Peter Kershaw > Addleshaw Goddard > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile

Addleshaw Goddard
1 ST PETER'S SQUARE
MANCHESTER
M2 3DE
England
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Work Department

Real estate.

Position

Peter leads the Manchester real estate team and has a wealth of experience across various sectors. He is a focused and committed advisor, transacts large complex deals and has a proven track record of working collaboratively with clients’ internal and external teams to originate new processes and protocols to streamline and improve working practices.

Peter advises investors, developers, financiers, corporate occupiers and public bodies. He has expertise in all real estate markets and their derivatives at every stage of the economic/political cycle. He understands market trends and keeps close to policy issues

As well as being an Account Partner for Hermes/ MEPC, Sainsbury’s and Standard Life, Peter’s experience includes:

  • Advising corporate occupier clients on root and branch reviews of their procurement processes regarding their interactions with intermediaries and their process for the acquisition, management and disposal of properties, leading to new systems and ways of working
  • Advising on the development of Wellington Place in Leeds, 1.5million sq ft of commercial, retail, leisure and residential space and one of the largest and most prestigious new city centre business quarters in Europe
  • Working with clients on constructing new propositions, including exposition of regulatory matters and the performance of letting documents, to engage better with the market

Peter is a founding Member of LandAid’s North West Board.

Career

Articled Addleshaw Booth & Co; qualified 1989; Addleshaw Booth & Co (now Addleshaw Goddard) 1987-96; partner 1996 to date.

Memberships

Law Society of England and Wales; board member of North West Property Investment Forum.

Education

Saddleworth Secondary School; Leicester University; Chester College of Law (1986 LLB).

Leisure

Family time, mountain biking and cooking.

Lawyer Rankings

North West > Real estate > Commercial property: Manchester

(Hall of Fame)

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Addleshaw Goddard‘s commercial property practice is well-known for handling complex and high-value matters for its diverse client base, which notably features National Grid Group of Companies, Airport City Manchester and Access to Music Limited. Nancy McGuire heads the practice, and key figures within the team include Daniel Sweeney who is noted as being the ‘go-to advisor for numerous retail and leisure operators’; Catherine Fearnhead who is experienced advising on complex strategic projects and development matters; Paul Barnard who harnesses a specialism in key acquisition matters; and Vicky Niescier. Peter Kershaw stands out due to his transactional expertise, while Lucy Butterworth regularly advises on high-value matters at both local and national scale.