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30 KING STREET, LONDON, EC2V 8EE, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7600 3800
Fax:
Fax 020 3465 4400
DX:
DX 138754 CHEAPSIDE
Web:
www.maplesteesdale.co.uk
Email:

Katherine Watts

Tel:
Work +44 20 3465 4352
Email:
Maples Teesdale LLP

Work Department

Commercial property.

Position

Partner specialising in commercial property, including real estate-related financing and secured lending, investment acquisitions and disposals, commercial property development (including forward funding) and owner/occupier issues both landlord and tenant. Notable transactions include: acting for a major pension fund on a forward funding development transaction at Crick; acting for a major pension fund on the acquisition of a portfolio of properties, including a partially developed retail park; acting for a leading fund on the acquisition of development land for a speculative office development; and acting for a prominent University in relation to the leasing of strategic premises.

Career

Trained Norton Rose; qualified 1989; assistant solicitor at Norton Rose (1989-98); assistant solicitor at Lovells (1999-2001); partner at legacy firm Lovells (2001-09); partner at Maples Teesdale LLP (2009).

Member

Member and founder of Federation of Corporate Real Estate Advisors; vice chairman of Commercial Real Estate Legal Association.

Education

Lancaster University (LLB); College of Law, London.

Practice Areas

Finance - property; Property - commercial property

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