Graham Cutts
Partner Corporate & Finance
Languages
English
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Recommended in the Legal 500 2020
Graham advises clients on all aspects of UK commercial real estate, with a focus on office investment, corporate occupiers, life sciences and logistics. Graham recognises that deals are not contests. They're a collaborative process that require some give and take on both sides. Clients rely on Graham's ability to make their real estate strategies easier: he does that by focussing on the commercial imperatives, avoiding legal point-scoring and being a straight talking negotiator.
Graham has acted on many high value and complex transactions. He's acted for: a PE client buying an iconic UK entertainment venue; an institutional JV buying into and pre-letting London's newest skyscraper (currently under construction); multiple corporates (including other law firms) on HQ relocations; public and private entities on warehouse development fundings; PE S&LB transactions; institutional investors buying and selling trophy offices and an iconic brand buying into a UK premium F&B business.
Graham's three recommendations in the Legal 500 are testament to the feedback and reliance that clients place in his ability to deliver in a way that exceeds their expectations.
Recommended in the Legal 500 2020
Representative experience
Acting for ICG on the acquisition of the iconic OVO (Wembley) Arena.
Acting on the holding structure, development management and pre-letting of London's newest skyscraper (currently under construction).
Acting for ICG on the S&LB of the Iron Mountain UK portfolio.
Acting for M&G Real Estate on the purchase and sale of Bankside 1, 2 and 3 on London's Southbank.
Acting for Asahi on the real estate aspects of its £250 million acquisition of the entire premium beer business of Fuller, Smith & Turner's.
Acting for The Crown Estate in connection with the entirety of its offshore wind portfolio.
Acting for ICG on the acquisition of mission critical Royal Mail distribution hub.
Acting for ICG on the development funding of a logistics hub to be occupied by British Salt
Acting for the BBC on the sale of Television Centre.
Acting for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority on a joint venture with Goodman International for the development of an atomic research facility and life sciences campus in Harwell, Oxford.
Acting for The St James's Partnership on the pre-letting of St James's Market in London's West End.
Acting for M&G's retail fund on the purchase of Riverside House in London, HQ of OFCOM, for £120m from IVG.
Acting for several corporate, financial, law firm and media clients on their HQ relocations.
Acting for M&G Real Estate on the development-funding of three logistics distribution centres.
Acting for Eli Lilly on the sale of its UK portfolio and the pre-letting of its new UK HQ.
Credentials
- LL.B., University of Durham
- LPC, The College of Law, London
- IPF