Real estate

Acted for PureGym in its £350m acquisition of Fitness World.

Acted for Boots in its acquisition of a new format, new concept store at Covent Garden.

Acted for Boots in the redevelopment of its Kensington High Street Store, which involved a number of phased relocations.

Acted for Motorsport Vision Limited in the grant of a lease to Aston Barclay at Donington Park – a great addition to this site.

Acted for Gateway 14 in the acquisition of two substantial development sites in Stowmarket, to be developed as an Employment Park.

Acted for two adjoining sets of landowners on a complex hybrid option/promotion agreement for a 170 acre housing led development in Nottinghamshire.

Advised Leicestershire County Council on its ‘Lutterworth East’ strategic development area: a 450 acre site being promoted for 2750 new homes, employment development, a new school and community land together with major road infrastructure connecting to the M1.

The acquisition and proposed £120m redevelopment of Nottingham’s historic Guildhall complex and a hotel, restaurant and spa facilities, student accommodation, offices and retail.

Advised Charnwood Borough Council on its ‘Eastern Gateway’ regeneration of Loughborough town centre involving the redevelopment of an 11 acre site as 120 new homes together with major improvements to the town’s train station, a new link road and other transport infrastructure. We advised from the very early stages, including in relation to procurement issues, an initial memorandum of understanding between the key parties and the subsequent heads of terms. A member of our team sat alongside the Council on its project steering group. We dealt with the site acquisition and subsequent development agreements with a housing association, the highway authority and two separate rail companies.

Advised Derby City Council on the development of Infinity Park, Derby - a new advanced manufacturing focussed innovation and technology orientated business park on a 200 acre site and anticipated to generate 1.5m square feet of new buildings. Our wide ranging involvement covered site assembly, development agreements for major infrastructure delivery and complex funding arrangements, together with advice on construction, planning, state aid, procurement, tax and banking issues.

Helped to secure a multi-million pound facility to assist in the construction of Formula E’s global headquarters and team testing facilities within at Donington Park Racing Circuit. Part of the loan facility was obtained from the Leicester and Leicestershire Local Enterprise Partnership’s (LLEP) Growing Places Fund. We dealt with the completion of the leases with Formula E Operations of the six newly constructed buildings at Donington and the completion of underleases with the various racing teams - including Virgin and Team China, to name but a few.

Advised Mortar Developments on its fourteen storey “Global Point” mixed-use development in Nottingham city centre, providing 449 high-spec student bed spaces together with retail/A3/office space and basement car parking facilities. We dealt with the variation/release of a number of third party interests, a rights of light claim, law firms across several foreign jurisdictions, and the relocation of existing leases affecting the site.

Advised Waterloo Housing Group on a scheme in Mablethorpe; the project involves the development of 120 new affordable homes, open market housing, a new supermarket, new distributor road and ancillary infrastructure. The scheme was recently expanded to include an additional phase. Our work included a complex series of agreements with various other parties - including private developer Lindum Homes and East Lindsey District Council - covering property, development, planning and tax issues.