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Eversheds Sutherland

Real Estate: £150 million and above

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Eversheds Sutherland

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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.

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

Band 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

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

Strengths

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  • Eversheds have a very personable team who are easy to deal with, come up with pragmatic solutions and meet deadlines. The team are all very knowledgeable and make themselves available at short notice.

    Real Estate: £150 million and above respondentUK
  • Eversheds have demonstrated the ability to handle the most complex transactions, providing solid, experience-led advice. They are also capable of providing advice across all areas.

    Real Estate: £150 million and above respondentUK
  • Eversheds have an experienced team. They are knowledgeable and responsive.

    Real Estate: £150 million and above respondentUK
  • Eversheds houses very approachable individuals who offer an innovative approach to helping clients. They always make themselves available and are very astute when advising.

    Real Estate: £150 million and above respondentUK
  • Eversheds have a detailed level of diligence, responsiveness and extremely capable individuals who are incredibly nice.

    Real Estate: £150 million and above respondentUK

Notable Practitioners

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  • Band 5Tom Goldsmith
    Band 5Tom Goldsmith

    Tom Goldsmith

    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.

      Real Estate: £150 million and above respondentUK
  • Band 6Lee Jackson
    Band 6Lee Jackson

    Lee Jackson

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

    Nicholas Bartlett

    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.

      Real Estate: £150 million and above respondentUK
  • Up and ComingRob Donell
    Up and ComingRob Donell

    Rob Donell

    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.

      Real Estate: £150 million and above respondentUK

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