JOHN CONDLIFFE

John has over 20 years of transactional real estate law experience across all sectors and deal types.

He has bought trophy buildings in central London, developed distribution hubs for major retailers and helped large corporate occupiers get rid of their lease liabilities.  He has also dealt with properties in almost every town and city across the country. Most of all he enjoys being part of the real estate market and how it has an impact on everything we do.

Work Highlights

• Acted on the acquisitions of Devonshire House London W1, the Adelphi Building London WC2, the Post Building London WC1, 6 St James’s Square London SW1 and the Oriana retail scheme anchored by Primark at the Tottenham Court Road end of Oxford Street, for over £2 billion in total.

• Acted on Barclays Bank’s Canary Wharf occupations for many years, including the disposal of 540,000 square feet to the Cabinet Office.

• Acted for SeveralUK pension funds on all their significant acquisitions and developments, including forward fundings of office, industrial and retail schemes, and acquisitions and disposals of retail parks, shopping centres, office parks and central London office buildings.

• Acted on CCLA Investment Management on all their English properties for over 20 years, including an investment programme to increase the total fund size from £300m to nearly £2bn.