Callum Hassall Partner

Experience

• Representing Carpenter Co., a global, diversified and world class chemical company, in its €454 million acquisition of the engineered foam business line of Recticel SA/NV (ENXTBR: REC), a Belgium-based manufacturer of polyurethane foam.
• Advising Energizer Holdings Inc, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of batteries, on the grant of a new 15-year lease of 103,000 square feet industrial unit at Tafarnaubach Industrial Estate, Tredegar.
• Advising Thrive Parent Holdings, LLC, a cybersecurity and digital transformation managed services provider, on the real estate aspects of a share acquisition of UK company, Custard Technical Services Limited.
• Co-ordinating a multi-practice team of lawyers representing a leading provider of retirement living services in its acquisition and financing of a new senior living facility in the UK.
• Advising a multinational pharmaceutical company on its UK property portfolio, including acquisitions, disposals and landlord and tenant matters.
• Providing wide-ranging advice to a US multi-industry company on property matters in connection with its UK real estate portfolio.
• Representing a joint venture partner in connection with conditional share purchases of property holding companies and asset purchases in connection with care home development projects.
• Advising on the share acquisition of an operating student accommodation provider for in excess of £135 million.
• Advising a digital solutions company in the connection with the leasehold acquisition of national headquarters and the subsequent refurbishment and remodelling of the building.
• Providing real estate advice to a special opportunities investment firm lending acquisition finance to the buyer of a mixed-use tower comprising of office premises, a multi-storey car park and social housing.
• Advising high net worth individuals on the off-plan purchase of residential apartments in a Thames-side development for circa £9 million.
• Co-ordinating the real estate aspects of the financing of a new shopping centre for the aggregate amount of £180 million.
• Advising a European investment fund on the acquisition of prime London real estate for the purposes of mixed use re-development.
• Providing English law real estate advice to a consortium led by a multinational banking firm and a premier hospitality investment and management company in the acquisition, acquisition financing, and debt restructuring of a European hotel portfolio.
• Providing real estate advice to a large international residential real estate developer in connection with its debut European investment relating to a consortium behind a £750 million East London re-development.
• Providing real estate advice in connection with the sale of shares in a Jersey company holding prime London office premises for in excess of £275 million. Prior to the sale, advising on the management of the asset including the surrender of an intermediate lease and relocating an existing tenant to a different floor in the building.
• Advising a subsidiary of a pension and investment fund on the sale of a 15 storey grade A office building in Manchester, reflecting a net initial yield of 5.05 per cent – a record yield for office premises in the regional market.
• Advising a FTSE 250 REIT on the acquisition of a newly developed 20,000 square foot retail park in Warrington.
• Advising a specialist fund in connection with the sale of all land interests at a business park which included 6 multi-let investment office assets and circa 40 acres of undeveloped land, subject to complex options to build out certain parcels with co-operation of the buyer, together with the exiting and hand-over of control of the park management company.
• Providing real estate advice to a UK and European property investment company on the sale of a multi-let property portfolio, in two transactions, for a total of £146 million.
• Advising a data management and software company on the grant of a new lease of office premises in the City of London.
• Providing real estate advice to a property fund on the refinancing of an existing facility agreement in the aggregate amount of £350 million and the extension of fund life maturity.
• Acting on the acquisition of a long leasehold interest in a 25 acre industrial estate from LPA Receivers and further to the acquisition, drafting and negotiating new lettings of individual units on the estate.
• Recognising the implications of and co-ordinating responses in connection with tax, construction, planning and environmental matters on real estate and corporate real estate transactions.