Tim Allen

Tim heads up Bristows’ real estate practice and has strong expertise in complex asset management, build to rent and corporate occupier work across a range of sectors including legal, logistics and financial services. He advises a major UK healthcare provider on their real estate portfolio and recently led the real estate aspects of a £1.1bn sale and leaseback transaction.

Tim specialises in commercial real estate with extensive experience of BTR development projects, sale and leaseback deals, asset management and complex corporate occupier deals. Some of Tim’s work highlights include:

- Advising one of the UK’s largest healthcare providers on the real estate aspects of a £1.1bn sale and leaseback transaction.

- Advising a US based global law firm on the acquisition of a new European headquarters in the City of London.

- Advising a build to rent developer on the conditional purchase of an office block from a sovereign wealth fund.

- Advising a build to rent developer on site assembly and conditional purchase of a proposed development site with an anticipate GDV of £650m.

- Advising on the sale of a UK consulate.

- Advising an overseas landlord client on the re-structuring of management arrangements for a landmark central London asset.

Tim is interested in the potential for technology to improve the way that property is designed, constructed, traded and occupied.

Tim has committed to promoting London as a home for the international technology community as a Tech London Advocate.

LLB (Hons), University of Southampton

LLM, University of Southampton

Qualified 2004

Partner 2018