Real estate investment demands clarity, discipline and judgement. Investors are navigating higher costs of capital, increasing regulation and complex funding and planning environments, often across diverse portfolios and long-term strategies. Our team cuts through this complexity, providing clear advice and practical solutions to help investors act with confidence.
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Jason Tann| Partner, Head of Real Estate Investment
Our Real Estate Investment specialism is designed around how investors operate in practice. As one integrated London team, we partner with clients to structure, execute and manage real estate investments with confidence. From acquisition and funding through asset management and exit, we deliver robust legal frameworks that protect capital, manage risk and keep investments aligned to your commercial objectives.
Cross-specialism collaboration that protects and enhances value
We advise investors in real estate across acquisitions, finance, asset management, disputes and exits through a single, coordinated team operating from one London office. This one-team approach ensures continuity, pace and clarity - the same people advising you from initial strategy through ownership and beyond.
Our work spans single‑asset transactions and complex, multi‑asset portfolios. We act for investors deploying private capital who need commercially grounded advice that reflects long‑term objectives, funding pressures and exit optionality.
By bringing together expertise in real estate, finance, disputes, corporate, planning, construction and private wealth, we provide integrated advice that anticipates risk early, supports faster decision‑making and keeps investments aligned to commercial goals.
Our advice is grounded in a detailed understanding of the London real estate market but with national and international reach. We combine market acumen with insight across regulatory, planning and funding environments to address the issues that directly affect investment performance.
We work across all commercial sectors and residential and mixed-use assets with deep experience in offices, logistics, retail and leisure and living. This breadth enables us to deliver seamless advice from acquisition and development through operational ownership and exit – supporting resilient, long-term value across diverse portfolios.
Recent Experience
Advising the seller of a £18.5m special high value art storage industrial site, involving specialist planning and development advice.
Specialist hotels asset manager on the £72m acquisition and re-financing of three London hotels involving joint venture agreements and tax advice.
Advising investor on £32m acquisition and sub-sale of an industrial site for redevelopment to residential, with investment, development and VAT advice.
Advising an international investor on commercial, residential and mixed-use development investments including due diligence, corporate real estate and development advice.
Acting for a leisure investor on the multi-currency funding of their London and Amsterdam expansion.
Advising an investment fund on £45m acquisition and financing of the HQ of a media business into redevelopment for a Thameside mixed-use scheme.
Navigating complexity throughout the investment lifecycle
Investors in real estate are operating in an environment defined by complexity: higher costs of capital, increased regulatory intervention, evolving frameworks and heightened scrutiny from lenders and stakeholders.
We help our clients overcome these challenges by embedding legal insight directly into investment strategy. Our advice is practical, commercially focused and designed to drive outcomes.
We support clients with:
Structuring and executing acquisitions and disposals
Investment and development finance
Active legal asset management, including leasing, income protection and dispute avoidance
Regulatory‑led advice across building safety, ESG and MEES, tenancy and leasehold reform
Development, repositioning and value‑enhancement projects
Strategic exits and refinancing
Our strength lies in understanding how legal, regulatory and commercial factors interact over time. We do not treat regulation as a downstream problem. Instead, we integrate it into asset planning and portfolio strategy, helping clients remain compliant.
By integrating regulatory and risk analysis early, we help protect income, support valuations and strengthen lender confidence throughout ownership.
The real estate sector has transformed. Are you ready?
Our latest campaign, Real Estate, Real Change, Real Expertise, discusses the real estate transformation and how developers, investors, entrepreneurs and occupiers can navigate the challenges and opportunities in this dynamic landscape.
Clients choose our Real Estate Investment team for our clarity, pace and commercial judgement. Our insight allows us to identify issues early, act decisively when opportunities arise and deliver advice that protects capital, manages risk and supports resilient, high‑performing portfolios.
Our impact is reflected in repeat, lifecycle mandates and long‑standing client relationships. Our team work to deliver joined‑up advice that helps investors move forward with certainty in complex, fast‑changing markets.
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Working closely with you, we'll find the best way to get you quickly and easily from where you are to where you want to be.
