Overview
Siobhan is a commercial real estate partner who regularly acts for clients on their “big-ticket” transactions. She is experienced in the acquisition, financing, development, letting and disposal of all types of commercial real estate, including offices, retail, student accommodation, logistics and mixed-use schemes. Her clients include major funds, institutional investors, international banks, insolvency practitioners and corporates.
Siobhan also has in-depth and comprehensive experience of complex M&A, financing, insolvency and energy/infrastructure transactions involving real estate - she works closely with Linklaters’ Corporate, Finance/R&I, and Energy & Infrastructure teams to ensure clients receive joined-up transactional advice.
Siobhan is a co-leader of the firm’s real estate sector group.
Experience
Siobhan has advised on a number of high profile real estate transactions – particular highlights include advising:
- Permodalan Nasional Berhad and Employees Provident Fund: on the £1.6bn acquisition of the iconic Battersea Power Station, one of the UK’s largest ever real estate transactions.
- A consortium of lenders: on the c.£772m development financing for a residential and luxury hotel skyscraper development scheme at One Nine Elms, London.
- Cadillac Fairview, the real estate arm of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan: on (a) the c.£250m acquisition of White City Place, London and (b) the c.£300m acquisition of five logistics sites across London and the West Midlands (in conjunction with a joint venture partner).
- Administrators: on the property aspects of (a) the pre-pack administration sale of Studio Retail Ltd and related assets to Frasers Group plc; and (b) the trading administration of the UK arm of Victoria’s Secret and the subsequent sale of the business to a joint venture purchaser.
- Cale Street Partners: on the acquisition financing of the family-owned Fenwick flagship department store on Old Bond Street, London for a mixed-use redevelopment.
- Strategic Value Partners: on the c.£1.6bn sale of a leading recycling and energy company, which operates the largest Energy from Waste (“EfW”) facility in the UK, and subsequently advising the company in respect of the property aspects of (a) a £554m debt refinancing and (b) the development and financing of an adjacent EfW facility.
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