Keith Barnett – Partner
5 New Street Square
London EC4A 3TW
United Kingdom
DX 41 London
Tel. +44 (0)20 7300 7000
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Head of Real Estate (UK)
Keith has been head of Real Estate at Taylor Wessing since 2007. His experience covers all aspects of commercial property work specialising in property development, finance and investment. Keith has acted for a number of significant property occupiers as well as a wide range of property companies, banks, financial institutions and overseas investors. Keith has been named The Lawyer's "Hot 100" lawyers.
Recent examples of his experience include:
- acting for London & Regional Properties on its £600 million redevelopment of the former Marks & Spencer's headquarters at Baker Street;
- acting for Multiplex (now Brookfield) on its 1,000,000 sq ft redevelopment of High Wycombe Town Centre;
- acting for leading entrepreneurial real estate property company in connection with its 1,000,000 sq ft mixed use development at Greenwich, South East London;
- acting for a private entrepreneurial company joint venture to acquire a property portfolio valued in excess of £500 million;
- acting for Thomson Financial (now Thomson -Reuters) in connection with its acquisition of a London headquarters building; and
- advising Heron in connection with its proposed scheme at Heron Plaza in the City of London to provide a mixed-use scheme featuring the City of London's only super-luxury hotel.
Keith also acted for the firm in connection with its recent acquisition of its new London headquarters building at 5 New Street Square, London, providing 165,000 sq ft of first class modern office space in a Land Securities development.
Keith is a frequent participant in property law seminars and conferences and is rated both by Chambers and Legal 500 as one of London’s leading real estate lawyers. Keith qualified as a solicitor in 1985, following which he spent eight years at leading property specialists D J Freeman before joining the Andersen Legal firm, Garretts in 1993 where he was Head of Property until arriving at Taylor Wessing in May 2002.