Rachael Ashton Senior Associate

Senior Associate

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Rachael has experience across a wide range of commercial real estate matters. Her work includes property development, investment work and a wide variety of landlord and tenant matters.

Rachael also has experience of the real estate aspects of financing transactions and corporate mergers, acquisitions and re-organisations.

She is also a member of the Macfarlanes ESG Working Group.

Expertise

Real Estate

Recent work

Berkeley Homes

Advising Berkeley Homes on various property acquisitions for the purposes of residential-led development.

The Access Development Partnership and Build to Rent Fund

Advising the Access Development Partnership and Build to Rent Fund on a build-to-rent development.

Supermarket Income REIT

Advising Supermarket Income REIT on the £73.1m acquisition of a Tesco supermarket in Sheffield.

AIG

Advising on development financing of £138 million from AIG with Homes England for the redevelopment of Station Hill in Reading.

Legal & General Investment Management

Advising on the sale of 101 St Martin’s Lane in London’s West End for £56 million.

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In depth

The beginning of the end for the residential long lease?

Rachael Ashton , Isabella Dierden-Hunt 21 Nov 2023

"One of the longest-term challenges that the country faces: fairness in the housing market."

The Mayhew Review: future-proofing retirement living - easing the care and housing crises

Rachael Ashton , Isabella Dierden-Hunt 28 Mar 2023

The Mayhew Review into retirement living was published on 1 November 2022 and sets out Professor Les Mayhew’s research into retirement living, in the context of the ongoing social...

Green leases: from ambition to delivery

Rachael Ashton , Rebecca Delaney 19 Dec 2022

The property sector will play a fundamental role in the effort to tackle the climate crisis and, as such, will be particularly affected by the rapidly evolving legal and regulatory...