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Eilian Hughes

Principal Associate

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Languages: Welsh

Eilian Hughes is a Principal Associate in the Real Estate practice group of Eversheds Sutherland in Cardiff.

Eilian has experience in a broad range of real estate matters, including sales, acquisitions, disposals, refinancings, prelets, landlord and tenant work, and general commercial property management. Eilian has also advised clients on various property elements of mergers and acquisitions, insolvency, restructuring, and refinancing transactions.

He primarily works for commercial developers and investors (in both public and private sectors) and house builders regarding all aspects of land acquisitions and disposals, including site assembly and the letting and sale of completed developments. Eilian also has experience in work involving business parks, out-of-town retail developments, industrial estates, office premises and mixed-use schemes, as well as work in the transport and renewable energy sectors.

Eilian's recent client experience includes:

  • assisting an investor with the sale of its 480,000 sq. ft. retail park in Cardiff to a pension fund for £59.65million
  • working for a leading industrial investor in due diligence for its corporate acquisition of an SPV that owned four logistics warehouses totaling 53,100 sq.m. for £49.5million
  • helping a fund with its acquisition of an investment portfolio of residential or mixed-use properties for circa £150million
  • advising a national housebuilder in its acquisition of substantial phases of a residential development site for the construction of 524 dwellings and the subsequent disposals of various phases forming parts of the site to other housebuilders and housing associations
  • acting for a joint venture between two construction companies in disposing of phases of a large mixed-use development site on a former RAF base as well as dealing with various estate management matters
  • representing a prominent privately-owned property company in its multi-million pounds disposal of a number of former industrial/commercial sites for mainly residential use

Eilian is a fluent Welsh speaker and has drafted legal documents and correspondence in the Welsh language.

Diploma in Legal Practice, Cardiff Law School, 2007-2008

LLB (Hons) Law, Cardiff University, 2004-2007

Eilian Hughes

Principal Associate

Eilian Hughes

Principal Associate

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