Practice Expertise
- Banking and Finance
- Corporate
- Corporate Structuring
- Fund Finance
Areas of Practice
- Banking and Finance
- Corporate
- Corporate Structuring
- Fund Finance
- Corporate Regulation and Compliance
- Cybersecurity and Data Protection
- Debt Funds
- Fund Formation
- Fund Listings
- Funds Regulation and Compliance
- Funds Strategies and Asset Classes
- Hedge Funds
- Infrastructure Funds
- Investment Business
- Investment Funds
- Investment Managers
- IPOs and Equity Capital Markets
- Joint Ventures
- Listed Funds
- Listing REITs
- Listing Services
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Private Equity Funds
- Real Estate Finance
- Real Estate Funds
- Restructuring and Winding Up
- The International Stock Exchange View More
Profile
Claire advises clients in respect of corporate, jersey funds and banking matters.
Her principal practice area is corporate real estate and jersey funds (both listed and non-listed). Claire has acted on numerous fund structurings and re-structurings, co-investments and portfolio acquisitions and refinancings. She acts mainly borrower/sponsor side on real estate finance transactions as well as for buyer and seller on M&A matters.
Claire's key clients include:
- Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate plc;
- M7 Real Estate Ltd;
- The Blackstone Group;
- Harbert Management Corporation;
- Supermarket Income REIT plc;
- Realty Income Corporation
Her transactions of note include advising on the Jersey aspects of:
1. Blackstone's €21 million recapitalisation of Mileway, a pan European logistics company.
2. M7's Real Estate Ltd's acquisition of a £156.9 million UK retail parks portfolio
3. Harbert Management Corporation's sale of two of the UK's best known industrial estates for £480 million to Blackstone;
4. Realty Income Corporation's acquisition of 12 properties from a JV of J. Sainsbury's and British Land for £429 million;
5. Blackstone Capital and Blackstone Real Estate's acquisition of Bourne Leisure, a UK based leisure and holiday company.
Her principal practice area is corporate real estate and jersey funds (both listed and non-listed). Claire has acted on numerous fund structurings and re-structurings, co-investments and portfolio acquisitions and refinancings. She acts mainly borrower/sponsor side on real estate finance transactions as well as for buyer and seller on M&A matters.
Claire's key clients include:
- Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate plc;
- M7 Real Estate Ltd;
- The Blackstone Group;
- Harbert Management Corporation;
- Supermarket Income REIT plc;
- Realty Income Corporation
Her transactions of note include advising on the Jersey aspects of:
1. Blackstone's €21 million recapitalisation of Mileway, a pan European logistics company.
2. M7's Real Estate Ltd's acquisition of a £156.9 million UK retail parks portfolio
3. Harbert Management Corporation's sale of two of the UK's best known industrial estates for £480 million to Blackstone;
4. Realty Income Corporation's acquisition of 12 properties from a JV of J. Sainsbury's and British Land for £429 million;
5. Blackstone Capital and Blackstone Real Estate's acquisition of Bourne Leisure, a UK based leisure and holiday company.
Areas of Practice
- Banking and Finance
- Corporate
- Corporate Structuring
- Fund Finance
- Corporate Regulation and Compliance
- Cybersecurity and Data Protection
- Debt Funds
- Fund Formation
- Fund Listings
- Funds Regulation and Compliance
- Funds Strategies and Asset Classes
- Hedge Funds
- Infrastructure Funds
- Investment Business
- Investment Funds
- Investment Managers
- IPOs and Equity Capital Markets
- Joint Ventures
- Listed Funds
- Listing REITs
- Listing Services
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Private Equity Funds
- Real Estate Finance
- Real Estate Funds
- Restructuring and Winding Up
- The International Stock Exchange
Professional Career
Significant Accomplishments
Claire qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2005 (currently non-practising) working at London law firm Memery Crystal. She has been at Carey Olsen since 2006 and qualified as a Jersey advocate in 2011. In 2010 Claire spent four months on secondment at top PRC law firm King & Wood’s Shanghai office.
Claire obtained her LLB and LPC at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University.
Recent Experience
- A guide to funds and private equity in Jersey
- Jersey limited partnerships
- A guide to JPUTs (Jersey Property Unit Trusts)
- Jersey Private Funds
- Jersey Expert Funds
- Jersey Listed Funds
- Jersey fund structures
- A round-up of the recent updates affecting investment funds in Jersey
- Carey Olsen promotes four lawyers to the partnership across BVI, Guernsey and Jersey offices
- Quarterly round-up of the recent investment funds updates in Jersey
- The new JFSC outsourcing policy: are you in scope?
- An overview of Jersey funds: Comparative table
Claire qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2005 (currently non-practising) working at London law firm Memery Crystal. She has been at Carey Olsen since 2006 and qualified as a Jersey advocate in 2011. In 2010 Claire spent four months on secondment at top PRC law firm King & Wood’s Shanghai office.
Claire obtained her LLB and LPC at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University.
Recent Experience
- A guide to funds and private equity in Jersey
- Jersey limited partnerships
- A guide to JPUTs (Jersey Property Unit Trusts)
- Jersey Private Funds
- Jersey Expert Funds
- Jersey Listed Funds
- Jersey fund structures
- A round-up of the recent updates affecting investment funds in Jersey
- Carey Olsen promotes four lawyers to the partnership across BVI, Guernsey and Jersey offices
- Quarterly round-up of the recent investment funds updates in Jersey
- The new JFSC outsourcing policy: are you in scope?
- An overview of Jersey funds: Comparative table
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