Paul Leamy

Paul advises clients on all aspects of commercial real estate work.

Paul's advice covers acquisitions and disposals, landlord and tenant matters, and real estate development. He specialises in work with the real estate development sector, where he advises developers and investors on all stages of the real estate development process.

He has particular experience in mixed-use retail and leisure schemes and purpose-built student accommodation schemes.

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Career

Since 2015	Partner, Taylor Wessing
2011	Senior Counsel, Taylor Wessing
2002 - 2011	Associate, Taylor Wessing

2000 - 2002

Associate, Garretts (Andersen Legal)

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Education

2000	Admitted as a lawyer, England, Wales
1995	LLB Law, King's College London

Additional languages

English

Expertise

Sectors Real estate Student accommodation Living Offices

Experience

Cain International logistics portfolio acquisition	Advising Cain International on its entry to the UK logistics market with a £550 million logistics portfolio acquisition from Firethorn Trust
McLaren on their nationwide development programme for high end development	McLaren on their nationwide development programme for high end residential development, mixed used, and student accommodation blocks in Bath, Brighton, Cardiff, London, Oxford, Cambridge, Coventry, Southampton, and Manchester.
McLaren Property on GBP175 million deal	McLaren Property on a GBP175 million forward funding with Brookfield's Student Roost. The funding will be used by McLaren to develop three new student accommdation schemes delivering a total of 1,387 beds to two prime, regional cities; Warwick and Brighton. The schemes will be delivered for the 2020/21 and 2021/22 academic years, with two schemes in Warwick and one in Brighton.

Advising Meadow Partners on the sale at £65m of the corporate vehicle owning 65 Southwark Street.	Advising Meadow Partners on the sale at £65m of the corporate vehicle owning 65 Southwark Street, also known as the Harlequin building to an overseas institution.
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.
McLaren Property on the multi-billion pound delivery of development projects since their inception in 2010	McLaren Property on their acquisitions and redevelopments since their inception in 2010. Whilst McLaren are active across multiple sectors, the bulk of the projects undertaken have been in the purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) and residential sectors. Taylor Wessing has advised on redevelopment projects undertaken both independently and in joint venture partnerships with sector specialists, with a current pipeline of development assets totalling GBP1.5bn.