Kirsty Childs Senior Associate

Senior Associate
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Kirsty is experienced across a broad range of commercial real estate matters including real estate finance, corporate acquisitions, development work, sales and purchases and lettings.

Kirsty has a particular focus on real estate finance, acting for both banks and borrowers and corporate property transactions.

Kirsty also has experience of sales and purchases of large property portfolios (including care homes, shopping centres and holiday parks), individual sites (whether for investment or development purposes), development work, including the negotiation of complex development and promotion agreements and associated documentation and Build-to-Rent development work. Kirsty also acts for both landlords and tenants on commercial leases.

Kirsty’s clients include property investors, developers, corporates, private equity houses and financial institutions.

 

Expertise

Recent work

Constellation Hotels

Advising Constellation Hotels on a £340m long-term facility to refinance The Connaught and The Berkeley hotels.

Twenty14 Holdings

Advising Twenty14 Holdings on the acquisition and financing of the Great Scotland Yard Hotel, London.

Maybourne Hotel Group

Advising the Maybourne Hotel Group on the refinancing of the Berkeley, Claridge’s and Connaught hotels and the proposed redevelopment extension of Claridge’s.

Parkdean Holidays

Advising Parkdean Holidays on the refinancing of its holiday park portfolio, merger with Park Resorts and the sale of the merged Parkdean Resorts Group to Onex Corporation.

Berkeley Homes

Advising Berkeley Homes’ joint venture with Prudential Assurance Company, St Edward Homes, in relation to its proposed residential redevelopment of Hartland Park, Fleet.

Access Development Partnership and Build to Rent Fund

Advising the Access Development Partnership and Build to Rent Fund on its acquisition of a future PRS development site in Leeds.

Legal & General

Advising Legal & General on the financing aspects of the forward funding of two build to rent residential developments projects at New Bailey, Salford in joint venture with Muse Developments.

Legal & General

Advising Legal & General on the grant of leases to a leading national serviced office provider at various locations including Wainbridge and Birmingham.

Geffrye Museum Trust

Advising the Geffrye Museum Trust in connection with the redevelopment of 32 Cremer Street.

Various lenders

Advising various lenders including DBS Bank, ING Bank, Investec Bank, Le Salle Investment Management and Overseas-Chinese Banking Corporation in connection with loans secured on a variety of real estate asset classes including offices, retail, hotels, student accommodation, development projects and ground rent portfolios.

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