Mr Oliver s’Jacob > Simmons & Simmons > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Simmons & Simmons
CITYPOINT
ONE ROPEMAKER STREET
LONDON
EC2Y 9SS
England
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Position

Oliver is a partner in our Corporate group in London, and leads the firm’s private equity real estate offering.

With over 20 years of experience, Oliver has worked on a wide variety of transactions in the real estate and infrastructure space, including joint ventures, club deals, major developments, strategic M&A (both public and private) and restructurings. He has guided clients through structuring and executing their real estate investments in most European jurisdictions.

Oliver’s expertise spans most real asset classes, having assisted clients acquire or operate not just traditional property types such as offices, shopping centres, logistics warehouses and residential assets (including student housing), but also real estate-intensive businesses and/or infrastructure assets, such as hotels, hospitals, data centres, schools, science parks and football clubs.

In addition to working on “downstream” real estate and infrastructure investments, Oliver has helped clients with fund formation, establishing new management platforms and “PropTech” investments.

Oliver represents a wide range of clients, including some of the world’s largest private equity real estate firms and other institutional investors, asset managers and property developers.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Real estate > Commercial property: investment

Simmons & Simmons specialises in real estate funds work, advising clients on corporate wrapper deals and joint ventures. The firm’s asset class experience is broad, with experience in office, warehouse, logistics, life science, residential, and mixed-use related matters. John Kelsey leads the practice, and is knowledgeable in structured acquisitions and disposals of investment properties. Ali Crosthwaite contributes to the team’s strength in central London investment work. Matthew Hooton and Jonathon Wilkes focus on corporate wrapper deals. In February 2024, Barry Gross and Oliver s’Jacob joined from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and Morrison Foerster respectively.