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Liz Whitfield

Principal Associate

Liz Whitfield is a Principal Associate in our Real Estate Practice Group. She is experienced in a broad range of corporate occupier real estate work including complex acquisitions, disposals, sale and leasebacks, landlord and tenant matters, portfolio management, refinance, development and corporate transactions. She acts for a variety of corporate occupiers, private investors and developers across a variety of sectors.

Liz is the BAU supervisor for three client service teams where Liz is responsible for all aspects of day-to-day client relationship management including the allocation and supervision of all new instructions in addition to the management and adherence to all client KPIs ensuring consistent delivery of service.

Her recent experience includes:

  • acting for a high street bank in the management of its extensive property portfolio including conditional agreements for lease, granting underleases and portfolio sales and surrenders
  • acting for a care home operator on its acquisition programme of new build care homes and disposal of surplus assets
  • acting for a developer dealing with sales of properties conditional on planning and other matters including drafting and negotiating site investigation licences, overage agreements and carrying out due diligence in respect of properties and preparing title reports
  • the disposal of a care home investment business for £500m, the disposal of a shopping centre portfolio for £58m and a £100m portfolio sale and lease back scheme for a major grocery retailer

Liz also has extensive experience working for landlord shopping centre clients. This experience involves working on existing shopping centres, industrial estates and new developments.

Liz previously spent two years in house working for Your Housing Group, a 32,000 property Registered Provider where she managed the legal team.

Liz's recent key transactions include:

  • acting for Barchester Healthcare on the acquisition of numerous sites for future care home development
  • acting for Aviva Investors on the sale of several of its retail assets and in relation to the management of their property portfolios
  • acting for Lloyds Banking Group where Liz supervises a team of 8 legal advisers on lease renewals and other associated estate management matters across its entire property portfoli
  • acting for Boohoo.com in relation to its lease of a 1.1m sq ft site in Daventry, Northamptonshire
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Legal Practice, 2005-2006
  • Legal Practice Course, The College of Law, London, 2000-2001
  • BA (Hons) in Law and Criminology, 1997-2000
Liz Whitfield

Principal Associate

Liz Whitfield

Principal Associate

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