Real Estate

We advise private equity real estate investors, funds, lenders, strategic capital partners, and developers on sophisticated real estate transactions across the full investment lifecycle.

Our global Real Estate group of 80+ core real estate lawyers across 18 offices advise private equity real estate investors, investment funds, institutional owners, REITs, lenders, operators, strategic investors, and developers on complex transactions across the full investment lifecycle of real estate ownership.

We support clients from portfolio formation and direct asset acquisition through asset operation, development, financing, leasing, restructuring, distressed investment, and exit.

Our experience spans debt and equity investments, secured lending, structured real estate income, portfolio servicing, sale and leasebacks, dispositions, development projects, ground leasing, and property finance matters across multiple jurisdictions. We bring an investment-led perspective to each mandate, aligning real estate execution with capital strategy, asset performance, and value creation.

We work across the asset classes most relevant to private capital, including offices, logistics and warehousing, retail, hospitality and hotels, senior housing and assisted living, health care and social infrastructure, student accommodation, data centers, mixed-use schemes, renewable energy, leisure, and large-scale development projects.

Clients turn to us for commercially focused, technically strong, and globally coordinated advice on their most complex real estate strategies. Whether deploying capital, financing or restructuring a portfolio, managing operating assets, or exiting an investment, Reed Smith’s global Real Estate team delivers practical solutions for premier real estate investors.

“Deep bench, exceptional partner knowledge, tremendous resources and quality work-product.”

The Legal 500 US – U.S. Nationwide Real Estate

“Reed Smith are available and responsive, from associate through to partners. They apply a common-sense and commercial approach to problem solving, backed up with deep technical knowledge.”

Chambers UK – London – Real Estate: £150 million and above

“Autonomy, efficiency and initiative drive their assistance to foreign clients in real estate matters, as was my case.”

The Legal 500 EMEA – France – Real Estate

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