Hotels, retail & leisure
We have a long history of working with businesses, developers and landlords within the retail, hotel and leisure sector. Our lawyers focus on understanding each client’s commercial objectives, culture and style, providing the highest quality legal advice with excellent response times.
Expertise
Hotel developers and operators
We regularly advise on the development and refurbishment of hotels, with particular experience of four and five star hotel developments in the central London market. We also advise on the refinancing and structuring of hotels, as well as day-to-day management issues and disputes.Leisure
We advise on lettings to night clubs, restaurants, cinemas and health clubs, both in mixed-use developments and standalone projects.Business owners
Our corporate team provide expert advice on joint ventures, equity capital market fundraising and IPOs, private equity and complex cross-border M&A, commercial agreements and contracts. Our litigation team are expert at resolving issues when problems occur.Retail
We advise on the development, sale, purchase and management of major shopping centres throughout the UK. We are expert at advising on retail lettings to well-known high street retail brands, luxury brands and large retail warehouse operators.Petrol filling station operators
Our specialist team has been involved in buying and selling most of the petrol filling stations in the UK over the last 20 years. They provide expert advice to petrol filling station clients with complementary roadside developments in both the retail and food sectors.
Track Record
- Liverpool ONE - a £1 billion, 42 acre, award winning scheme
comprising 130,000 square metres of retail space, 160 shops, a
multi-screen cinema and more than 20 restaurants.
- The development of a grade II listed Art Deco building on
Balderton Street in Mayfair into a luxury, boutique hotel with a
unique habitable sculpture by Antony Gormley and a new destination
restaurant by the owners of The Wolseley.
- The acquisition and development of The Berners Hotel, London W1
for Marriott. The hotel is expected to open in 2013 as one of
Marriott's new exciting boutique hotels, EDITION, the first such
brand in London.
- The purchase and leaseback of a portfolio of seven Premier Inn
hotel sites with ancillary pub/restaurants at a total price of over
£50 million for a substantial pension fund.
- A joint venture between a substantial land owner and a major
hotel chain for a new 220 bedroom development in central
London.
- Ongoing advice on a disposal programme of petrol filling
station sites and the structure of the portfolio going forward,
future redevelopments including complementary roadside developments
in both the retail and food sectors and the grants of leases
to major supermarkets and stand-alone convenience stores.
- Festival Place Basingstoke - an award winning £300 million
regional retail destination comprising over one million square feet
of retail space comprising over 200 shops, restaurants, bars, a
multi-screen cinema, a sports centre and a nightclub.
- Fosse Park Leicester - acquisition of a shopping centre in the
Midlands with over 30 stores.
- The refinancing of over £300 million of hotel debt.
- Anti-corruption training for an international hotels
group.
- Advising in proceedings based on the Hotel Proprietors
Act.