Jo advises institutional investors and credit funds on high-value portfolio acquisitions, real estate investment and finance, acting on landmark transactions, and is known for a commercial, clear and efficient approach to complex deal structures.

Joanna's experience

  • Advised a real estate investment company on the sale and transfer of property in Mayfair.

  • Advising Heylo Housing, one of the UK's leading providers of affordable homes, on the negotiation and agreement of a new framework agreement with one major UK housebuilder, which has been used to contract on over 200 units so far with a continued pipeline expected and contracts with another major housebuilder to acquire more than 350 units in the last 6 months.

  • Advising Dobbies, a leading garden centre retailer, on the acquisition and development of their new garden centre at the Junction, Antrim, the refinancing of their property portfolio and the installation of electric vehicle charging stations at a number of locations and and acquisitions of garden centres across England.

  • Advised Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Limited on its share sale of Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Limited, which is Saint-Gobain’s UK distribution business. This involved extensive property due diligence on over 1,000 properties across NI and the UK, using innovative technology under tight deadlines.

  • Acting for Kennedy Wilson on the asset management of a number of its industrial/logistics investment funds.

  • Acting on behalf of NatWest in relation to the transfer of the business of Ulster Bank Limited to NatWest under the Court approved process permitted by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 including the preparation and registration of a bulk transfer of a portfolio of securities.

  • Acted for a housing association on its entry into a banking facility with the European Investment Bank.

  • Advised Fairfield Real Estate Finance Services Limited on the development of the Oxford Technology Park. This matter is a significant transaction for them. It has demonstrated the success of a large scale development despite the challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic has presented.

  • Advised Habagou Properties Limited on the sale of its office asset in Willow Court, Oxford, as well as general property advice in assets in Northern Ireland.

  • Acting for Habagou Properties, the transaction property company of TCI as its asset management and proposed sale of properties in Oxford. As well as general property advice in assets in Northern Ireland.

Credentials

  • 2017
    Made Partner at Pinsent Masons
  • 2014
    Joined Pinsent Masons
  • 2008
    Arthur Cox, Senior Associate
  • 2008
    Qualified - Northern Ireland
  • 2005
    Qualified - England and Wales
  • 2003
    Ashurst LLP, Associate
  • 2003
    BPP Law School – LPC
  • 2002
    BPP Law School – PGDL
  • 2000
    Rhodes University – LLB
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