Margaret Rhodes Senior Counsel

Senior Counsel

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Margaret works on a broad range of complex real estate transactions, including investment and substantial lettings.

She acts for lenders or borrowers on real estate finance transactions and has extensive experience of restructuring and insolvency mandates involving significant real estate assets. She also regularly advises on the real estate aspects of M&A transactions.

She joined Macfarlanes in 2017 from a magic circle law firm.

Expertise

Recent work

The Instant Group

Advising The Instant Group on its merger with workspace network IWG plc’s digital businesses.

Liberation Group

Advising Liberation Group, a PE-backed pub, restaurant and drinks business and owner of the Butcombe Brewing Co, on the acquisition of 21 pubs from Wiltshire-based brewery Wadworth.

The Ritz Hotel Group

Acting for a Qatari investor on the purchase of the holding company of The Ritz Hotel Group.

Realstar Group

Advising long-standing client Realstar Group, a Canadian real estate investment company on the corporate acquisition of the circa £100m Ilford Build to Rent (BTR) scheme from Beverly Hills-based real estate company Kennedy Wilson.

KPMG Jersey

Advising KPMG Jersey as receivers of CityPoint Tower from appointment in 2012 through to sale in 2016 by Mount Street Mortgage Servicing as special servicer, including on an asset management agreement and maximisation of property value through lease re-gears and capital expenditure.

Beijing Capital Development Holdings

Advising Beijing Capital Development Holdings on the acquisition of Fleet Place House, a multi-let office and retail property in London’s Midtown. The acquisition was through a JPUT structure.

Sovereign wealth fund

Advising a sovereign wealth fund as majority stakeholder on two joint ventures for the acquisition of substantial student accommodation portfolios in the UK and Germany.

CPPIB

Advising CPPIB as mezzanine lender to Quintain for purposes including the development of private rental sector and affordable housing at Wembley.

Ministry of Defence

Advising the Ministry of Defence on the contract for the management and commercial development of Marchwood Military Port, Southampton, a 225 acre facility, including a concession agreement and a 35 year lease to the concessionaire.

International professional services firm

Advising a major international professional services firm on leases of new office premises in Manchester, first in relation to short term premises and then on a pre-let of long term premises.

EY as administrators

Advising EY as administrators on the sale of two buildings in Manchester’s prime business district to M&G Real Estate for £318m.

KPMG as administrators

Advising KPMG as administrators (subsequently liquidators) of the house builder group, McInerney Homes, on wide-ranging real estate issues, including a development management agreement for the build out of partially developed sites, sales of sites and sales of freehold reversions.

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Restrictions, ringfencing and recovery: extended tenant protections announced by government

Simon Beale, Margaret Rhodes 18 Jun 2021

Once the date for “return to normal” had been pushed back from June to July, it was perhaps inevitable that the Government would once again extend the current measures in place to...