Real Estate

Commercial Property & Asset Management

Expert property lawyers advising on investment, disposal & management. Trusted support across acquisitions, portfolios, lending & more.

Expert commercial property lawyers

In an evolving market, we stay ahead of the curve; keeping our client’s decisions and strategies for ongoing investment, disposal and management informed and successful.

Whether you are looking for tailored support on a single transaction or in respect of a wider portfolio, we have capability and expertise across the full real estate spectrum (including acquisitions, disposals, landlord & tenant, portfolio management, corporate support and secured lending). Working alongside and collaborating with you, our team of 135+ dedicated property specialists can advise at every step of your investment journey, ensuring that your business draws what it needs from each of its properties.

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Our services

The team act for a wide range of asset managers, institutions, corporates and commercial developers on the acquisition and disposal of property assets as well as all aspects of ongoing portfolio management.

Our landlord and tenant specialists are experienced in advising on both landlord and tenant side and focus on providing timely, pragmatic, concise advice with a high level of service.

The team are adept at advising on title issues arising from freehold and leasehold transactions and regard litigation as a tool to achieve a result rather than just a process to be followed.

Our planning & environment team has the expertise to help you understand the planning process, ensuring that you receive the best planning legal advice tailored to your needs – covering everything from strategic policy, environmental considerations and regulations, national guidance, obtaining and implementing consents, appeals and legal challenges, novel consenting regimes, due diligence, planning and highways agreements, Environmental Impact Assessment, Biodiversity Net Gain, permitting and licensing – we advise on all these and more.

Our construction team works with clients from project conception to completion and beyond, advising on procurement methodology as well as drafting and negotiating a full range of appropriate construction documentation. We provide advice on both contentious and non-contentious matters.

Our tax team can provide transactional support on a range of property tax issues.

Our team has extensive experience on telecoms matters, both contentious and non-contentious as both the Electronic Communications Code and the 1954 Act apply.

Our team are experienced in supporting all parties to an investment transaction from large pension funds, real estate investment funds and investment managers in relation to sales and purchases, development funding, and landlord and tenant work (and a range of other services) across their portfolios.

The firm has a blended practice acting for lenders and borrowers and we have a real interest in the assets in the sector, and we look at risks and outcomes based on our experience of the particular sensitivities of different assets.

Why choose Foot Anstey?

We provide client focused advice across the full range of commercial property transactions, including portfolio management, acquisitions & disposals and landlord & tenant matters. We also work alongside our Corporate, Banking & Finance teams to provide tailored support on corporate and secured lending transactions.

Our experience spans commercial property and asset management across leisure and hospitality, offices, industrial, warehousing & logistics, transport & mobility, energy, infrastructure, utilities, telecoms, ports, space & satellite, retail & roadside, and charity and developer sectors. We keep at the front of market trends, using our sector expertise to help clients navigate the changing landscape – this can be legally, strategically or with innovative technology solutions. Find out more about our Sectors.

Partnering with clients, we focus on ensuring that objectives are met and that the ongoing commercial relationship between the parties is set for success. As an example, our experience in acting for both landlord and tenant clients allows us to bring our expertise from one side of the table to the other, to find consensus and compromise.

We have key expertise in property management, from strategic asset management and estate rationalisation through to acquisitions and disposals. Whether it is day to day portfolio management, a simple transaction or a complex problem, our focus is to provide cost effective strategic solutions. In many instances we take on our client’s targets as our own, sharing them visually on our Ingenuity dashboard, so the client team is aware in real time of the status of matters which may affect their corporate or team targets.

All our work is strongly supported by the firm’s other specialist service teams, including planning, environmental, construction and tax.

Recent experience

Shopping centre investment portfolio

Working closely with a real estate investment company in relation to their shopping centre portfolio, including contentious and non-contentious matters, and working closely with agents and property managers – including advising on over 100 leasing matters, lease re-gears and the implementation of lease breaks to achieve development targets.

Household name landed estate

We acted for a well-known landed estate and leisure destination in the South of England,for the landmark expansion of their sole worldwide manufacturing facility and global headquarters located on the Estate.

 

 

 

 

Private Equity portfolios

Supporting Private Equity houses, companies and portfolios on all property needs throughout the portfolio lifecycle, from acquisition through to exit (and for international portfolios, project managing and co-ordinating overseas counsel).

Household name national retailer

We exclusively manage the national portfolio of 850+ stores for a well-known retailer. Alongside our role as trusted advisor, we act in relation to the continued expansion of the portfolio, lease renewals and ongoing estate management.

Our people

We have a well-established Real Estate team of 135+ property lawyers, advising on the full range of property law including commercial property, asset management, planning & environmental, construction, tax and real estate disputes.

Our lawyers draw from a range of relevant backgrounds and experiences, enabling a breadth of knowledgeable and considered advice. The team also has in-house experience, whether as part of their careers or on secondment, enabling us to embody the voice of our clients in negotiations. We take time to get to know our clients and their businesses, aligning targets and ambitions and finding workable solutions for now and the future.

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What do our clients say?

“(Foot Anstey) have strong technical expertise and adopt a collaborative approach to working through problems.”

Legal 500 2025

“Carol Phillips is solution focused. She is great at cutting through complex scenarios to find a sensible outcome.”

Legal 500 2025

“Portia Welbourne-Jones is a pleasure to work with. She is measured, concise, and clear in her approach.”

Legal 500 2025

“User-friendly, responsive and commercial.”

Legal 500 2025

“John Catchpole and his team have done an impeccable job dealing with several property transactions for us over the last few years so he’s our go to property lawyer.”

Rob Faro, T Clark

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