Neil Stafford

Expertise

Neil is a Commercial Real Estate lawyer, specialising in investment, development and asset management work for investment funds, property companies and entrepreneurs, together with acquisitions for corporate occupiers. His experience includes transacting trophy London office buildings, the letting, sale and refurbishment and reconfiguration of retail parks, and the acquisition, asset management and sale of shopping centres and industrial estates. Neil has acted for private funds in the investment period (including portfolio acquisitions) through asset management and then on to eventual sale of the assets. Neil also acts for corporate occupiers including insurance companies and hedge funds taking space in the City and West End.

Neil Advises

• Institutional investors
• Family offices
• Property companies
• Entrepreneurs
• Corporate occupiers

Experience Highlights

• Series of industrial/retail acquisitions and financings for Multi-Family Office
• Sorting out multiple title issues and transactional errors across a portfolio of London properties that a longstanding client was appointed to turnaround and sell
• Completion of all the lettings in a refurbished high-value West End office followed by the sale of the building to an overseas investor
• Transacting high-value London offices, Retail Parks and Shopping Centres

Career History

Previous Law Firms

• Maxwell Batley/Maxwell Winward
• Blake Morgan
• Cannings Connolly 

Education

• University of Manchester