Will Deeprose

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Will has advised a range of clients in respect of their property activities over his career his main focus being in relation to investment acquisitions and disposals and residential led mixed use development projects  His experience includes advising on purchasing and selling (both corporate and asset structured transactions), developing and managing investment properties; landlord and tenant matters, including retail and office premises; joint ventures and profit sharing arrangements and ground lease structures.

Experience

• Advising U + I Group Plc in relation to the delivery of one of Brighton’s biggest ever regeneration projects, including the disposal of parts of the site for development as student and (separately) residential accommodation whilst retaining the commercial units within the residential block and retaining and delivering a ground breaking co-working office and entrepreneurial hub building.
• Advising Native Land in securing a development agreement opposite the Portman Estate for a mixed-use scheme, with 43,000 sq ft of offices over six floors, accompanied by 24 residential apartments, and four ground floor retail units fronting Edgware Road.  We have continued to assist Native Land in achieving unconditionality, the letting of the various construction appointments and the real estate aspects of the circa £40m development financing that was simultaneously put in place.
• Advising Spelthorne Borough Council on a complex sale and leaseback acquisition of the BP Campus, Sunbury and a number of further significant investment transactions.  We continue to assist in respect of on-going estate management on each of these projects.
• Advising on a 50:50 joint venture sell down and simultaneous £270m long term refinancing of the asset in respect of Watermark Place, London.
• Advising on the acquisition, subsequent asset management and sale of a leading out of town office park for a leading Canadian pension fund.
• Advising on the acquisition, vacant possession strategy and subsequent redevelopment of a high profile residential building in St James's, London.
• Advising a range of clients on their head office relocation projects including negotiation of dilapidation settlements and acquisition of new premises.