He helps private property companies, funds, institutions and family offices invest in, develop and manage real estate across multiple sectors, often on an indirect or joint venture basis.
With a particular focuses on the living sector, Ian has advised on more than £3B worth of BTR, BTS and PBSA transactions over the last 10 years.
Part of the team that has won the Legal and Business, The Lawyer and Legal 500, Real Estate Team of the Year Awards.
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Ian's representative experience includes:
- ECE Projektmanagement on the purchase of a 2,100 bed BTR portfolio from Dandara and a £190M JV with Art-Invest / Dukelease on a 88 bed residential scheme in London
- Blackstone on the £450M sale of the Union State portfolio to CPPIB
- LaSalle IM on the £600M purchase of a portfolio of MacArthur Glenn designer outlet centres including Cheshire Oaks from Nuveen
- Pictect/Marchmont on the purchase of a portfolio of 18 multi-let industrial assets from M7
- Network Rail and BCC on the £600M redevelopment of Birmingham New Street Station
- LDC on the £800M sale of The NEC, ICC and The Barclaycard & Genting Arenas
- Land Securities on over £1B of sales and acquisitions (including X-Leisure portfolio, Hermes outlet portfolio, The O2)
- HS2 on the £4B redevelopment of London Euston
- Elite Partners Capital on the £282M acquisition from Telereal Trillium of the Hayhill portfolio and its subsequent IPO in Singapore
- Diploma in Legal Practice, 2000-2001
- LLB (Hons), 1996-1999