Caroline Taylor

caroline.taylor@lw.com

+44.20.7710.4541

Profile

Caroline Taylor advises clients on a wide range of commercial real estate matters.

Ms. Taylor represents occupiers, investors, private equity firms, lenders, and borrowers. She helps clients navigate complex real estate matters, including:

Real-estate focused corporate acquisitions and disposals, often across multiple jurisdictions
Commercial lease transactions and all types of landlord and tenant work
Purchases and sales of high-value premises and property portfolios
Investment premises management
Real estate financing and refinancings

Ms. Taylor maintains an active pro bono practice, advising charities on all aspects of commercial real estate.

Experience

Ms. Taylor’s experience includes advising:

China Life on its 70% investment acquisition of 10 Upper Bank Street (1 million square feet) in Canary Wharf for £795 million
Biomed Reality on acquiring Granta Park, a 472,200-square-foot multi-let science research park in Cambridge, for £127 million
Yucaipa on the real estate elements of acquiring Soho House, a private member club and hotel company
An investment client on lease restructuring for a trophy retail property in Bond Street, London with an annual rent of £4 million
Takeda UK on a multiple commercial lease transactions for various UK sites
A global manufacturing company on the European real estate aspects of selling one of its European businesses for US$1 billion
Cohen Media Group on the acquisition of Curzon Cinemas, the UK’s pre-eminent specialized cinema operator
DAZN, the global sports entertainment platform, in its attempt to acquire BT Sport
Wagamama, Duke Street, Hutton Collins, and the other selling shareholders on the real estate aspects of the sale to The Restaurant Group plc of Wagamama
An energy-transition infrastructure investor on the real estate aspects of the refinancing and subsequent £341 million sale of their UK power plants
Digital Realty on its US$8.4 billion combination with Interxion