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 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...

Coronavirus Act: residential tenancies and protection from eviction

Nick Barnes, Rachael Ashton 27 Mar 2020

The Coronavirus Act 2020 brings into force special measures to assist residential tenants. We have set out below the key changes to assured shorthold tenancies. Assured shorthold...