Kay Desai > Gowling WLG > Birmingham, England > Lawyer Profile
Gowling WLG Offices
TWO SNOWHILL
BIRMINGHAM
B4 6WR
England
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Kay Desai
Work Department
Real Estate; Asset Management; Retail
Position
Legal Director
Career
Kay Desai helps clients to acquire, dispose and manage occupational real estate with a quick turnaround and minimal fuss.
Much of Kay’s work is for retailers, assisting with often large-scale and fast-paced acquisitions and disposal programmes. Delivering to tight timescales is usually key to her client’s business objectives, from achieving a generally greater high street presence to expanding in strategic locations. Kay’s understanding of the commercial drivers behind any transaction means she can focus on getting the deal agreed while protecting her client’s position.
Her extensive experience means she is well-placed to help streamline the acquisition and disposal process, helping clients develop efficient overall procedures to achieve their targets and, in the case of acquisitions, get up and trading as quickly as possible.
Kay has also advised a number of energy sector clients on strategic acquisitions, worked alongside our Corporate team to assist with the multi-faceted property issues arising from wider corporate transactions and acted for various landowners in complex conditional sales.
Clients
A number of name brands and retailers, leisure and other corporate occupiers, such as Young’s Brewery, Fat Face, B&Q, Jaegar, Crew Clothing, Birdseye, Poundland, Dudley Building Society and the Midcounties Co-op.
Experience
Working with a UK Building Society on their relocation to new headquarters in order to accommodate company growth.
Helping a national pub chain with a number of multi-million pound acquisitions of new premises, including advising when they are acquiring new builds with continuing development obligations.
Acting for a large telecommunications retailer on not only a major project involving the acquisition of 118 shops in 12 months but also advising on the acquisition of a number of properties from a company in administration. The project was turned around on a very impressive timescale, allowing our client to achieve a greater high street presence.
Acting for a household name food brand in a refinancing of their factory sites in the UK, incorporating complex title reviews.
Assisting one of the UK’s largest co-operatives with the acquisition of seven stores as going concerns worth £8.64 million and more recently in respect of a complex sale and leaseback.
Working with a number of retailers, including Fat Face, Jaeger, Crew Clothing and Poundland, on major store acquisitions, and disposals.
Leading the client relationship with companies like Jaeger and Young & Co’s Brewery PLC.
Languages
English, Punjabi
Lawyer Rankings
London > Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
With notable strength in industrial, mixed-use, regeneration and retail development schemes, the full-service real estate team at Gowling WLG
excels in the energy sector. The practice is also entrusted by occupiers, property REITS and regeneration authorities with the buying and selling, management and letting of assets. Chris Hunt oversees the real estate department and is proficient in office headquarter acquisitions and disposals, the real estate aspects of corporate M&A and retail expansion programmes. Head of the corporate occupier group Helen Emmerson caters to life science labs, retail, and supermarket leasing mandates, and Felicity Lindsay is well-versed in direct and indirect office investment transactions, as well as office developments and lettings. Kay Desai advises corporate occupiers in the retail and leisure sectors, while Nick Mumby is a key contact for debt-funds, family run developers and international private equity firms. Kate Cunningham advises private and public sector clients on mixed-use and transport-oriented regeneration projects and Dan Gwilliam is seasoned in advising institutional investors.
London > Real estate > Commercial property: development
With notable strength in industrial, mixed-use, regeneration and retail development schemes, the full-service real estate team at Gowling WLG excels in the energy sector. The practice is also entrusted by occupiers, property REITS and regeneration authorities with the buying and selling, management and letting of assets. Chris Hunt oversees the real estate department and is proficient in office headquarter acquisitions and disposals, the real estate aspects of corporate M&A and retail expansion programmes. Head of the corporate occupier group Helen Emmerson caters to life science labs, retail, and supermarket leasing mandates, and Felicity Lindsay is well-versed in direct and indirect office investment transactions, as well as office developments and lettings. Kay Desai advises corporate occupiers in the retail and leisure sectors, while Nick Mumby is a key contact for debt-funds, family run developers and international private equity firms. Kate Cunningham advises private and public sector clients on mixed-use and transport-oriented regeneration projects and Dan Gwilliam is seasoned in advising institutional investors.
London > Real estate > Commercial property: investment
With notable strength in industrial, mixed-use, regeneration and retail development schemes, the full-service real estate team at Gowling WLG excels in the energy sector. The practice is also entrusted by occupiers, property REITS and regeneration authorities with the buying and selling, management and letting of assets. Chris Hunt oversees the real estate department and is proficient in office headquarter acquisitions and disposals, the real estate aspects of corporate M&A and retail expansion programmes. Head of the corporate occupier group Helen Emmerson caters to life science labs, retail, and supermarket leasing mandates, and Felicity Lindsay is well-versed in direct and indirect office investment transactions, as well as office developments and lettings. Kay Desai advises corporate occupiers in the retail and leisure sectors, while Nick Mumby is a key contact for debt-funds, family run developers and international private equity firms. Kate Cunningham advises private and public sector clients on mixed-use and transport-oriented regeneration projects and Dan Gwilliam is seasoned in advising institutional investors.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Birmingham
- Real estate > Commercial property: Birmingham
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Birmingham
- Employment > Employment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy, project finance and PFI
- Public sector > Health
- Employment > Health and safety
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Real estate > Environment
- Employment > Pensions
- Transport