Commercial Real Estate

Our Commercial Real Estate team is led by experienced partners, whose focus is complex development projects. We have a wealth of experience derived from working with our clients on their residential, industrial, office and mixed use projects. We provide a development life cycle service working closely with our clients as part of their team from the strategic site assembly and planning stage through to funding end user disposals and developer exits. Our experience encompasses a wide variety of projects from compact town centre regeneration schemes, to an innovative hospital scheme under the private finance initiative and redevelopment of significant regional conurbations. We are used to tailoring innovative legal solutions for specific commercial contexts and have great depth of experience in negotiating complex financial provisions for options, joint ventures and overage arrangements.

To complement and support this development focus, our lawyers are also experienced in acting for financial institutions assisting with their more complex financing arrangements. We also assist UK and international investors with acquisition and disposals and with proactive management of their real estate portfolios, where we have balanced experience in acting for both Landlord and Tenant. In this context we act for businesses as well as high net worth private investors who require the level of service expected by blue chip enterprises.

For manufacturers (both UK and multi-national) we can provide an exceptional level of experience and understanding of operational considerations relating to industrial and commercial properties and of real estate aspects of corporate asset management, mergers, demergers and business acquisitions, disposals and buy-outs.

Recently our team has been proud to be involved with:

• The complex re-financing of a regional sports and events stadium.
• A town centre redevelopment in Warwickshire.
• Complex strategic land assembly, planning and infrastructure arrangements for a major residential development scheme in the south of England.
• The assembly, development and disposal of a new biomedical campus in east of England.
• An international real estate investment joint venture with the management and development of a major UK business park.
• The relocation of an international household name manufacturer to a new 500,000 square foot state of the art facility to be developed by themselves on a greenfield site.
• The sale of a 10 acre site to the Medical Research Council for a new 350,000 square foot laboratory of molecular biology.
• The disposal by an American international group of a brownfield industrial site in the north of England.

Legal directory Chambers & Partners UK 2010 says: “Hill Hofstetter has established a robust practice focusing on development, regeneration and strategic land issues for national and local clients.”

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