Chris leads our dedicated Corporate Real Estate practice in London and is a partner in the firm’s Global Corporate Group.
Chris has a multifaceted practice with a particular focus on delivering big-ticket, complex real estate deals (from bilateral and auction acquisitions and disposals, through to JVs, club deals, funds, opco/propco structures and sale-and-leasebacks) often on a cross-border basis.
He is sector-agnostic, but with particular expertise in European PBSA (having advised on upwards of £1 billion of deals in this space across the UK, Spain and Portugal in the last couple of years) and hotels and leisure (where he advises on hotel management and franchise arrangements, as well as M&A).
Chris also has a particular focus on Middle Eastern capital, having previously spent several years in the UAE, where he led the Corporate Real Estate team of another global top tier law firm, acting on a number of the region’s largest outbound real estate M&A deals and winning a number of industry awards during that time.
Chris has executed deals across the UK, Middle East, United States, Continental Europe, Africa and the Far East.
His clients include REITs, PERE funds, asset managers, financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds, hotel owners and operators, and property developers.
