Property

Kennedys’ real estate team is part of the Commercial division which combines with our Banking, Company and Commercial, Insolvency and Litigation Teams to provide a comprehensive service to meet the diverse and changing requirements of our clients. It is based in London, headed up by partner Jeremy Palmer. Kennedys also benefits from real estate capability in Spain, Hong Kong and Dubai.

Services

The team covers the whole spectrum of property related working including:

• Asset Management
• Auctions
• Banking
• Corporate Real Estate
• Development
• Development agreements
• Dispute Resolution
• Estate management
• Institutional freehold and leasehold investments
• Investment (Acquisitions and Disposals)
• Landlord and tenant
• Nursing homes and healthcare premises
• Planning agreements and planning advice
• Planning and Rights of Light
• Project finance
• Realisations for receivers, liquidators and administrators
• Residential acquisitions for UK and international investors/residents
• Residential developments
• Re-structuring, insolvency and impaired assets
• Retail, office and industrial lettings
• Secured lending

Clients of the team include banks, developers, investors, house builders, health trusts, high net worth individuals, hoteliers, surveyors, landlords, tenants and managing agents, limited partnerships, insolvency practitioners, pension funds, professional practices, property companies and trading companies.

Recent examples of our work:

Investment

• UK property company - DVLA pre-let development sites
• Danish investors - Shopping centres, supermarkets, retail and industrial portfolios
• Offshore company - Supermarket and leisure scheme
• Pension fund - Midlands Shopping Centre disposal
• Music publishing company - industrial estate in Bury St Edmunds
• Investor - Frozen food storage facility
• International insurance company - joint venture and limited liability partnership
• Investor - Offshore trusts and property investments overseas projects, structuring inward investments
  into the UK and structuring and asset management
• Foreign Exchange Distribution Joint Venture
• Investor - Substantial residential and agricultural estate in Suffolk

Development

• Irish Bank - Landmark listed site in South London
• Investor - 12 storey multi use central London development
• Training provider - University teaching and residential facility in Newcastle and Exeter
• National house builder - large residential development in Kent
• Football club - new stadium in Peterborough
• Investor - Hotel and commercial development in Liverpool
• Mixed use developments - retail and private and social housing

Lettings

• Property fund - Knightsbridge office building to hedge fund
• Music Company tenant - retail and warehouse units - various UK high street and retail park
  locations
• NHS Trust - Hospital ward for private patient unit to healthcare provider in Essex

Overseas

• Private investor - Integrated resort scheme comprising 200 villas and a hotel and related facilities in Mauritius.
• Special purpose vehicle - five star deluxe hotel in Accra, Ghana
• Private investment company - portfolio of mixed use properties in New York

Dispute Resolution

• Landlord & Tenant commercial property disputes
• Property contract disputes
• Dilapidations claims
• Settlement Agreements of insurance claims for business interruption