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Finlay Campbell

Partner
Finlay is always very diligent and extremely knowledgeable in all commercial property matters. We have always been very impressed with his knowledge and approach to handling our requirements.
— Legal 500 UK
Edinburgh
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Finlay Campbell is an experienced real estate investment and development lawyer with a broad practice across the UK and Europe. He acts on the acquisition, development, management and disposal of properties which span the PBSA, BTR, residential, healthcare, retail, leisure, office, industrial and alternative market sectors. 

Finlay advises national and international property investment companies, private funds, local authority pension funds, alternative lenders, healthcare providers, developers and a variety of national and international corporate occupiers, retailers and leisure operators.

Areas of FocusConsumer Goods, Food and RetailReal EstateHealthcareIndustrialsInfrastructure, Construction and Transport
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONSAdmitted as a Solicitor with the Law Society of Scotland

RECENT EXPERIENCE

  • Advising Noventa Energy on the acquisition of three heat-from-wastewater plants from Scottish Water.
  • Acting for Dalglen Investment Group on the acquisition of Kingston Industrial Estate, EE's 62,000sq ft call centre in Greenock and a 117,000sq ft BPI plc industrial facility.
  • Acting for global investment group Triple B on the acquisition of office investment 7 Birchin Lane in London's financial district.
  • Acting for The Bank of New York Mellon on the investment acquisition of prime Apex, Condor Glen, Eurocentral, let to Stapleton’s. Price of GBP8.7m.
  • Acting for investment group Triple B on their acquisition of the Omni Centre, Edinburgh for circa GBP64m. This was the largest leisure transaction in the UK since 2019.
  • Advising Schroders Real Estate and Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council as administering authority for Greater Manchester Pension Fund on the purchase of a 120-bed PBSA investment in Edinburgh for GBP22.5m.
  • Acting for Panther Securities plc on their 2024 £68m refinance.
  • Advising Wesleyan Assurance on the acquisition of prime industrial facility 51 McNeil Drive, Eurocentral, let to Biffa. Price of GBP6.75m.
  • Advising MGTS St John's High Income Fund on the investment acquisition of prime industrial premises at Eurocentral.
  • Representing an institutional fund on Scotland’s largest office deal of 2022. The deal was a shortlisted Deal of the Year finalist at the 2023 Scottish Property Awards and was the largest office deal outside of London in 2022.
  • Advising Circle Health Group on the acquisition and disposal of several healthcare and hospital facilities.
  • Advising a property investment client on a 2022 c.£900m cross border property portfolio acquisition.
  • Acting for Advance Construction Group on multiple site acquisitions and disposals, including mixed use schemes with GDVs of GBP250m and GBP850m.
  • Advising the funders of a substantial Glasgow city centre BTR development.
  • Advising a client on the acquisition and disposal of various city centre hotel, BTR, PBSA and mixed use sites.
  • Advising a client on the acquisition and onward sale of various residential development sites.
  • Advising leisure clients Lane 7 Group, New World Trading Company and TOCA on their acquisitions in Scotland.
  • Acting for a client on the acquisition and subsequent financing of several industrial estates.
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