Kirsty Childs Senior Associate

Senior Associate
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Kirsty is experienced across a broad range of commercial real estate matters with a particular focus on corporate and operational real estate.

She has a depth of experience advising private equity houses, financial institutions, developers and investors on all aspects of the property life cycle, including acquisitions (on both a corporate and asset basis), development, financing, management, lettings and disposals.

Kirsty has led transactions involving sales and purchases of large property portfolios (including care homes, shopping centres and holiday parks), individual sites (whether for investment or development purposes), complex development and promotion agreements, build-to-rent development, commercial lettings and sale and leaseback transactions.

With a specialism in the hotels sector, Kirsty works alongside a number of high profile clients in relation to landmark hotels, whether in respect of day to day operations, acquisitions, development or the financing of operational hotel assets.

Expertise

Recent work

Constellation

Advising Constellation Hotels on the £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 on the proposed redevelopment of Claridge’s and the Berkeley Hotel.

Investec

Advising Investec on the complex property separation aspects of their £839m combination of Investec W&I UK with Rathbones.

Parkdean Holidays

Advising Parkdean Holidays on the refinancing of its holiday park portfolio, £960m merger with Park Resorts, and the £1.35bn 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, a 135 acre site including land swap elements.

Access Development Partnership and Build to Rent Fund

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

Various lenders

Acting 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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