Clare is a Partner for our London real estate team.
Over her 23 years of experience, Clare has developed wide-ranging experience in complex commercial real estate work, including forward funding, forward purchase, build-to-rent developments, sale and leaseback transactions, portfolio sales and acquisitions, and high-profile lettings for institutional investors and other private-sector clients.
Clare's recent experience includes:
- advising a strategic landowner on a three-year framework agreement with a US private equity firm to build 700 new suburban homes for rent and the development forward funding of the first project under that framework to deliver 149 homes in Houlton, Rugby
- acting for an institutional investor on the sale of a highly sought-after five-building life science park in Cambridge, a simultaneous tenant surrender and sale of part of a Staples Corner business park for development by a well-known data center provider and on all legal aspects of the acquisition, refurbishment pre-let and sale of a number of high-profile City of London assets
- for a major investor, advising on the forward funding of two build-to-rent apartment developments in the South East and the acquisition by forward purchase of various student accommodation and office developments within major cities across the UK
- project managing a cross-office team for a key client acquiring a multimillion-pound portfolio comprising 13 distribution warehouse parks and industrial estates
- Carrie Women in Law
- London First
- UK AA Build to Rent Association
- Post Graduate Legal Practice Course, College of Law, York, 1994-1995
- BSc Degree in Law and German, Surrey University, 1990-1994