Karen Halsey

Karen Halsey

Consultant Partner

Real Estate

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Karen is an experienced lawyer specialising in all aspects of non-contentious real estate matters. Before joining Acuity, she was a legal director at DLA Piper.

She has acted for some of the UK’s biggest institutional landlords and tenants, undertaking all types of investment and management work. She has a particular specialism in distressed real estate. 

More recently Karen has assisted house builders with site acquisition, development  and disposal, as well as providing real estate support on company acquisitions and transactions, and helping start up companies venturing into property for the first time.

*Karen Halsey is a Consultant at Acuity Law working on a self-employed basis*

 

Expertise
  • Real estate
  • Commercial property investment and asset management
  • Distressed real estate
  • Residential property development
  • Landlord and tenant

Work Highlights

Acting on the acquisition by a privately owned investment and asset management company of Birmingham’s famous Custard Factory at the heart of its creative quarter, a deal that adopted the innovative use of artificial intelligence to dramatically accelerate the transaction.
Undertaking a secondment as General Counsel to a property investment and technology company that owns and manages 20 acres of prime real estate across Camden Market and the West End.
Acting for a number of banks and insolvency practitioners on a variety of asset management, disposals and restructuring matters; of particular note: what is now the Ham Yard Hotel; the former “second Odeon cinema” at Leicester Square; residential and commercial developments, including what was reported in 2018 as “one of Britain’s most expensive homes”.

Accolades

The Real Estate Team is ranked Band 1 by Chambers and Partners

Chambers and Partners


The Commercial Property Team is ranked Tier 1 in the Legal 500

Legal 500