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Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Real Estate: £10-50 million

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Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

About

Provided by Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Penningtons Manches’ real estate practice combines strength and breadth with over 80 partners, consultants and associates across the firm offering focused, practical and high quality advice on all stages and types of real estate transactions.

We are experienced in dealing with investment sales and purchases, funding agreements, development schemes, portfolio management, structuring and joint ventures, distressed debt acquisition, landlord & tenant matters and enfranchisement as well as smaller commercial property work. Specialist planning, environmental, taxation and disputes expertise is also provided.

Our wide client base ranges from property entrepreneurs, based in the UK and internationally, to property companies, contractors, banks, institutional investors and corporates with surplus properties. We also deliver expert guidance to the social housing sector, health and care providers, mixed use developers, retailers and tenants, educational establishments and student accommodation providers.

Our lawyers blend expertise and efficiency with a thorough understanding of your needs to provide you with the right specialist skills, realistic costs and appropriate timescales throughout the acquisition, development, sale and management of an individual property or substantial portfolio.

Chambers Review

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Real Estate: £10-50 million - London (Firms)

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What the Team is Known For

Penningtons Manches Cooper has an impressive team that handles investment and development matters and joint venture property projects. The firm regularly advises on student accommodation, prime residential sales and purchases, and a variety of other property investments. It also ably handles the acquisition and disposal of substantial property portfolios, notably in the hotel and leisure sector. The group's development expertise includes residential schemes and mixed-use redevelopments.

Notable practitioners

James Nadin is head of the firm's commercial real estate team.

Work Highlights

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  • Penningtons Manches Cooper represented Great Western Developments in relation to the Paddington Sqaure development.

Strengths

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  • Penningtons have excellent breadth of knowledge and acumen on real estate and development.

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  • Penningtons fully understand our structure and are able to work with this structure in complex transactions. They are also extremely responsive.

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  • Penningtons are fast, responsive and have huge experience.

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  • On all occasions we have found the team to be concise in their advice.

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  • The whole team clearly has strong expertise and delivers efficient and straightforward advice which helpfully simplifies complex issues and legal matters.

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