Holly Grundon

Holly is an senior associate in the Real Estate Group, specialising in planning law. She advises a variety of clients including developers, investors, private clients and financial institutions. Holly has particular expertise in obtaining and implementing planning permissions, negotiating planning agreements, built heritage and advising on the planning aspects of real estate and financing transactions. She combines a successful career in planning practice with an amateur Triathlon career (both in her own name and for GB).

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Career

Since 2017	Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2015 - 2017	Associate, Taylor Wessing
2011 - 2014	Associate, Taylor Wessing

2010 - 2011	Adviser, Three Rivers District Council
2007 - 2009	Trainee Solicitor, Berwin Leighton Paisner

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Education

2009	Admitted as a lawyer, England and Wales
2006	LPC, College of Law, London
2005	LLB Law, Cardiff University

Expertise

Sectors Real estate

Experience

Advising Cara on a prestigious acquisition	Cara Real Estate, the real estate arm of Cara Investment, on its acquisition of 7-10 Waterloo Place from real estate investment manager Barings. The Grade II listed office building in St James' was sold for GBP71m and is Cara's second London deal following the purchase of 20 Soho Square for GBP117m in 2018. This transaction drew on the deep expertise offered by the firm's real estate, construction, planning, banking and finance and corporate teams.
InfraRed's Active Real Estate fund on the acquisition of multi let logistics assets	InfraRed's Active Real Estate fund on the acquisition of in excess of 4 million square feet of multi let logistics and industrial assets in the UK.
InfraRed Capital Partners on its GBP20m acquisition of a multi-let industrial estate	InfraRed Capital Partners Limited on its GBP20m acquisition of a 105,000 sq ft (c. 9,755 m²) multi-let industrial estate. The estate is located in Sidcup, in the south east of Greater London. The acquisition marks the start of InfraRed’s recent GBP200m commitment to its Core+ urban logistics strategy and will aim to capture the increasing demand for warehousing space near large and growing metropolitan areas.

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.
R&F Properties on high profile development sites in London	Advising on real estate matters, site set up and disposals, construction, finance, planning, infrastructure, highways, and CIL matters across four major development sites. Work is ongoing on this impressive portfolio of developments. The total number of residential units is over 4,000, in addition to retail, office, hotel and leisure floor space uses.
Acquisition and proposed redevelopment of St John's Wood Barracks	A high net worth overseas investor on the acquisition and proposed redevelopment of the St John's Wood Barracks site.