges, variations, and disputes.  

Key real estate challenges: 
Managing product liability, regulatory compliance, safety, and ESG is increasingly important in construction. Clients must address recalls, regulatory engagement, and supply chain risk. 

How we help: 
We offer comprehensive advice on construction product liability and regulatory matters, supporting clients across the product life-cycle. Our teams help manage risk, ensure compliance, and respond to regulatory challenges efficiently. 

Key real estate challenges: 
Forming, structuring, and operating real estate funds, REITs, and investment platforms requires experience in capital markets and regulatory compliance. 

How we help: 
We advise on fund formation, structuring, and operation, helping clients access and deploy capital efficiently. Our experience spans institutional and private capital, supporting investment platforms in evolving markets. 

Key real estate challenges: 
Developing and financing strategic and infrastructure-linked real estate projects involves complex stakeholder management, regulatory risk, and capital structuring. 

How we help: 
We support clients through the development and financing of strategic projects, including energy transition, transport hubs, and digital infrastructure. Our teams deliver integrated advice, ensuring successful outcomes in high-profile projects.

Key real estate challenges: 
Leveraging technology, data, and process innovation is essential for smarter asset management and transaction execution. Clients need digital solutions and data-driven insights. 

How we help: 
We embed technology and innovation into real estate transactions and asset management, helping clients leverage proptech, digital platforms, and data-driven insights. Our approach delivers greater efficiency, transparency, and control.