Alan Evans

Alan is a member of our Real Estate group. He guides clients through all aspects of their commercial property transactions. Alan specialises in investment acquisitions and disposals, forward funding transactions and development agreements.

Alan has more than 20 years of experience advising developers, investors, owners and occupiers across a range of sectors, including logistics, leisure, office and retail.

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Career

Since 1995

Partner, Taylor Wessing

Education

1997	Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales
1994	Legal Practice Course, Chester Law School
1993	LLB Hons, Sheffield University

Additional languages

English

Expertise

Sectors Technology, media & communications Consumer & retail Real estate Stadia Offices

Experience

British Land purchase of three Wembley warehouses	We advised British Land on the purchase of three warehouses at Hannah Close in Wembley for £157 million. This was a development-led opportunity aligned to British Land's strategy of delivering new urban logistics space.
Tritax Big Box REIT plc on the GBP370m acquisition of db Symmetry	Tritax Big Box REIT on its acquisition of db Symmetry, which owns one of the UK’s largest strategic land portfolios for the development of Big Box real estate assets and related logistics facilities. The acquisition attributed an enterprise value of GBP370 million to db Symmetry.
Secure Income REIT on the GBP224m acquisition of a leisure portfolio	Secure Income REIT on the GBP224 million acquisition of a UK leisure portfolio including the UK's largest indoor arena, the Manchester Arena as well as The Brewery at Chiswell Street, EC1, the largest catered events space in the City of London and 18 freehold pubs.

Secure Income REIT	Secure Income REIT on approximately GBP3 billion of sale and leaseback transactions in the pub, retail, leisure and healthcare sectors.
Derwent London	Derwent London on the acquisition, pre-let and development of a major London office and retail scheme.
Development of a portfolio of projects in the private rental sector for Essential Living	Essential Living in relation to the development of a portfolio of projects in the private rental sector.