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Kirsty Corkum

I am a real estate lawyer working on high value, complex developments, prelettings and investments.

Areas of Expertise

Real Estate

Real Estate Law

Real Estate Development

Real Estate Investment

Financial Services

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Our Service

I am a real estate lawyer working on high value, complex developments, prelettings and investments.

With over twenty five years’ experience in the real estate sector, I provide legal advice to developers, investors, landlords and tenants of UK property. I have worked extensively on high value, mixed use, leisure/hotel and office urban development projects.

I coordinate specialist planning, litigation and construction lawyers and work collaboratively with other real estate consultants to deliver a holistic legal service which anticipates the drivers/requirements of funders, purchasers/occupiers and other stakeholders and so as to achieve project completion - without unwelcome surprises.

I love working as part of the development and transactional team; it is this integration which enables me to forecast upcoming pinch points and provide timely and innovative solutions. It delivers the job satisfaction of creating - with others – place making destinations.

I work with UK developers/ investors and also have acted for many international organisations; exploring with them their domestic expectations so that I can reconcile these with UK practice and guide them through the idiosyncrasies of the UK market.

Experience

The acquisition of Whiteleys Shopping Centre by corporate vehicle for Meyer Bergman (now known as Mark) and its ongoing redevelopment into a prime residential, leisure and retail destination; navigating significant development constraints and third party issues and advising on scheme structuring and penthouse sales.

Advising a Far East investor on the acquisition of a prime residential and mixed use development site in West London with particular focus on the deliverability of the approved planning scheme in the light of the material development constraints.

Acting for Middle Eastern investors buying standing investments and development sites with and without acquisition financing.

Advising on development management agreements for both owners and development managers with complex profit share arrangements for major developments in the UK.

Acting for a global investment bank the purchase of a corporate vehicle owning a London midtown building which completed the assembly of a development site destined to become their EMEA HQ. I acted on the subsequent redevelopment; obtaining multiple releases of rights of light from adjoining owners.

Advising on the negotiation and variation of rent sharing long leases with the City of London and other institutions.

Acting on forward funding of office and hotel developments for Aviva and other UK institutions and funds.

Advising a US real estate fund on their redevelopment, pre-letting and refinancing of their London office portfolio comprising 5 multi million pound buildings.

Acting for Canary Wharf on the pre-letting and re-gearing of major office lettings at the Wharf.

Advising Great Portland Estates on the acquisition of development sites with and without planning, their development and letting; selling the completed income producing investment to institutional and international buyers.

Advising Singaporean investors on the acquisition of office and retail investments of £260m and £160m respectively.

Kirsty Corkum is very experienced in commercial property conveyancing and a first class professional.