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Dr Cyrille West

Principal Associate
Head of Build to Rent, London

Cyrille is the Head of our Build to Rent practice in London focusing primarily on BTR but with great experience in the Senior Living and Student sectors.

Cyrille is a development lawyer based within our Real Estate team in our London office and is the Head of Build to Rent (BTR) in London. He is a core part of our "beds-sector group" handling complex and high-value real estate developments, forward fundings and acquisitions/disposals for institutional and foreign investors including several major UK financial institutions. He also advises on the acquisition, asset-management and disposal strategies associated with BTR and mixed-use schemes.

In over 20 years of practice, Cyrille has worked for a broad range of clients, acting primarily for institutions, private equity firms and foreign investors. Cyrille focuses mainly on development and on development funding in relation to BTR and Private Rented sector developments as well as associated debt-finance. He also has great experience in the Senior Living and Student Housing sectors, having advised on the development of multiple care home, care village and student housing schemes during his career.

Cyrille also handles complex asset management (sales, leases, purchases, lease re-gears, etc.) for developers and investors as well as providing practical day-to-day asset management advice.

Projects Cyrille has recently led on include:

  • £450m 650-unit BTR forward funding at a central London location for an international developer/operator
  • c£100m development of two sites in Manchester and Liverpool creating approximately 560 units for a US private equity provider (including securing third-party development financing from a major US bank)

Additional examples of deals he has managed include:

  • c£100m redevelopment of a major London office building for a very large UK institution
  • £70m acquisition of a property portfolio in the heart of Soho
  • sale and leaseback (on behalf of a major international institution) of three supermarket stores and a distribution hub for a value in excess of £160m
  • development and forward funding of a new 600,000 sq ft distribution warehouse
  • acquisition of a major building in the heart of the City and the acquisition of a 120-acre ex-military site in Bedfordshire

During his career Cyrille has given presentations to clients on many aspects of the BTR sector including:

  • overviews of the sector as it is evolving
  • points to consider when forward funding BTR developments
  • asset management strategies associated with BTR and mixed-use schemes
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, College of Law, London, 1998-1999
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Law, College of Law, London, 1997-1998
  • PhD in Molecular Biology, University College, London, 1993-1997
  • BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry, Imperial College, 1990-1993
Dr Cyrille West

Principal Associate

Head of Build to Rent, London

Dr Cyrille West

Principal Associate

Head of Build to Rent, London

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