Highlights of our Experience in Real Estate Occupiers in the UK

• Harvey Nichols on plans for the relocation and doubling in size of anchor tenant’s Harvey Nichols store in The Mailbox, Birmingham.
• Aviva Investors on their lease to Sainsbury's Bank of 3 Lochside Avenue Edinburgh Park for their new headquarters in Edinburgh - the largest private sector lease deal in the capital in 10 years.
• Sainsbury’s on a wide range of development sites involving planning applications, advice on compulsory purchase orders, store extensions, section 106 and section 278 agreements, and judicial review;
  • complex new store development sites including major London regeneration projects at Fulham Wharf and Nine Elms. 
  • the acquisitions of two portfolios comprising 33 stores from Somerfield.
• Uniqlo on the letting of its new London headquarters.
• Imperial College on the development and occupation of student accommodation on sites in Clapham, Acton and Imperial West, White City.
• Virgin Atlantic on the lease of Abstract’s 110,545 sq. ft. Leonardo development in Manor Royal, Crawley, relocating from their current headquarters at Crawley Business Quarter.
• Waterford Wedgwood Royal Dalton on the transfer of the lease of the Wedgwood Museum which held the Wedgwood collection, after the WWRD Trust went into administration due to inheriting pension fund liabilities. CMS was instructed by WWRD to provide advice on the transfer of the lease of the museum to WWRD.
• BT on the GBP 92m sale of Keybridge House in London To Mount Anvil for redevelopment as a mixed-use scheme with 415 residential units in two towers (of which one will be the tallest brick clad residential tower in the UK) and a series of mansion blocks.
• Brake Bros on the distribution regional network strategy, including the development and letting of four state-of-the-art facilities comprising 1m square feet, and the sale and leaseback of further distribution facilities.

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