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Industrial and logistics

Our industrial and logistics lawyers can help you make the most of your assets whilst navigating the legal and commercial landscape of this key built environment sector.

Our national team has significant experience advising on all aspects of the industrial and logistics sector. Advising developers, investors, funds and occupiers gives us a well-rounded market perspective, enabling us to work collaboratively with our clients to achieve their commercial objectives by combining deep sector insight with market leading advice. We have a strong understanding of the value and importance of these assets to our clients’ businesses and operations and advise on acquisitions, developments, disposals, landlord and tenant work, and financing - spanning investment portfolios, multi-let investments and single-unit sites.

Our experience

With industrial and logistics expertise embedded across the built environment sector at the firm our team includes specialists in planning, construction, environmental, real estate disputes and real estate finance. Our breadth of experience include:

  • Supporting Goya/Hillwood across a range of sites within their portfolio in the south east – from acquisition through development, and all landlord and tenant advice - including pre-lets. A key highlight has been advising on the full lifecycle of their prime logistics hub in High Wycombe, from acquisition through to disposal.
  • Advising a global real estate investment, development and management firm on the refinancing of five industrial and logistics facilities located in the northern logistics corridor of England and undertaking all asset management across this portfolio together with a portfolio of three multi-let estates.
  • Advising on the investment acquisition and subsequent disposal of 12 Waxlow Road, Park Royal, London. The single-let, large-scale industrial asset was sold to GLP for £48 million.
  • Adviser to Frontier Agriculture on all aspects of its national property portfolio, with recent work including the grant of a 20-year lease of its key operational site in Braintree, Essex.
  • Played a leading role in the acquisition and development of the Four Ashes Business Park which created around 1 million sq. ft of logistics and advanced manufacturing space including: site assembly, off site agreements, the forward funding development and sale of Plot 2 to First Panattoni.

Our clients

We act for a broad range of clients operating in the sector including developers, pension and investment funds (including international funds), manufacturers, logistics businesses, owner occupiers, through to smaller operators. Our clients include the likes of:

  • Goya/Hillwood
  • Consolidated Timber Holdings
  • Mawdsley-Brooks & Co

What our clients say about us

  • We have worked with Graham Collier and the real estate team at Mills & Reeve in relation to all aspects of property law - investment, asset management and property management. They are reliable, effective and a pleasure to work with, and I would be happy to recommend their services.
    Harry Ingham, Hillwood
  • Nick, Danielle and the wider team at Mills & Reeve handle all the legal matters relating to our property with great diligence and impressive speed. Importantly, their advice is always commercial and pragmatic which protects our interests while still getting the job done. Beyond their professional expertise, they are genuinely nice people who make complex legal matters feel straightforward. We cannot recommend them highly enough.
    David Alliston, Frontier Agriculture

Mapping the FutuRE

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