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Real Estate
Real estate is about making property work for you, whether it is your core business, or ancillary to it.

That may mean securing the right sites for a retail or leisure brand roll-out, expanding or refitting office space at just the right time to increase business capacity, getting the right structure in place for a mixed use public/private development, or building an investment portfolio. All of these require commercially oriented and pragmatic legal expertise delivered in a straightforward, accessible way.
Lewis Silkin Real Estate

Our real estate group combines real depth of knowledge with breadth of scope and capability. We have a particular focus on corporate occupiers, development and regeneration, investment, and property finance, with our work ranging from transactional support to providing specialist advice covering planning, construction, dispute resolution and tax.

We advise lenders and investors; private developers, major corporates and public bodies; as well as both landlords and tenants, giving us a wide-ranging perspective. Regardless of their business type or sector, our clients come back to us time and again, demonstrating the trust they place in us to help them to address their property-related challenges.

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Chambers Review

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Real Estate: £50-150 million - London (Firms)

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Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Lewis Silkin has a solid real estate practice with clients ranging from high net worth individuals and family offices to luxury brand retailers and leisure sector developers. The team is well placed to advise on matters of real estate investment and all aspects of managing substantial property portfolios. It also has considerable commercial development expertise and frequently handles office headquarters moves.

Work Highlights

  • Lewis Silkin advised Selfridges on the restructuring of its office lease at 103 Wigmore Street.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Rachel Francis-Lang
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Rachel Francis-Lang
2
Band 2

Rachel Francis-Lang focuses her practice on commercial property, with particular expertise in office leasing, acquisitions and relocations for corporate occupiers.

Rachel is an exceptional attorney and is extremely passionate and diligent on all real estate issues. She is a pleasure to working with.

Rachel is a first-class lawyer. She helps to evaluate the legal implications of the facts to arrive at a solution.

Rachel has been our primary point of contact and is an outstanding resource and colleague for us.

Rachel is very reliable and gives commercial advice.

Rachel is the best in the business. There is nothing she doesn't know, she is extremely accurate and she has excellent availability.

Ranked Lawyers at
Lewis Silkin

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Real Estate: £10-50 million

Rachel Francis-Lang
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Rachel Francis-Lang
2
Band 2

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