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Lorna Edwards

Legal Director
London
About

Lorna Edwards has a wealth of experience advising on corporate real estate transactions and joint ventures.

Her areas of expertise include sales and acquisitions of companies and businesses with a real estate focus and joint ventures in the real estate and hospitality sectors.

Areas of FocusCorporate
Professional QualificationsSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising Longfellow Real Estate Partners on its joint venture with Canadian pension fund PSP and their first investment into the UK market with the acquisition of a life sciences development site, Capital Park in Cambridge.
  • Advising Tristan Capital Partners in connection with its joint venture arrangements with Queensway Hotels in relation to its acquisition of the Point A Hotels portfolio from Wellcome Trust for GBP420m.*
  • Advising Magdalen College, Oxford on its joint venture arrangements with GIC in relation to The Oxford Science Park, valued at GBP400m.*...
  • Advising Longfellow Real Estate Partners on its joint venture with Canadian pension fund PSP and their first investment into the UK market with the acquisition of a life sciences development site, Capital Park in Cambridge.
  • Advising Tristan Capital Partners in connection with its joint venture arrangements with Queensway Hotels in relation to its acquisition of the Point A Hotels portfolio from Wellcome Trust for GBP420m.*
  • Advising Magdalen College, Oxford on its joint venture arrangements with GIC in relation to The Oxford Science Park, valued at GBP400m.*
  • Assisting a real estate investment firm with the acquisition and joint venture arrangements with a property developer manager for a senior living development site.*
  • Assisting on the sale of the Grange Hotels trophy assets for circa GBP1 billion to Queensgate Investments.*
  • Negotiating a joint venture agreement for a leading UK property developer and asset manager opposite a global real estate fund of Credit Suisse in connection with the acquisition of a UK office development site.*

    • *Denotes experience from previous firms

Languages
  • English
Education
  • Oxford Institute of Legal Practice, LPC, Distinction, 2009
  • Keele University, LL.B (Hons) Law with Biology, 2.1, 2008

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Phone

+44 207 796 61 34
(Work, London)
+44 779 591 80 37
(Work)

Location

London
160 Aldersgate Street
London
EC1A 4HT
United Kingdom
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