Leveraging its extensive national and global reach, the real estate team at Dentons maintains a reputation for its work in the commercial property field, supporting multi-national clients active in the retail, development, house-building, infrastructure, regeneration, portfolios, real estate finance, and investment industries. Robert Wyatt heads the team, leveraging extensive experience in the field to support both public and private sector clients with property investment and lending. Recognised as a premier choice for clients in the retail, rail, and public sector is Daniel Lowen; his recent workload includes development acquisitions, sale and leaseback programmes, and financing work.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘The real estate team at Dentons is an exceptionally friendly and highly professional team. They are experts in their fields, are efficient and value client satisfaction.’

  • ‘I have worked with Robert Wyatt for over 10 years and he is a very talented lawyer. His team regularly praise him as a supportive supervisor. His expertise is second to none. He values us as clients and regularly goes above and beyond to serve us.'

  • 'Aimee Tusting has been instrumental in many transactions over the last few years, and especially during the last 2 years. We cannot praise them enough.’

Key clients

  • John Lewis Partnership
  • DS Smith Packaging
  • Taylor Wimpey
  • Sainsbury's Supermarkets Limited
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Avis
  • Group 1 Automotive
  • HSBC UK Bank Plc
  • Mulberry Homes
  • National Westminster Bank Plc

Work highlights

Advised Group 1 Automotive on the real estate aspects its  £346m acquisition of Inchcape's UK dealerships.
Advised a client on the property aspects of financing to a UK Borrower to be secured, amongst other aspects, by a legal mortgage over academic property in London.
Advised Waitrose on all aspects of its first new store for 6 years, and the first step in its focus on growing its convenience store portfolio.

Lawyers

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Practice head

Robert Wyatt

Other key lawyers

Daniel Lowen; Aimee Tusting