Alanna Hasek

General

• A US entertainment company on taking 241,201 square feet of stage, office and warehouse space across 117 properties (split into 9 leases) at Pinewood Studies. This transaction was one of the largest letting transactions of 2019 with annual rents of over GBP50 million.
• Shaftesbury Plc on the portfolio management of several of their West End villages including the acquisition, vacant possession strategy, redevelopment and letting of its mixed use scheme at Central Cross, London.
• Shaftesbury Plc on the property aspects of the refinance and bond issue secured against over GBP500 million of property within its Chinatown portfolio.
• Oval Real Estate on the acquisition of a portfolio of over 50 properties within a 5 week timetable - a transaction which won the Real Estate Team of the Year in the Legal Business Awards 2018.

Offices

• AXA Investment Managers on its bid and successful acquisition of a EUR1,1 billion Pan-European office portfolio. The transaction involved taking a NY Listed REIT private and required the team to work across the UK, Luxembourg, Germany, France and the US in a competitive bid situation.
• Boston Consulting Group on the relocation of its London HQ with the letting of space at Derwent’s 80 Charlotte Street development with an initial rent of GBP10,6 million per annum.

Data Centres

• A global financial business on its business critical outsourcing of data centre provision including drafting and negotiating the framework agreement/agreement for lease, lease/data centre services agreement, rights of pre-emption and options.
• A financial institution on a business critical outsourcing of data centre provision including drafting and negotiating the lease/data centre services agreement.

Student Accommodation

• Harrison Street Real Estate Capital on its joint venture with GSA to acquire a 350-bed student accommodation investment in central London.
• A sovereign wealth fund on its bid for the iQ Student Accommodation portfolio in the largest ever private real estate transaction as at 2020.