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Real Estate

Areas of expertise include:

  • Acquisition and disposal
  • Development
  • Planning and environmental issues
  • Construction
  • Financing
  • Joint ventures and ownership structures
  • Tax
  • Management structures
  • Landlord and tenant issues
  • Sale and leasebacks
  • Qualifying Investor Alternative Investment Funds ‘QIAIFs’ (including the use of ICAVs and other structures)
  • Loan portfolio acquisition and disposal
  • Student Accommodation
  • Multi-family development, private rented sector ‘PRS’, student accommodation, primary health care development

Our recent experience includes:

  • Acted for Hammerson and Allianz Real Estate, the successful purchaser on the largest real estate related transaction in the history of the Irish state, Project Jewel, a loan portfolio with a par value of EUR€2.6bn
  • Advising NAMA on the €300m development of the iconic Boland’s Mill in the heart of Dublin docklands,
  • Acted for York Capital, Oaktree Capital and Clarendon Properties on the purchase of Project Hazel Portfolio comprising of 3 shopping centres – Wilton Centre Cork, Drogheda Retail Park and Gateweay Centre Galway.
  • Advised Value Retail on the development and expansion of Kildare Village outside Dublin, one of the its large portfolio of outlet shopping villages across Europe and Asia, including Bicester Village outside London
  • Carried out full due diligence and negotiated contracts and structuring join venture arrangements within a €120m ICAV structure for York Capital and Clarendon Properties in respect of Wilton Shopping Centre
  • Acted for NAMA in the €30m sale of The Liffey Collection which comprised of modern office blocks in Dublin city centre
  • Acted for Hibernia REIT on the €50m acquisition of Block B, Central Quay, Dublin 2
  • Carried out full due diligence and negotiated contract for sale in respect of the purchase of the Bloodstone building from Blackstone
  • Acted for Global Student Accommodation Investment Management in the acquisition of a site in Dublin 8