SJ Berwin, led by real estate partner Lewis Myers, has advised British Land on its £300m sale of interests in a UK and Scottish residential property portfolio to clients of Insight Investment and a contract for the portfolio’s ongoing asset management. DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, led by real estate partner Duncan Pickering and corporate partner Elizabeth Walters, advised Insight. Semple Fraser, led by property partner Ewan Thompson, advised on Scottish conveyancing issues.
Herbert Smith, led by real estate partner Philip Beer, has advised Nanjing Automobile, the Chinese firm which bought MG Rover, on a £1.8m lease agreement to restart production at MG Rover’s Longbridge plant. Wragge & Co advised the landlord of the main site, St Modwen, and Hammonds advised AWM as landlord of outer parts of the site.
