Commercial Property

Commercial Property

Our Commercial Property team represents a broad spectrum of domestic and international clients – including developers, private and institutional investors, banks and other financial institutions, retailers, health care providers and public and semi-state bodies

Our highly experienced specialists offer expertise covering the full range of commercial property transactions, including site acquisition; construction and development; commercial leasing; sale and purchase of all types of commercial properties; secured lending; property syndication and other co-ownership arrangements.

 

We handle high value, sophisticated real estate disposals and acquisitions including office blocks, retail schemes, nursing homes and multi-family investments. We advise house builders on the setting up, construction and sale of housing schemes.

 

We offer expertise in large-scale property due diligence projects and the remediation of title and security problems. We advise mortgagees, receivers, liquidators, and examiners on dealing with distressed property assets, often working with our colleagues in our Banking, Corporate and Insolvency teams to provide an integrated service. We are also specialists in landlord and tenant issues, acting for landlords and tenants of all types of commercial property, including in the retail and healthcare sectors.

Relevant Experience
  • Acting for Friends First on the acquisition, re-structuring and sale of the Citypoint building in Eyre Square, Galway a fully let mixed retail, office and residential development.

  • Acting for A NAMA receiver on the sale of over 270 acres of mixed zoned development land at Tyrrelstown, County Dublin for a price in excess of €65m.

  • Acting for Tristan Capital Partners and SW3 on the newly planned EXO building, the 73 metre office building that will be Dublin’s tallest, located beside the Point Village at North Wall Quay in Dublin.

  • Acting for Tristan Capital Partners and SW3 on the €51m acquisition of 138 apartments at Elmfield, Leopardstown, Dublin 18.

  • Acting for NAMA on the disposal of the Emerald & Ruby and the Gem loan portfolios, being 2 of twhe top 5 European distressed property loan sales in 2016.

  • Acting for various successful purchasers and financiers in the “Project Stone” loan sale process being a distressed commercial real estate loan portfolio from IBRC, with a significant portion of the debt secured by Irish assets.

  • Acting for a US private equity firm in its acquisition of four prime office buildings located in Dublin’s Central Business District and the subsequent disposal of these assets to Starwood Property Trust, a US mortgage REIT. This deal, known as Project Molly, was the largest direct Irish real estate transaction of 2015.

  • Advising SW3 Capital & Tristan Capital Partners in the acquisition of 197 apartments, Neptune Block, Honeypark, Dun Laoghaire Co. Dublin for €72.55m.

Key Contacts

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