Real assets
whole-of-life.
Acquisition, development, finance, structure and stewardship — one discipline, one adviser, on the capital’s side throughout.
ACQUISITION & DEVELOPMENT
Buying and building, directed from your side
We advise on acquisitions from strategy through completion — target assessment, deal architecture, professional team direction, negotiation — and on development from site assembly and planning strategy through construction procurement and delivery structures. Across offices, residential, hotels, care and healthcare property, the constant is the seat: we hold the investor’s position while the transaction’s many participants hold their own.
FINANCE & LENDING
Both sides of the loan — never in the same transaction
For investors and developers, we structure and negotiate senior, mezzanine and bridging positions so the funding serves the asset plan rather than constraining it. For private lenders, we act on the other seat: scrutinising borrower structures, security architecture and enforcement viability before capital advances, and directing strategy where positions become distressed. Two perspectives, one discipline — and a working knowledge of how each side actually behaves.
STRUCTURING & TAX CONTEXT
Ownership and vehicle design, joint venture and co-investment arrangements, governance and ring-fencing — mapped through the Structuring Options Map™ and designed for control, succession and exit as much as for completion. We advise on the structural dimensions of UK property taxation, including SDLT positioning, at strategy level and alongside your tax advisers — the decisions that must be right before exchange, because afterwards they are merely expensive.
The architecture layer
ASSET MANAGEMENT & REPOSITIONING
The holding years are where returns are made — or forfeited
For held portfolios: strategic reviews through the Sector Opportunity Matrix™, refinancing at the right moments rather than the forced ones, repositioning and change-of-use strategy, and exit planning that begins years before the exit. This is the work our retained relationships are built on — counsel that arrives before the question does.
Bring us the asset, the loan or the portfolio. We will tell you what we would do in your position — and what it would cost to find out properly.