Helping you maximize net operating income from your assets

With real estate continuing to provide a stable long term investment, we help owners and property managers maximize returns through portfolio scale leasing and asset management, supporting ongoing, high volume leasing activity across diversified assets while maintaining legal protections. Our global team combines real time market insight drawn from active leasing across portfolios, deep commercial real estate experience, and local knowledge to help clients make the most of their assets.

The value of your portfolio can be enhanced by working with lawyers who understand not only the legal issues involved, but also the operational realities and evolving priorities of managing assets across an entire portfolio, including changing tenant needs, market conditions, and investment objectives.

We help clients maximize asset value and building occupancy by delivering consistent, high‑quality lease execution across portfolios, completing leases, renewals, amendments, terminations, and re‑tenanting efficiently, protectively, and within the framework of market expectations. Landlord and tenant clients benefit from our deep understanding of leasing nuances, local market dynamics, and the patterns and benchmarks that emerge from active leasing across multiple assets and markets.

Our services include drafting and negotiating leases, advising on sustainability issues and green clauses, and handling all ancillary documentation including amendments, parking agreements, lender subordination agreements, and subleases as part of both individual asset strategies and broader portfolio leasing programs. We help you to create more profitable portfolios.

We also advise on construction contracts, architectural agreements, management agreements, lease disputes including litigation, and all other lease-related transactions. When needed, we also mediate disputes over operating costs, repair and maintenance, and proceedings related to the extension, renewal, and termination of lease agreements.

Sophisticated technologies and procedures are used to assign, track, supervise, and monitor high volumes of leasing matters across portfolios, enabling consistent quality, faster decision‑making, and improved visibility into leasing activity for owners and asset managers operating across multiple properties and markets.

We also share individual experiences and best practices across the firm through an extensive curriculum and seminars, allowing insights gained from leasing activity across portfolios, asset classes, and markets to inform client advice, strategy, and execution.

Our leasing and asset management team is supported by multidisciplinary practices around the world in related areas such as securities, bankruptcy, tax and corporate law, construction, environmental, and litigation. This enables a full-service approach with continuity across borders.

“Incredibly strong practice.”

Legal 500, 2026

Sophisticated technologies and procedures are used to assign, track, supervise, and monitor volume leasing matters, enabling the highest quality leases to be produced within your deadlines.

We also share individual experiences and best practices across the firm through an extensive curriculum and seminars. These are also available for clients who want this level of insight. This knowledge bank means we’re consistently up to date and can deliver the most appropriate solutions including client workshops to provide efficiency and higher quality outcomes.

Experience

A major institutional pension fund on a significant portfolio of leasing matters across the United States involving office, technology, mixed-use, retail and medical office assets, including major headquarters and technology-campus leasing transactions. Representative matters include Nordstrom's long-term headquarters lease covering 32 floors in downtown Seattle and approximately one million square feet of leasing across a Silicon Valley technology campus.
AXA on a number of acquisitions, disposals and ongoing management work across its UK property portfolio, including the GBP86 million disposal of a major retail and office asset in Oxford Street, London; the disposal of significant office and retail assets for AXA Sun Life and Sun Life Assurance Society PLC; the acquisition of an office redevelopment opportunity for the Greater London Fund and the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of NorthStar Realty Europe Corp.
British Airways in respect of all on-and off-airport properties for the airline globally, providing comprehensive advice on transactional, property litigation and construction matters, including their headquarter offices, lettings at major airports (including London Heathrow and London Gatwick), reconfiguring access arrangements for the new double-decker A380 aircraft, crew rooms, assignment of previous leases held by bmi, and reorganization of the property holdings of the BA Group at London Gatwick.
CBRE Investment Management on leasing matters across its national real estate portfolio, spanning office, retail, industrial, logistics, life sciences and mixed-use assets and involving a diverse roster of technology, retail and corporate occupiers.
Morningstar in its approximately 278,000-square-foot headquarters lease at Chicago's redeveloped Thompson Center.
Ocean Network Express, the sixth largest container company in the world, on setting up 49 new offices in 23 countries across Europe and Africa.
Round Hill Capital on the acquisition and management of an 18-asset logistics and industrial portfolio in Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
St James’s Place plc, the wealth management house with direct property investments of approximately GBP2 billion spread across over 100 assets. We have acquired and actively managed all of these assets. They include several industrial estates, retail parks, trading estates, shopping centers and office developments and business parks.
Universities Superannuation Scheme, the largest pension scheme in the UK with direct property investments of GBP2.5 billion spread across 84 assets with an average lot size of GBP30 million.