Alex Vlachos

Expertise

Alex is a highly experienced Commercial Real Estate Partner, who has over 25 years of experience. He has experience dealing with all types of commercial real estate, but holds specific expertise in complex and large-scale developments, the acquisition and disposal of real estate, owner and occupier matters, rail-related work and infrastructure projects.

Alex Advises

Alex has a range of clients, including UK Government-owned companies and US Fortune 500 companies. He also deals with owners of London properties, developers, landed estates and other properties. Alex also has experience in working with companies in the leisure, retail, food and beverages spaces, as well as fashion houses.

Experience Highlights

• Acting on a number of station developments (with complex SDLT structures). These included the relocation of Eurostar from Waterloo to St Pancras
• Heading and advising on a project with a value of over £500 million in the infrastructure space
• Advising and heading on all port-related real estate aspects for the £1.5 billion regeneration of a former oil refinery. This included development, environmental and CPO for the site that became both nationally and internationally significant
• Heading and closing all real estate matters of an international asset sale, which had a value of $380 million
• Advising on all real estate matters for a tokenisation program major mixed-use development in London
• Acting on major disposals of land with complex uplift provisions, including one that saw the development of 93 houses
• Acting on behalf of developers, owners and promoters of major developments to include a particular specialisation in those requiring agreements with Network Rail. This included an initial phased program of 1,999 houses
• Acting on a £30 million commercial real estate purchase in prime central London for a drinks industry charity
• Managing and advising on part of an owner’s prime London real estate portfolio
• Managing and advising on a landed estate
• Advising and negotiating leases and agreements for leases on behald of food and retail tenants. This included turnover and pre-emption rights
• Advising occupiers headquarters on major relocations (to include for Belmond)
• Negotiating leases and agreements for the owner of major stations with complex pre-emption provisions and turnover
• Negotiating leases and agreements for the owner of a major shopping centre
• Acting and advising both domestically and internationally for an occupier with an annual turnover of over $17.5 billion on their office and warehouse occupation. This included new build warehouses

Career History

Previous Law Firms

• Headed the Real Estate department of a central London law firm

Education

• University of Southampton, LLB