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Robert Spencer

Senior Associate
Sheffield
About

Robert Spencer practices across a range of different real estate matters including acquisitions and disposals, landlord and tenant matters and property development. He has acted for many types of real estate clients including corporate occupiers (in particular in the industrials sector), investors, developers and financial institutions.

Areas of FocusIndustrialsReal Estate
Professional QualificationsSolicitor-Advocate in England and Wales, 2016

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising a major business division of a multi-national corporate on the day-to-day management of its global property portfolio. This role includes acting directly on England and Wales-based transactions and coordinating and managing local counsel for overseas-based transactions.
  • Acting for a large international steel producer on the ongoing management, development and disposal of both operational and non-operational assets in Yorkshire, the Midlands and South Wales, including the refurbishment and grant of a new lease of a 12,000 square feet research and development facility at a multi-million pound business park development in Sheffield.
  • Acting for one of Europe's largest steel stockholders on the £33m disposal of its London site to a residential developer.
  • Part of a multi-jurisdictional team reporting to a global property fund on a Europe-wide portfolio of logistics assets.
  • Advising on the real estate elements of the recent merger which created the largest independent timber distribution company in the UK.
  • Advising a major national retailer on the property aspects of a new warehousing and distribution contract.
Education
  • Oxford University, Jurisprudence B.A., 2013
  • Sheffield University, Legal Practice Course, 2014

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Phone

+44 114 283 3175
(Work, Sheffield)
+44 773 477 9286
(Work)
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