About

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We are a top tier, award winning real estate practice providing a bespoke service for the world’s leading investors into the UK and European markets. What we do and how we do it We provide services to companies who invest and trade in real estate covering the complete project life-cycle from finance, structuring and purchase, through development and asset management to sale and realisation of returns. We operate in many regulatory environments across the globe with clients from a variety of cultural backgrounds with different levels of market and transactional experience. As importantly, we try to connect our clients and contacts around the globe into unique real estate opportunities.

Over the past three years we have helped our clients transact over £25bn of real estate assets. Sales and purchases demand a wide variety of fully integrated skills. We will always field and co-ordinate teams that deliver succinct and joined-up advice for you. Due diligence drives asset acquisitions. We will work with you to identify your key objectives and tailor our due diligence and advice to deliver them. We will produce precisely targeted reports which you will be able to use for negotiation, price reduction and future planning. Contract negotiations anchor all transactions. We will concentrate on what you want commercially and get you the contract terms that deliver it.

Chambers Review

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Real Estate: £150 million and above - London (Firms)

4
Band 4

What the Team is Known For

Eversheds Sutherland handles work relating to large commercial property portfolios as well as high-value single-asset transactions. The team has additional experience in development, including both residential and commercial schemes, and is also noted for its robust inward investment practice, regularly advising clients based in the Middle East and Asia. The group also handles high-level work for corporate occupiers, including sale and leaseback transactions and headquarters relocations.

Work Highlights

  • Eversheds Sutherland advised the Unite Group on a portfolio asset swap involving nine purpose-built student accommodation assets.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Tom Goldsmith
5
Tom Goldsmith
5
Band 5

Tom Goldsmith acts as head of Eversheds' London real estate team and is recommended for his representation of high-profile tenants in the corporate occupier market.

Tom is very quick to respond and provide solutions to problems. He is commercially innovative and cuts through the problems.

Lee Jackson
6
Lee Jackson
6
Band 6
Lee Jackson advises private equity and global investor clients, providing specialist advice on inward investment.
Nicholas Bartlett
6
Nicholas Bartlett
6
Band 6

Nicholas Bartlett is head of the living sector group at Eversheds Sutherland and has deep expertise in handling complex transactional mandates. His client base includes property companies, high net worth individuals and institutional investors, including pension and sovereign wealth funds.

Nicholas provides very thoughtful and tailored advice in relation to real estate matters. His breadth of industry knowledge comes across when giving advice.

Rob Donell
U
Rob Donell
U
Up and Coming

Rob Donell assists clients with a variety of commercial real estate matters, including deals concerning telecommunications, specifically data centres, and rail infrastructure.

Rob is intellectually strong and wants to give you all of the detail. He has an intense knowledge of very interesting and new developing real estate centres, such as data centres.

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Eversheds Sutherland

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London (Firms)

Real Estate: £150 million and above

Tom Goldsmith
5
Tom Goldsmith
5
Band 5
Lee Jackson
6
Lee Jackson
6
Band 6
Nicholas Bartlett
6
Nicholas Bartlett
6
Band 6
Rob Donell
U
Rob Donell
U
Up and Coming

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