Practice Expertise

  • Banking and Finance
  • Corporate
  • Corporate Structuring
  • Fund Finance

Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Finance
  • Corporate
  • Corporate Structuring
  • Fund Finance
  • Corporate Regulation and Compliance
  • Cybersecurity and Data Protection
  • Debt Funds
  • Fund Formation
  • Fund Listings
  • Funds Regulation and Compliance
  • Funds Strategies and Asset Classes
  • Hedge Funds
  • Infrastructure Funds
  • Investment Business
  • Investment Funds
  • Investment Managers
  • IPOs and Equity Capital Markets
  • Joint Ventures
  • Listed Funds
  • Listing REITs
  • Listing Services
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Private Equity Funds
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Real Estate Funds
  • Restructuring and Winding Up
  • The International Stock Exchange
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Profile

Claire advises clients in respect of corporate, jersey funds and banking matters.

Her principal practice area is corporate real estate and jersey funds (both listed and non-listed). Claire has acted on numerous fund structurings and re-structurings, co-investments and portfolio acquisitions and refinancings. She acts mainly borrower/sponsor side on real estate finance transactions as well as for buyer and seller on M&A matters.


Claire's key clients include:


  • Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate plc;

  • M7 Real Estate Ltd;

  • The Blackstone Group;

  • Harbert Management Corporation;

  • Supermarket Income REIT plc;

  • Realty Income Corporation


  • Her transactions of note include advising on the Jersey aspects of:

    1. Blackstone's €21 million recapitalisation of Mileway, a pan European logistics company.
    2. M7's Real Estate Ltd's acquisition of a £156.9 million UK retail parks portfolio
    3. Harbert Management Corporation's sale of two of the UK's best known industrial estates for £480 million to Blackstone;
    4. Realty Income Corporation's acquisition of 12 properties from a JV of J. Sainsbury's and British Land for £429 million;
    5. Blackstone Capital and Blackstone Real Estate's acquisition of Bourne Leisure, a UK based leisure and holiday company.

    Areas of Practice

    • Banking and Finance
    • Corporate
    • Corporate Structuring
    • Fund Finance
    • Corporate Regulation and Compliance
    • Cybersecurity and Data Protection
    • Debt Funds
    • Fund Formation
    • Fund Listings
    • Funds Regulation and Compliance
    • Funds Strategies and Asset Classes
    • Hedge Funds
    • Infrastructure Funds
    • Investment Business
    • Investment Funds
    • Investment Managers
    • IPOs and Equity Capital Markets
    • Joint Ventures
    • Listed Funds
    • Listing REITs
    • Listing Services
    • Mergers and Acquisitions
    • Private Equity Funds
    • Real Estate Finance
    • Real Estate Funds
    • Restructuring and Winding Up
    • The International Stock Exchange

    Professional Career

    Significant Accomplishments

    Claire qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2005 (currently non-practising) working at London law firm Memery Crystal. She has been at Carey Olsen since 2006 and qualified as a Jersey advocate in 2011. In 2010 Claire spent four months on secondment at top PRC law firm King & Wood’s Shanghai office.

    Claire obtained her LLB and LPC at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University.

    Recent Experience



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