Alexander Chadwick
Partner
Alex is an experienced commercial real estate lawyer who advises clients on development, investment, corporate occupier and operational real estate transactions.
Partner
Alex is an experienced commercial real estate lawyer who advises clients on development, investment, corporate occupier and operational real estate transactions.
Languages - English
Jurisdiction - England & Wales
Alex has a track record of delivering transactions for clients across the entirety of the commercial real estate sector, utilising his commercial approach to identify and implement solutions to resolve deals efficiently. He has advised on some of the largest transactions in the English real estate market in the last few years, and advises clients across all sectors on the full range of asset classes, with a particular focus on regeneration and development, the living sector and hotels and leisure.
Alex is instructed by a wide range of clients, including institutional investment funds, local authorities, high net worth individuals, REITs, hotels and restaurants.
Alex is particularly recognised for his expertise in long income, alternative and innovative transaction structures that utilise commercial real estate to deliver investment and development opportunities for institutional funds, developers and end-users (including local authorities). He has experience in using those types of structures in connection with hotel, affordable housing and build to rent developments, as well as town centre regeneration projects.
Alex also regularly acts for corporate occupiers. In particular, he advises occupiers based overseas who are looking to establish an office presence in England and Wales, who value his ability to deliver concise advice that is tailored to their needs.
Disposal of a mixed-use £300 million Fitzrovia estate
Led on the successful disposal of a portfolio of 27 assets (spanning office, retail, leisure and residential use classes); the largest West End disposal of 2023.Alternative funding structures for development projects
Advising developers on implementing a series of long income structures for the development of various projects, including local authority housing in Dartford, the regeneration of a parade of shops in Stevenage, NHS accommodation in Maidstone and hotels in London Bridge and Royal Victoria Dock.Sale of The Forum Hotel in West London
Advising on the high profile £350 million disposal of the IHG branded Kensington Forum Hotel as part of a corporate wrapper transaction, on a vacant possession basis including advising on operational aspects of the deal.Regeneration of The Forum, Gloucester
Advising a developer client and local authority on the prominent regeneration of a development site in central Gloucester known as The Forum, including site assembly, subsequent grant-funding led development and ongoing portfolio management.
