Sam Harris

Sam Harris, senior associate, helps domestic and overseas clients on a wide variety of real estate matters, including investment acquisitions and disposals, property development, financings, corporate transactions and all aspects of landlord and tenant work.

Clients turn to Sam for his experience in acting on high profile and value central London investment transactions and development projects as well as his significant expertise in the industrial and logistics sector.

Advised:

• British Land on sale of a 75% interest in Paddington Central campus to GIC for £694 million and associated joint venture formation
• Realterm, a global investment manager focused on transportation industry, on asset acquisition of a distribution facility in Crawley, UK currently let to Yodel
• Cabot Properties Inc., an international private equity real estate firm, on a £400 million portfolio sale of industrial and logistics assets spanning UK, Germany and Netherlands to Blackstone
• Realterm, a global investment manager focused on transportation industry, on first UK investment with acquisition and financing of two final mile and transload facilities from Marks & Spencer plc
• Cabot Properties Inc., an international private equity real estate firm, on the sale of a portfolio of UK industrial and logistics assets to London Metric for £116 million
• Cabot Properties Inc., an international private equity real estate firm, on all ongoing UK industrial and logistics acquisitions and disposals
• British Land on pre-letting of over 83,000 sq ft headquarter office space to Virgin Media O2 at Paddington Central
• Kingswood Edge Limited on its £400 million purchase of 30 Gresham Street
• Värde Partners on the purchase of Bizspace Group (a UK flexible co-working provider) for approximately £138 million
• AT&T on global portfolio sale of global colocation datacentre business to Brookfield for $1.1 billion
• British Land on the sale of trophy asset The Leadenhall Building (aka the “Cheesegrater”) to CC Land for £1.15 billion
• Overseas investor on the £50 million forward purchase of serviced apartment block forming part of the Islington Square development

• Listed as a key lawyer for Real Estate, Sam Harris has "a depth of experience". Legal 500.

• England and Wales