With a domestic and international client base, BHSM LLP incorporating OBH Partners is geared to support on the full array of commercial and residential real estate mandates, covering construction projects, renewable energy issues, environment and planning matters, and private client work. The group is jointly spearheaded by Giles Smyth, who is a key contact for property and banking related matters, and Rob Gibbons, who is particularly adept in handling the management of real estate and office portfolios, with additional expertise in the health and social care spaces. Keith Doyle is also an important contact within the group.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Rob Gibbons is extremely competent and provides an incredible level of access and prompt professional service.’
- ‘BHSM is a mid-tier firm that attends to clients in a personalised and dedicated manner. The client is treated as important and all requests accommodated. Direct partner access and quick turnaround times.’
- ‘Trea McGuinness brings a personalised and kind manner that helps clients navigate sensitive and difficult circumstances when that occasion for requiring advice is highly emotive.’
- ‘I can always rely on a member of the team returning a call/query by phone or e-mail promptly without the need for follow-up calls or e-mails.'
- ‘Extremely professional at all levels and attention to detail is the best I have encountered in all my years of dealing in property.'
Key clients
- Kerry Hanaphy Limited
- Washglade Limited
- Valley Healthcare
- Real IS AG
- Harcourt Developments Limited
- Clopen Capital
- Axpo UK Limited
Work highlights
Advising a major operator of service stations in Ireland on the sale of a portfolio of prominent service stations in the Dublin area to Maxol.
Advised Clopen Capital on the sale of a development site at 21 – 24 Bolton Street Dublin 1 with planning permission for the development of a 90-bedroom hotel.
Advised Kerry Hanaphy Limited on its expansion into larger premises in City West Shopping Centre, County Dublin and new premises in Blackpool Shopping Centre, County Cork.
Practice head
Giles Smyth; Rob Gibbons
Other key lawyers
Keith Doyle; Trea McGuinness