Maples Teesdale LLP

Maples Teesdale LLP

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Anastasia Klein

Anastasia Klein

As well as being an experienced partner in our commercial real estate team, Anastasia is Head of ESG and co-Head of EDI at Maples Teesdale. Ana has extensive experience of capital transactions and asset management, including acquisitions, disposals, financing and portfolio deals, developments and pre-lets. Her work spans a range of sectors, including industrial and logistics, film and media, retail and offices. She led the team dealing with the property aspects of a REIT conversion for one of the UK’s largest property trusts involving assets valued in excess of £2.8bn and is part of the team that advises the US Government on its London embassy premises. As a noted expert on ESG and green lease provisions, Ana is recognised as a leading individual in the Legal 500 Green Guide and has spoken about green leases, ESG and sustainability at events hosted by (amongst others) BPF, RICS, JLL and Bisnow as well as having articles published by RICS, Estates Gazette, BE News and CoStar and being quoted in Property Week and the national press. She is also a member of the BPF's Green Lease Working Group , sits on the BENews’ ESG Editorial Advisory Board and is an active supporter of the Net Carbon Zero Standard project. Of particular note, Ana has recently been involved in the creation of a ground-breaking green lease for an extremely innovative award winning client with sustainability at its core, as well as taking the lead on green lease drafting in a panel of law firms acting for FTSE 100 listed global investment manager with assets under management valued in excess of c£500bn. Ana is passionate about driving change and encouraging diversity in the legal profession and the commercial real estate industry. In her EDI role she actively promotes and supports EDI both internally and externally; she is a founding member of the Allbright Club in London, a committee member of RE:Women and is proud to have been included in Bisnow’s recent list of “Women Changing the Face of UK Real Estate – Power Women”.
Declan Power

Declan Power

Declan is Head of Real Estate at Maples Teesdale and is one of the UK’s leading real estate development lawyers working on high profile projects in the offices, industrial/logistics, town centre repositioning, and living sectors, for both developers and institutional funders. Declan's development experience includes retail, offices, mixed use, student accommodation, PRS and industrial/distribution including forward funding, forward purchases, joint venture agreements, development agreements, rent sharing leases, construction aspects and warranties, rights of light, stopping up orders and planning.   Declan has extensive experience of commercial property investment sales and purchases, including portfolio sales and purchases and sales and leasebacks.  Declan is also experienced in commercial property asset management, including new lettings, lease renewals and lease regearings.
Scott Burn

Scott Burn

Scott is a Senior Associate in the commercial real estate team at Maples Teesdale. Scott has experience in non-contentious commercial property work including acquisitions, disposals, development and financing, as well as property management work for a variety of industrial, office and shopping centres in the UK. Scott is the co-head of the Industrial & Logistics sector team at Maples Teesdale with a focus on industrial acquisitions, lettings and financings, and data centres/digital infrastructure leasing, developments and capital transactions.

Team Services

From the way customers shop, to the changes seen on the high street, tenants misusing CVAs and the need to repurpose and rethink use of retail premises, confidence and an openness to innovation is required to meet the needs of the consumer as well as the investor.

As a specialist commercial property law firm, with a dedicated retail team, we partner with you as you make investment decisions and help you maximise the value of your retail assets.

We believe our absolute focus on real estate brings specific benefits for our clients.

At Maples Teesdale the property sector is our sector, it’s all we do and our team is very committed to it. Whilst we work on significant capital transactions such as acquisitions, sales and refinancing exercises, we also  have a broad depth of experience and genuine interest in asset management work; it is very much core to our business. We understand  the critical importance of effective asset management to our clients, we do a lot of this type of work, we enjoy it and we actively seek opportunities to do it.

We pride ourselves on being commercial. We understand that, once our clients have agreed the commercial terms of a transaction, the legal documentation just needs to “get done”, so that the opportunity can be translated into income and value for our clients as soon as possible.

We work with our clients in a collaborative manner – we see ourselves very much as part of their team and work with them, not just for them.

We attend and invite our clients to join us at industry events, dinners and conferences, such as Bisnow events, and industry bodies we support such as REVO and the BPF. We proactively seek to make introductions between our clients and contacts in the retail sector through tailored events and networking opportunities.

We have a sizeable landlord/institutional client base which means we are conscious of and at the forefront of advising on institutional concerns and trends. We work collaboratively with our clients, regularly discussing such issues with them and exploring how to implement best practice for their business. For example recently we have been advising retail clients on sustainability, CVAs, repurposing retail space and the RICS service charge professional statement.