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Publication 17 Jun 2022 · United Kingdom

Highlights of our experience in Bars and Pubs

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  • Enterprise Inns - Various managed investments and the acquisition and disposal of pub estates including the disposal of 370 commercial properties for £348m on which NRR was a bidder.
  • NewRiver REIT - £222.3m sale of Hawthorn Leisure REIT, the entity that holds NewRiver's entire community pub business, to AT Brady Bidco Limited (Admiral Taverns), a wet-led community pub operator with approximately 1,000 pubs across England, Scotland and Wales.
  • Groucho Club - Advising the sellers, including private equity firm Graphite Capital, on the management buy-out of the Groucho Club, the exclusive private members club in Soho, London.
  • Hawthorne Leisure Limited - Acquisition of a portfolio of 275 pubs from Greene King.
  • Punch Pubs - £900m acquisition of Punch Pubs by Fortress Investment Group.
  • Management shareholders - Sale of the InnSpired Group to Punch Taverns plc for £335m.
  • Pubmaster Group - Acting for the shareholders on its sale of the Pubmaster Group to Punch Taverns plc for 1.193bn.
  • The Royal Bank of Scotland - £422 sale of its tenanted pub business to Scottish & Newcastle Pub Company (Management) Limited, a subsidiary of Heineken. 
  • Hill Capital - Acquisition of a stake in New World Pub Company.
  • Vagabond wine bars - Investment from IMBIBA fund.
  • Newincco 1002 - Sale of the entire issued share capital of Searcy Tansley & Co Limited, the operator of champagne bars in London and provider of hospitality services, to WSH and ST Limited. 
  • Clive Chesser and Steve Dando - Acquisition of Punch Pubs by Fortress Investment Group.
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