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Helen Balliger

Partner

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
1-3 Charter Square
Sheffield
S1 4HS
United Kingdom
Languages English

Helen Balliger is a Real Estate Partner with around 14 years’ experience advising a range of real estate clients including investors and developers on a wide range of transactions across multiple sectors. She routinely deals with major asset acquisitions and disposals, financing and ongoing asset management matters across all asset classes, including offices, mixed use, retail and industrial.  In recent years she has developed a particular expertise advising on matters involving ‘last-mile’ logistical assets.

Helen joined CMS in October 2022, having previously been a partner in DWF’s Leeds office.

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Relevant experience

  • Sole legal adviser to a major industrial and ‘last-mile’ logistics client, responsible for all asset management matters.  This included leading on a CLLS Section 5 reporting exercise of 439 leases completed within two weeks for a financing exercise.
  • Acquisition and subsequent financing of 2 industrial units for GBP 104m for a US private equity investor.
  • Acquisition of City of London office space for a German insurance fund for GBP 76.5m.
  • Restructuring of a GBP 600m facility security against a portfolio of hotels for a receiver and lender.
  • Acquisition of a mixe-use office and retail building in the City of London for cGBP 50m.
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Education

  • 2008 – Qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales.
  • 2006 – Legal Practice Course (with distinction), College of Law, York.
  • 2005 – LLB, Newcastle University, Newcastle.
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Expertise

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