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 on its acquisition of an 87% economic interest in 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, which attributes an enterprise value of GBP370 million to db Symmetry, is being funded with a mixture of equity and cash raised pursuant to a placing and open offer underwritten by Jefferies.We have advised Tritax on numerous real estate acquisitions, forward fundings, debt financings and capital markets fundraisings, including its IPO in 2013.Tritax is the only real estate investment trust dedicated to investing in very large logistics facilities in the UK.
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.
Redevelopment of Brentford Football Club	Brentford Football Club on all legal issues relating to the development of their new stadium covering real estate, planning, construction, corporate finance, IP, media and technology matters. Taylor Wessing advised on the redevelopment plans for the existing ground, Griffin Park, and the development of land for a new stadium together with match day corporate facilities, accommodation for the Sports Trust, and 910 residential units and a hotel.