Our team, in conjunction with the wider PwC Real Estate Network, is uniquely placed to provide a seamless client experience for tax efficient commercial property solutions. Our Real Estate Network comprises a team of more than 500 highly skilled and experienced professionals including lawyers, accountants, analysts, consultants, tax and corporate finance specialists as well as senior executives with hands on experience at the very top of the industry.
Our team can advise on a diverse range of commercial real estate functions from, acquisitions and disposals, real estate finance, planning, to bespoke pre-transaction advice and asset management. We also have significant success in establishing and structuring a UK real estate presence for foreign companies and investors and extensive experience with stressed and distressed real estate advice, restructuring and sales.
Our team regularly acts for large institutional landlords, major banks and lenders, commercial and residential developers, private businesses, listed corporations, pension and investment funds, well-known high street retailers, private family offices, private health care providers, insolvency practitioners, the NHS and other public sector bodies.
Our Key Real Estate Services
Property Acquisitions / Disposals
We advise occupiers and investors on strategy and implementation of complex property acquisitions including multi-tenanted property due diligence and bespoke title reports.
In addition, we advise on lease negotiation, value realisation, cost mitigation, managing onerous and contingent lease liabilities. We also act for office, retail and leisure clients and landed estates for lease renewals, licences, portfolio reviews and due diligence exercises.
We empower your investment decisions when updating your property portfolio including lease re-gear portfolios, sale and leaseback strategies.
Planning and Development
We offer a unique planning capability that is integrated with our real estate services. This includes section 106 agreements and associated deeds of variation for both residential and commercial developments. We also undertake planning due diligence to identify onerous and outstanding planning conditions and obligations which enables us to expertly advise on planning aspects of corporate and banking transactions.
We also carry out bespoke due diligence for developers of large plots of land proposed for development, identifying site constraints and putting forward solutions to deal with issues which may otherwise impact proposed schemes. We draft and negotiate agreements for sale, option and development agreements subject to planning, acting for both land owners and developers.
Real Estate Finance
Our team has significant experience in dealing with both LMA and bespoke short term lending transactions acting for both lenders and borrowers in connection with acquisition, refinance and development finance transactions.
This includes carrying out full due diligence, reviewing and preparing CLLS certificates of title, preparing bespoke reports on title, undertaking pre-appointment security reviews, consents to dealing, releases and substituted security.
Stressed/Distressed Real Estate
We are engaged by lenders and insolvency practitioners to provide pre-appointment advice on potential enforcement and value add strategies. We also assist in the relocation of assets within a group company structure to add resale value and we provide disposal strategies, including auction and private treaty sales.
What sets us apart
- Seamless Experience
- Global Footprint
- Technology Driven Solutions
Seamless Experience
Our close links to PwC’s other multidisciplinary specialists across tax, accounting, regulatory, debt advisory, valuations, consultancy, corporate finance and insolvency mean that our Legal Real Estate team are able to leverage their experience and knowledge to offer a truly ‘one-stop shop’ for all a client needs.
Our clients will benefit from receiving legal advice in a tax efficient manner which traditionally would be provided by separate professional firms.
As a result, clients will benefit from a seamless and integrated client experience between tax advisors and legal expertise. This ultimately reduces delays in communication and increases cost effectiveness.
Global Footprint
With dedicated real estate legal capabilities over 80 countries, our UK based team can truly leverage the Global Legal Business Solutions network to service cross border projects for clients with multi-jurisdictional portfolios with one point of contact.
Technology Driven Solutions
Being part of the wider PwC Real Estate Network empowers our team with the ability to leverage PwC Operate, the firm’s service delivery to cost effectively resource large scale due diligence projects.
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