Corporate Real Estate and Funds
Overview
We help clients unlock opportunity in corporate real estate and investment funds through legal solutions grounded in market insight and sector depth.
As the real estate investment landscape evolves, clients need advisers who bring global perspective, local insight and emotional intelligence to every mandate. Whether guiding a manager through fund formation or advising investors on complex indirect real estate M&A, our approach always begins with listening.
We advise across the full fund lifecycle – from structuring and capital raising to regulatory compliance, restructuring and exit strategies. We bring Real Perspective by acting for both fund managers and investors, including sovereign wealth funds, corporate and government pension plans, retirement systems and foundations. This insight allows us to anticipate issues on both sides of the investment table and shape smarter strategies.
Our strength lies in our Real Relationships with several of the world’s most active fund managers. We advise across a wide variety of investment vehicles – including private equity, real estate, credit and venture capital funds – and have particular depth in the real estate funds space. By drawing on our global network, we offer seamless multidisciplinary support that spans corporate, finance, tax and regulatory issues.
Directories such as Chambers and Legal 500 consistently recognize our expertise, and many of our clients have trusted us with their legal needs for decades.
With every deal, we focus on delivering clarity, confidence and competitive edge - helping clients navigate complexity and move forward with purpose.
"Exceptional market knowledge from a legal perspective but also from an investor’s position is unsurpassed. Innovations include excellent networking initiatives and a willingness to role sleeves up on industry lobbying initiatives.”
Legal 500 2023
"They have intimate knowledge of the latest transactions, as well as extensive technical and negotiating skills."
Chambers & Partners 2023
"The BCLP real estate funds team are extremely knowledgeable across the full spectrum of onshore and offshore investment vehicles including limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, unit trusts and authorised open-ended funds. They effectively leverage the firm’s multidisciplinary real estate expertise to deliver great results for clients. I view them as a top-tier real estate funds practice."
Legal 500 2023
"Our relationship partner is smart and responsive to our real estate fund needs. We have a collaborative relationship, from the conceptual discussions regarding new fund opportunities through to the detailed drafting and negotiation of documentation with multiple investors."
Legal 500 2023
Meet The Team
Related Capabilities
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Real Estate Finance
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Real Estate
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Private Equity
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M&A & Corporate Finance
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Tax & Private Client
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Corporate
Experience
The team have recently advised:
- KKR, the global investment firm, on their £610m investment in UK-wide BTR projects, including their investment into a new £1.7bn BTR JV platform with Apache Capital which is expected to deliver 4,000 homes.
- The largest UK hotels sale on record – Grange Hotels’ £1bn portfolio sale to Queensgate Investments. The portfolio comprised four hotels in central London.
- Long Harbour (a specialist real estate investment, development and management firm) on its £1bn club fund formation, joint ventures and expansive investment program
- WR Berkley on its sale of the Scalpel for more than £700m and the establishment of the new debt fund management platform, Birchwood Investors
- Pluto Capital on the formation of seven real estate debt funds and the sale of 49% of its investment management platform to USS and the resulting joint venture
- Edge Technology on two joint ventures – a JV with Mitsui Fosun for the acquisition and development of the London Stock Exchange Building, and a JV with Goldman Sachs for the development of a cutting-edge smart building at London Bridge.
- U.S. private equity real estate firm Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors – one of the 50 largest PE firms in the world – on a significant joint venture with GSA/Kinetic to create a new $1 billion debt funding platform (under the Rhize Capital brand) for the European student housing financing market serving experienced PBSA owners, developers and operators in the UK and Europe.
- CBRE Global Investors on the creation of the CBRE UK Property PAIF, including the merger of the real estate portfolios previously held by CBRE UK Property Fund and the Electricity Pension Scheme to create the £1.4bn fund.
- Canary Wharf Group and LandSec on the £1.28bn sale of interests in the fund vehicles holding 20 Fenchurch Street, also known as the Walkie Talkie, an iconic London office building.
- Clearbell Capital on the formation of a series of private equity real estate funds including, most recently, Clearbell Property Partners III which raised commitments of £310m from investors in the US, Australia, Europe, Middle East and South America.
- Unite Students, the UK’s leading manager and developer of student accommodation on its specialist funds and joint ventures with institutional investment partners, including the £2.3 billion Unite UK Student Accommodation Fund, an open-ended non-listed real estate fund.
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