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MANCHESTER
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Patrick Duffy

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Real Estate North

Position

Patrick is a partner in Shoosmiths’ real estate team, with over 30 years’ experience in advising on large-scale high profile town and city centre regeneration schemes, including residential and commercial development matters, as well as real estate funding and investment.

Patrick has advised on numerous portfolio investment acquisitions, especially of shopping centre and leisure schemes, and has a particular expertise in offshore tax driven investment acquisitions.

In particular, Patrick’s experience includes:

  • Supporting Bruntwood with its public/private joint venture with Bury Council and the subsequent acquisition of a shopping centre in Bury town centre.
  • Advising on the acquisition funding and development agreements for the Birmingham Innovation Centre at Birmingham University.
  • Advising on the real estate aspects of a refinancing deal for the development of No. 1 Old Trafford.
  • Advising on the St Michael’s development in Manchester City Centre.
  • Advising on the multimillion

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North West > Real estate > Commercial property: Manchester

The cohort at Shoosmiths LLP has strong abilities advising on high-value matters across the range of commercial property issues. It is experienced in handling high-value sales and acquisitions, as well as the funding and development of significant structures in Manchester. Andrew Pattinson leads the team. Significant team changes include the arrival of partner Patrick Duffy and legal director Emma Tonge, both from Addleshaw Goddard in August 2022. Additionally, December 2022 marked the departure of partners Lisa On-Iam and Wayne Nash, whilst January 2023 marked the departures of partners Vaqas Farooq and Daniel Hargreaves, all of whom moved to Deloitte LLP.

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