David is a senior associate in our Property department and has many years experience advising companies on the property aspects of corporate transactions. Originally having worked in London for over 9 years, he specialises in dealing with the property aspects of M&A work, asset based lending and secured lending. David has considerable experience advising insolvency practitioners in relation to the disposal of the property interests’ of insolvent companies

Together with stand alone landlord and tenant work (involving the taking of leases of office, light industrial and retail space), David has carried out portfolio management work for a number of corporate clients with UK wide property interests. He has also acted for numerous developers in connection with site assemblies/acquisitions and redevelopments, including grant funded developments.

Representative Experience

• Acting for a developer in connection with the lettings of office and retail space in a recently refurbished 460,000 sq ft mixed use development in the north west.
• Acting for a developer on their acquisition of a multi-let 41,355 sq ft listed building in Manchester City Centre.
• Undertaking all the property due diligence for an overseas lender, in connection with the securing of a new $650,000,000.00 revolving credit facility.
• Advising Montagu Private Equity in its £146,000,000.00 financing of the management buyout of Survitec Group, involving a review of all the UK property interests of the company and the other property interests all over the world.
• Advising Live Nation and LN-Gaiety Holdings Limited Carried on their joint bid for the Mean Fiddler Music Group PLC, involving the review of all their property interests from offices, bars and dance clubs to festival sites.
• Advising many corporate clients on the taking and fitting out of office space, including space in Regent Street and New Oxford Street, London and The Lexicon building in Manchester.
• Acting for many of the commercial finance divisions of major lenders, in connection with asset based lending transactions, ranging from £5m to £40m.