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Advising you and your business with our extensive real estate restructuring expertise

We are the UK’s leading real estate restructuring team. Our experience is unrivalled having worked on some of the most high-profile real estate restructuring projects of the last 30 years. We implement strategic and operational restructuring programmes on behalf of our clients in both proactive and reactive scenarios.

£13bn+

real estate advised or transacted

30+

years’ experience within restructuring market

5000

In excess of 5,000 Fixed Charge Receivership appointments.

£6bn+

of loan book workout advice

We provide our clients with a comprehensive suite of real estate services supporting throughout the business or portfolio life cycle, from inception to exit.

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Turnaround Private Equity

We manage risk and generate value from a company’s operational real estate. Providing a full range of property advice at an operational portfolio level and specialising in acquisition and disposal due diligence.

We work directly alongside a lender and their borrower to generate value from real estate holdings. We operate a dual duty of care providing both the expertise and assurances required to all stakeholders.

Working in partnership with our clients, we provide a full range of real estate finance advice. Our work in this area includes refinancing options for individual properties and portfolios, including raising new finance, through to raising debt finance from existing real estate.

To support your team with a real estate-focused skillset and additional capacity in times of change we offer our expertise in interim positions within client organisations. Our work in this area has included support to public sector bodies, further education and private national infrastructure companies.

We carry out real estate due diligence on behalf of both vendors and purchasers of performing and non-performing loan books. Our national team with regional expertise has advised on over £6 billion of real estate assets as part of loan book sales and acquisitions.

We have advised on some of the most prominent retail, F&B and leisure restructuring assignments over the last 30 years. Our work spans leasehold portfolios, providing real-time market-facing intelligence in respect of their occupied estate. This includes estates across the UK and Ireland.

An extensive and diverse client base.

Nampak Limited

Regional

Client: Turnaround private equity
Asset: 180,000 sq ft distribution and office HQ
Role: Lead real estate advisor and debt advisory services
Workflows: Real estate due diligence at the point of business acquisition, real estate debt advisory, investment agency in form of corporate sale and leaseback, transaction management to completion

Rivergate Shopping Centre

Ayrshire

Client: Major UK lender
Asset: Dominant regional shopping centre anchored by Asda and Primark, 353,000 sq. ft. across 62 units
Role: Consensual sale
Workflows: Agency

Debt Advisory / Consensual Workout

East Midlands
Client: Corporate
Asset: Industrial
Role: Restructuring Debt Advisory (RDA)

Workflows: Operating company entered liquidation, with the lender reviewing their position regarding potential options, including enforcement.

Our Restructuring Debt Advisory (RDA) team is engaged by the borrower on a consensual basis.

After short-term asset management, re-finance was secured, achieving full repayment to the lender and equity release to allow further site development.

Interim Support

Regional
Client: Higher education
Asset: UK occupational and investment estate
Role: 18 month interim support alongside the Head of Estates
Workflows: Full operational and investment estate review, asset management plan, asset management initiative implementation

Project Lion

National
Client: Major lender
Asset: 700 commercial & residential properties across the UK sq. ft. across 62 units
Role: Lead real estate advisor
Workflows: Valuation advice of 400 properties for banking regulation compliance and 300 properties in preparation for a loan book sale. Data room preparation and KPI delivery alongside accountancy advisors

High Street Restaurant Chain

National
Client: Company
Asset: 450 occupational leasehold restaurants across the UK
Role: Lead real estate advisor – CVA due diligence
Workflows: Working alongside the exec team and existing estates team in providing sector specialist advice property-by-property basis across the entire UK portfolio

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