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Eversheds Sutherland has one of the UK’s largest dedicated real estate teams, recognised as top-tier and award-winning for its work across the full real estate lifecycle. We advise investors, developers, funders, occupiers, and public sector bodies on complex, high-value matters throughout the UK and Europe. Our team delivers commercially focused, end-to-end support across acquisition, financing, structuring, development, asset management, and disposal, working seamlessly across planning, construction, tax, finance, and corporate disciplines. Over the past three years, we have advised on over £25bn of transactions, spanning investment and development deals, joint ventures, regeneration schemes, and portfolio transactions.

Our London Real Estate Practice Group is a growing full-service practice catering to clients’ comprehensive land development, investment, structuring, financing, transactional, planning, and litigation needs. The team is active across the full spectrum of development, including big-ticket property acquisitions and financing, large-scale residential and commercial schemes, infrastructure projects, and regeneration initiatives. Our hallmark is handling structured transactions that blend corporate, tax, regulatory, finance, and land issues across the UK and Europe.

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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