Catriona Berman
Partner
Catriona is a real estate expert, adept at guiding clients through complex investment and development transactions.
Partner
Catriona is a real estate expert, adept at guiding clients through complex investment and development transactions.
Languages - English
Jurisdiction(s) - England & Wales
Catriona is an experienced real estate lawyer known for handling complex, high-value transactions across a wide range of sectors. She has advised on everything from luxury hotel acquisitions and Central London office developments to out-of-town business parks and the repurposing of big-box stores and industrial sites. Her expertise includes bringing logistics and industrial warehouse portfolios from site assembly through financing, development, leasing, and disposal.
Catriona is skilled in structuring deals using both domestic and offshore corporate vehicles, including joint ventures and corporate acquisitions or disposals. Her diverse project experience has, over the years, covered transforming TV studios into residential developments, and working on airports, refineries, pipelines, office towers, and holiday parks.
She regularly acts for private investors, sponsors and institutional lenders on regeneration and development projects. Catriona also advises rail industry clients on developments around depots and stations, and supports private equity investments by handling the real estate aspects. Additionally, she helps companies with office moves, space acquisitions, and other occupational needs, always bringing a problem-solving approach to complex deals.
Clients value Catriona's ability to solve problems efficiently and her commitment to their success. Her work with major hospitality groups and life sciences investors highlights her capacity to manage intricate real estate transactions and deliver results that align with her clients' strategic goals.
Real estate investment
Advises real estate funds, individuals, and companies on property acquisition, development, finance, letting, and sale, as well as on buying and selling investments, including portfolios, with effective leasing strategies.
Investment funds
Advising real estate funds on acquisitions and disposals of property in line with their investment criteria, from core office funds to value-add and opportunistic strategies, working for both equity and debt funds throughout the capital stack.
Real estate development
Advises developers and sponsors on mixed-use regeneration projects with public and private funding, often in partnership with local government or public bodies.
Landlord and tenant
Acting for both landlords and tenants in a range of occupational scenarios, including major hospitality companies on a range of real estate transactions, leasing of industrial and logistics units' sites and managing lettings and other asset management matters.
Life sciences
Advising Mission Street on site acquisition, development, overage arrangements and financing in connection with its portfolio of developments in Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol. Regularly advises on the real estate aspects of M&A transactions in the life sciences sector.
Hotels and leisure
Advising on acquisition, development and disposal of hotel properties and large international hospitality groups on acquisitions and disposal, development and re-gearing of their portfolio, and on managing occupational tenants, such as food and beverage outlets.
