Businesses looking to get more from their real estate

We advise and support a wide range of businesses on ways to get the most out of their real estate. This could be:

Sale and leaseback (for operationally critical assets)
Vacant possession sales (for redundant properties)
Secured debt structuring
Development funding
Sophisticated financial structuring
Cashflow/P&L/Balance Sheet analysis for potential transactions

Release Capital without operational disruption

Our Expertise

Your expertise is making critical components, assembling goods for consumers, extracting raw materials. That is where your focus should be.

Our expertise is in real estate so let us bring that to your business.

Existing Ownership Review

Reviewing your owned property assets and highlighting the opportunities to release value and turn it into working capital

Matching up solutions with your operational needs and what is important to your business

Funding New Development

Helping you to manage capital constraints and utilise 3rd party capital to deliver new property projects

General Property Advisory

Lean on our combined 30 year experience of working across the UK, Europe and Globally. Whatever the challenge, we've probably seen it and solved it before

Syngenta

Multi-year Capital Raise to support IPO

Syngenta are a global agri-chemical company who are leaders in their field. We have supported Syngenta on a sale and leaseback programme across the UK, Europe and North America raising in excess of $1.7bn of proceeds. Providing real estate specific accounting support to in house teams in addition to marketing and liaising with investors to drive Syngenta's strategy forwards.

Advised and executed on:

long term sales strategy to create precedence pricing
accounting impact of leases
marketing and sales of the opportunities to pre-screened investors

RKW

Sale and leaseback

RKW Group undertook a sale and leaseback to diversify its capital stack - refinancing debt which was maturing in the short-term with proceeds from the sale and leaseback. This introduced a long-term form of financing which was covenant-lite and removed refinancing risk and exposure to unpredictable interest rates. The portfolio included three specialist manufacturing and distribution facilities across Germany.

Supported and executed:

marketing and sales of the opportunities to pre-screened investors
structuring leases which balanced operational requirements with investor requirements
managed an efficient closing process with multiple conditions needing to be met including local authority ere-emption rights

Audley Retirement Villages

Income strip (long term sale and leaseback with a £1 buy back option at the end)

Audley were looking to acquire additional sites to expand the number of retirement villages they own. We looked at the performance of stabilised and stabilising sites and built a portfolio that could be funded via a long lease with an option to buy the freehold back for £1 at the end of the lease.

Advised and executed:

- deal structuring to reflect accounting requirements, legislation regarding enfranchisement and market demand

- complex deal with high quality assets in different stages of maturity

- introducing investors to a relatively nascent sector in the UK

Bank of America

Sale and partial leaseback

Having occupied this site in Bromley for over 40 years, Bank of America were no longer using the full footprint of the building. We advised and executed a sale of the building to an office investor and simultaneously entered into a lease of part to consolidate their occupation into the lower four floors. Partial leasebacks are highly complex transactions that require extensive experience to execute.

Key areas of focus:
- continuity of operations

- negotiating the TSA

- ensuring ongoing flexibility to adjust the space to their needs