The Metropolis of London industrial regulation agency Laytons ETL has launched an actual property company staff.
The division will service giant company occupiers, together with PLCs, in addition to company traders, throughout all main asset courses, together with places of work, retail, betting, industrial and logistics.
The company division might be led collectively by companions Simon Jones and Scott Hilton.
Jones mentioned: “This launch displays the standing of our staff as an more and more important participant on the company actual property scene.
“Over the past couple of years we’ve got made important progress bringing on board quite a lot of huge nationwide and worldwide manufacturers.
“This new observe, which brings in experience from throughout the agency, will allow us to supply the centered however multi-disciplinary service they require, and to determine ourselves as a key participant within the sector.”
Jones has been a accomplice at Laytons ETL since its merger in 2022 with the specialist industrial actual property agency he owned and led, Cannings Connolly.
Hilton joined Laytons ETL final yr from the London workplace of US agency Armstrong Teasdale, having beforehand constructed up his observe working for Metropolis corporations.
Different members of the brand new staff embody Senior Associates Harry O’Donnell and Shaan Patel, and Affiliate Sophie Hartley, supported by Govt Assistants Liz Wills and Kerry-Ann Matticks.
The division will work carefully with Laytons ETL’s tax and company groups to supply specialist recommendation on funding issues and the actual property components of company transactions.
It can additionally collaborate with colleagues within the agency’s dispute decision observe to handle actual property points that come up in conditions of company insolvency and restructuring.
Hilton mentioned: “By specializing in the wants of company shoppers, our new observe will allow us to reinforce the service we provide to the rising variety of big-ticket shoppers who’ve chosen Laytons ETL as their authorized accomplice, and in addition present us with a platform from which to develop additional on this market.”
