Linklaters’ global real estate team is one of the few leading firms to offer discrete real estate tax expertise to clients. The firm’s specialists advise on the tax aspects of investing in and developing international real estate, including structuring property investment funds for real estate markets around the world.

Recent real estate tax transactions include advising:

• AustralianSuper on its successful acquisition of a strategic stake in the Kings Cross Central development
• Abu Dhabi Financial Group on the £370m acquisition of New Scotland Yard
• Development Securities Plc on the acquisition of Cathedral Group (Holdings) Limited
• Intu Properties plc on the £967.8m acquisition of two regional shopping centres and a retail park financed by a fully underwritten rights issue and three new debt facilities