Catherine Hood

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catherine.hood@shoosmiths.co.uk

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Catherine is a real estate lawyer who works to enable real estate investors, developers and corporate occupiers to successfully fulfil their property requirements. She has 20 years of experience including a three year part-time secondment to a shopping centre developer as sole in-house counsel. Her special expertise is in the management of complex and multi property deals and she has a particular interest in automotive, health and shopping centre sectors.

Examples of the types of work Catherine has undertaken include:

acquiring landmark listed building 55 Colmore Row, Birmingham and working on the financing, ongoing redevelopment letting and subsequent sale for ?98m for IM Properties plc;

Working with IM Properties on their industrial and logistics development at Hinkley.

negotiating and agreeing legal documentation for CBRE's new office in Birmingham;

advising a French motor vehicle manufacturer on all aspects of their English property portfolio including acquisitions, taking leases, redevelopment, underlettings, and disposals (including a nine property sale and leaseback) and the sale of their main UK assembly plant;

providing real estate support to purchaser's principal legal advisor on Project Isobel (RBS debt sale with a value of over ?1billion). Managing a team which reviewed security over 900 properties.