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Alan Corcoran
Work Department
Partner, Real Estate
Position
Alan Corcoran is a real estate lawyer in Shoosmiths’ national real estate team. Alan advises on a range of commercial property related matters including investment and development work, site assembly, conditional sale and purchase agreements and options, together with broad asset management and property finance experience.
His recent project experience includes advising long standing client, McKay Securities PLC, on the development and pre-let to St James Wealth of its 60,000 sq ft office development in Lombard Street, London, and the subject to planning disposal of a 1.1 acre site in Woking to Watkin Jones who plan to construct 350 build to rent apartments on the site.
Alan also led the team which advised McKay on the real estate aspects of its recent £180 million revolving credit facility.
Alan is recognised as a leader in his field of real estate by both Chambers and Partners and Legal 500. He has recently been noted in The Legal 500 Hall of Fame which highlights individuals who have received consistent praise by their clients for continued excellence. The Hall of Fame highlights, to clients, the law firm partners who are at the pinnacle of the profession as one of the elite leading lawyers for six consecutive years.
Career
Alan heads up the Shoosmiths’ Southern Real Estate team comprising Partners and legal advisers based in Milton Keynes, Reading and Southampton. He has been a partner at Shoosmiths for 15 years and involved in real estate for 25 years.
Alan is also a Notary Public and a member of the Shoosmiths Private Wealth team.
Education
Newcastle Polytechnic (LLB Hons 2(1)).
Leisure
Running, cinema, theatre, cooking.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Real estate > Commercial property: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
(Hall of Fame)Shoosmiths LLP‘s commercial property offering spans high-value investment projects, house building and strategic land matters on behalf of a high-end client list that comprises major automotive brands and real estate investment funds. Nathan Rees chairs the practice, representing property investors on acquisitions, disposals, and financing transactions. Head of the southern real estate offering Alan Corcoran remains an experienced practitioner in the space with an extensive track record in the investment and corporate occupancy fields. Daniel Halstead and Ben Pariser come highly recommended as key names in the living and housebuilding sectors, respectively. Legal director Marcus Devanny represents institutional investment funds, property funds and corporate occupiers on the full range of cases.
Lawyer Rankings
- Commercial property: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40 South East > Real estate
- Hall of Fame South East > Real estate > Commercial property: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Hampshire
- Real estate > Commercial property: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Real estate > Commercial property: Hampshire
- Real estate > Commercial property: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Hampshire
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Employment: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Real estate > Environment and planning
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Employment > Health and safety
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Employment > Pensions
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx