Emma Roche
Of Counsel
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Location
London, Cambridge
Profile
Services
Emma is an of counsel in the commercial real estate team. She is a ranked lawyer in London in the Legal 500 UK Solicitors, the leading guide to law firms and solicitors in the UK. Emma specialises in providing real estate advice to UK and off-shore private wealth sector clients. She regularly acts for high net-worth individuals, family offices, trust funds and investors.
Her private wealth sector expertise covers all elements of real estate investment from acquisition, through to portfolio management, refinancing, and disposal.
Emma also has a great deal of experience advising both landlords and corporate occupiers on complex leasehold structures. Having acted for a wide array of corporate occupier clients, from established multi-national healthcare providers to tech start-ups, she has an in-depth understanding of the commercial and legal issues faced by a corporate occupier client entering into a lease of new premises.
Emma invests in building long-term relationships with her clients and their other professional advisors, in order to ensure that her advice is tailored to her clients’ individual aims and objectives.
Career Highlights
- Acting for a US-based international healthcare organisation in its acquisition of its London HQ leasehold premises with an annual rent of £1 million per annum over a 10 year term;
- Responsible for the management of an investment portfolio exceeding 50 commercial units with a mix of office, creative space, retail and restaurants in North London and managing the £50 million refinance of the portfolio;
- Acting as part of lead supermarket’s site acquisitions team and lead legal advisor on numerous schemes in the south east of England.