Investment Funds: Real Estate
UK Guide 2025 : UK-wide
Band 3
Contact number
(020) 3349 8700About
Provided by Greenberg Traurig, LLP
The team acts for some of the most prominent fund managers, institutional investors, and family offices. Alongside our global top-tier tax, regulatory and finance teams, we focus on providing market-leading legal advice in the following key areas:
Investment fund formation: structure and establish investment funds across the real estate sector, both domestically and internationally, for some of the largest and most prestigious fund managers in the industry.
Joint ventures and partnerships: structure strategic joint ventures, programmatic partnerships and subsidiary structures for property investment between managers, institutional investors, lenders, developers, REITs, and private owners, involving single assets and real estate portfolios.
Acquisitions and disposals: structure, negotiate and consummate complex international and domestic real estate acquisitions, sales of strategic assets and complex re-capitalisation transactions for listed, unlisted, controlled, and privately-owned real estate companies in Europe.
Platform creation: structure and establish manager platforms for groups of individuals in the real estate sector and their financial backers, advising on all aspects of the platform creation including the optimal tax and regulatory structure for the management team, their financial backers and any third party investors.
Chambers Review
Greenberg Traurig maintains a well-developed practice that focuses on providing extensive support to real estate and infrastructure funds. It can handle matters concerning both large-scale debt and equity funds. The team at Greenberg Traurig provides all-round assistance to clients on fundraising, joint ventures, secondary transactions and final fund closing, among other matters.
Work Highlights
- Greenberg Traurig advised Heimstaden on the establishment and close of a new UK residential developer fund.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The Greenberg Traurig team are great to work with. They can execute on complex matters at speed, show strong negotiation skills and have a collaborative approach."
"They are very commercially minded, creative and constructive."
"The team are commercial and dedicated to client service."
"They are very good. Advice is always very clear, the team are user-friendly and they can react quickly if we need something."
"The Greenberg Traurig team are great to work with. They can execute on complex matters at speed, show strong negotiation skills and have a collaborative approach."
"They are very commercially minded, creative and constructive."
"The team are commercial and dedicated to client service."
"They are very good. Advice is always very clear, the team are user-friendly and they can react quickly if we need something."
Notable Practitioners
Steven Cowins specialises in the formation of UK and European real estate funds, while also working with leading clients on joint ventures and club deals.
"Steven has excellent market knowledge and the ability to guide clients to solutions."
"Steven is an exceptional lawyer with strong commercial acumen and negotiation skills."
"Steven is renowned and highly respected."
"Steven was very commercially minded in terms of achieving our goal in the transactions."
"Steven is knowledgeable across all areas."
Marc Snell has a flourishing practice advising fund managers on the full life cycle of investment funds. He has notable experience assisting clients with cross-border matters.
"Marc is reliable, friendly and easy to work with."
Ranked Lawyers at
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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