Linklaters and Shoosmiths collaborate on London portfolio deal for Brunswick
February, 2018 - Nottingham, England
Linklaters LLP and Shoosmiths LLP both acted for the UK arm of Nordic Investment Firm Brunswick Real Estate on its first acquisition in its Greater London focused strategy – a mixed use portfolio of properties in London and the South East (including PRS blocks, two business centres and a number of Retail/Leisure units).
The deal was completed in a challenging 6 week timeframe and involved a cross office and cross discipline team from Shoosmiths real estate, corporate, commercial and employment teams, led by Real Estate Partners David Morley and Matthew Kenwood.
The Linklaters team, which led on the corporate acquisition, transaction structuring and financing aspects of the Transaction, was fronted by real estate M&A partner, Tom Watkins and finance partner, Scott Simpson.
Shoosmiths partner, David Morley, commented: “This was a fantastic deal to be involved in. The decision to use both us and Linklaters was entirely driven by the Brunswick team who had prior experience of working with both our firms and had a clear understanding of the respective roles they wanted us to perform and it was great to see both our teams working seamlessly together on this deal.”
Shoosmiths' national real estate team services a wide variety of clients on real estate, construction, planning, property litigation and environmental issues. Clients range from commercial and residential developers to investors, major corporate occupiers and public sector bodies. Shoosmiths has recently been crowned Real Estate Team of the Year (Regional) by the reference-led Legal 500 Directory for 2017.
