Sally Martin is a counsel in our Real Estate practice with extensive experience in handling all aspects of real estate, particularly landlord and tenant, acquisitions and disposals, refinancing real estate portfolios, sale and leasebacks, real estate investment funds and real estate aspects of corporate transactions.

Sally joined the Firm at the end of 2003 from a leading international law firm.

Examples of recent representations include:

• Lead associate acting for Doughty Hanson (one of the largest European real estate funds) and Liberty Property Trust (a US-based REIT) on their joint venture acquisition of Blythe Valley Business Park from The British Land Company Plc for up to £161 million;
• Acting for Doughty Hanson in relation to their joint venture with Liberty Property Trust and acquisition of 20 office buildings at Kings Hill Business Park, Kent;
• Acting for Doughty Hanson on their £60 million acquisition of the Old Mall Shopping Centre in Salisbury;
• Lead associate acting for Land Securities Trillium in a precedent-setting property outsourcing arrangement with Barclays Bank PLC relating to surplus leasehold property (and including the sale and leaseback of three office buildings at Westwood Business Park in Coventry), subsequently followed by the addition of a further portfolio of Barclays' properties;
• Representing Land Securities Trillium on their corporate restructuring and refinancing programme connected to the outsourcing of hundreds of Government properties;
• Continued representation of Telereal Trillium on the running of its diverse property portfolio;
• Acting for a leading global energy company in connection with the letting and management of its London-based properties;
• Acting for Starwood Capital Europe on its £30 million acquisition of a multitenanted office tower in London and, subsequently on its joint venture with Great Portland Estates Plc, including the sale and purchase of adjoining premises and financing of the two properties;
• Lead associate acting for Telereal Trillium on the sale of its long leasehold interest in Westwood Business Park, Coventry for circa £20 million.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales, 1997

Education
LPC, Nottingham Law School, 1995
LLB, Birmingham University, 1993

Languages
English
French

Citizenship
United Kingdom