Rebecca Ashton Senior Associate

Senior Associate
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Rebecca has a broad range of experience in the real estate sector including acquisitions and disposals of portfolio and high value assets, joint venture investments, development projects and landlord and tenant matters.

Rebecca’s clients include developers, corporates, sovereign wealth funds, financial institutions and property investors, both in the UK and internationally. Her sector experience includes offices, retail, industrial, student accommodation, leisure, medical and private rented sector (PRS) residential.

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Recent work

Stanhope plc

Advising Stanhope plc on its joint venture with Canadian real estate developer Cadillac Fairview and Thomas White Oxford Limited (the development arm of St John’s College of the University of Oxford) to build a £700m new global innovation development, consisting of approximately 939,000 square feet of laboratory, workspace and amenity space.

Supermarket Income REIT

Advising Supermarket Income REIT on the acquisition, financing and management of the majority of their supermarket portfolio, some of which involved corporate acquisitions, splitting shopping centres in complicated transfers of part, high value lease regears and redevelopment opportunities.

KPS Capital Partners

Advising American private equity firm, KPS Capital Partners, on the English law aspects of its acquisition of the European tinplate business of New York-listed Crown Holdings Inc in a transaction valuing the business at €2.25bn.

Industrial Property Investment Fund

Advising Industrial Property Investment Fund on the purchase of several sites including: the acquisition of twelve strategically important industrial sites with an aggregate price of £116m and some of which involve future redevelopment; and the sale of a portfolio of a separate nine industrial estates with an aggregate price of £52.5m.

Legal and General

Advising Legal and General on the acquisition, forward funding and letting of two student accommodation development projects for the University of Lincoln.

Joint venture

Advising a confidential client on a joint venture for the investment of £150m in a range of retail, office, industrial and logistics property across the UK, together with a related asset management agreement.

The Government of Singapore

Advising The Government of Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund (GIC) on its pan-European student accommodation joint venture with GSA.

McAleer and Rushe

Advising McAleer and Rushe on the acquisition, leaseback and proposed redevelopment of Cannon Park Shopping Centre, Coventry.

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The future of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill

Rebecca Ashton 16 Nov 2022
The Bill is currently in its report stage, for the House of Commons to review and amend the latest version of the Bill (dated 20 October 2022) after its first and second readings....
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