Real Estate: £50-150 million
UK Guide 2025 : London (Firms)
Band 3
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Pragmatic, commercially focused legal advice makes a powerful difference when you’re making major property decisions. Our real estate team is renowned for developing long-lasting partnerships with clients. We have a reputation for developing and attracting talented, commercially-minded lawyers with an appetite for getting the deal done.
With international expertise and broad experience in every kind of commercial and residential property transaction, we advise clients all over the world including:
- major property companies
- institutional investors
- banks
- hotel groups
- public sector organisations
- corporate occupiers.
Whether it’s a major investment acquisition or disposal, or a routine landlord and tenant matter, you have top legal talent and a highly committed team on your side. You get legal advice that is based on a profound understanding of your business and of the property market. Expert advice that is easy to digest.
We have extensive experience of:
- investment acquisitions and disposals
- financings and refinancings
- development projects including planning and environmental advice
- sale and leasebacks and other structures
- management matters.
As well as our core team of real estate lawyers we offer wider services to real estate clients through our finance, tax, corporate and construction specialists.
Chambers Review
Stephenson Harwood is noted for its investment work and sizeable development practice, as well as advising on a range of complex landlord and tenant matters. The team is active in transactions involving shopping centres, high-value London property and mixed-use urban redevelopment. The group also handles mandates concerning alternative asset classes, such as care homes and data centres. The firm can offer further strength in the hotels and leisure sector, providing both investment and redevelopment advice.
Work Highlights
- Stephenson Harwood advised Schroders on its disposal of a 250-year-long leasehold interest in One Ruskin Square, a nine-storey office building in Croydon in London.
Strengths
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"Stephenson Harwood sees right through the complexity and is able to distil it in a way that makes it easy for us to understand."
"The advice from Stephenson Harwood is always practical and simple to grasp from a layman's perspective. They are responsive and provide a good level of service."
"The firm shows a high level of detail and diligence. They have a commercial approach to transactions. The team has a high client focus and is extremely responsive."
"Stephenson Harwood sees right through the complexity and is able to distil it in a way that makes it easy for us to understand."
"The advice from Stephenson Harwood is always practical and simple to grasp from a layman's perspective. They are responsive and provide a good level of service."
"The firm shows a high level of detail and diligence. They have a commercial approach to transactions. The team has a high client focus and is extremely responsive."
Notable Practitioners
David Sinclair of Stephenson Harwood provides advice on major development projects in London as well as handling cross-border acquisitions on behalf of international investors expanding their UK property portfolios. His work spans a variety of asset classes, including offices, hotels and infrastructure.
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