Peter Sugden

Highly experienced transactional lawyer in the real estate and hospitality sectors. In practice in the City for more than 35 years. Rated in Legal Directories annually for over 25 years with a reputation for having a pragmatic, user friendly, no nonsense approach to deal execution and advice.

Experienced across multiple asset types and all types of deal and investment structures. Highly experienced in managing larger portfolio and more complex corporate real estate and hospitality transactions.

Particular experience in real estate investment work, funding, hospitality (hotels and serviced apartments), joint ventures, structuring and corporate real estate deals.

Client experience spans Private Equity, Funds, Pension Schemes, Collective Investors, Private Investors, Owner Operators and Overseas Entrants to the UK.

Experience

• Shale sale of a portfolio of retail parks to a US Investment Trust

• Asset purchase of a regional operational hotel for a Singapore PLC

• Letting of a residential conversion in Central London to a serviced apartment operator and onward sale to an offshore investment fund.

• Advising a private equity platform on exit arrangements from a hotel portfolio joint venture.

• Acting for a offshore investor group purchasing a London hotel for significant cap ex refurbishment with associated financing and refinancing.

• Advising a European property fund on landlord and tenant issues relating to a City office building with construction defects.

• Assisting an overseas buyer in relation to the purchase of a micro brewery in the UK

• Acting on the purchase of an operational home counties leisure hotel for significant capex and rebranding to a newly created brand, including the financing arrangements, operational lease and hotel management agreement structuring, joint venture arrangements and IP protection of the new brand.

• Purchase of a Central London office building in a joint venture with a boutique hotel brand for conversion and operation with associated financing, opco/propco structure and hotel management agreement

Qualifications

Solicitor, England and Wales