Addleshaw Goddard's real estate practice is consistently recognised by both Legal 500 and Chambers as one of the premier real estate firms in the UK. Our highly regarded City practice and our pre-eminent Leeds and Manchester offices give us the expertise and capacity to handle the largest and most complex transactions across all sectors of the property industry.
These three highly capable offices provide consistently high quality advice and allow us to offer the optimum combination of price and quality. We bring a wealth of experience and understanding of our clients' business environment enabling us to give both excellent technical legal advice and also to support our clients' commercial objectives.
Our continued support of Location Leeds is testament to our commitment to business in the North East and representatives from our real estate, construction, real estate finance and structured real estate teams will once again be at MIPIM 2008.
Contact:
Paula Dillon
Tel: 0113 209 2396
Email: paula.dillon@addleshawgoddard.com
Website: www.addleshawgoddard.co.uk
A leading, multi-award winning design practice, careyjones has 20 years experience providing architecture, interior design, master planning and urban design across all construction sectors. careyjones has 150 staff in design studios in London, Leeds and New York. As a Practice careyjones is committed to sustainable design and to sustainable business practice.
careyjones architects has established an enviable reputation for award-winning design underpinned with technical expertise. With its Director-led design team structure and studios on both sides of the Atlantic, careyjones architects is able to deliver on projects of any size in any geographical location.
One of the most sought after interior design teams, careyjones interiors has a global reputation for delivering award-winning projects from custom-crafted apartments and restaurants to corporate banking headquarters and signature casino resorts.
Contact:
Gregg Mitchell
Tel: 0113 224 5000
Email: gregg.mitchell@careyjones.com
Website: www.careyjones.com
Credited by many of its international fund and property company clients with having "changed the face of building and project consultancy in the UK", CNP operates from major cities across the UK and Europe with specialist departments dedicated to all aspects of surveying, project management and technical services.
Following year on year growth since 1994, the company now turns over in excess of £13m per year and was last year acquired by LandAmerica (a Fortune listed company with a $4bn annual turnover,) which is now the parent company.
Rapid growth in both the company's projects team, which is now acting on over £500m of varied projects across the UK, and in its European business, run through the office in Berlin, which is involved with transactions valued in excess of £2bn, has set CNP in a strong position in the market - a position now set to strengthen further as a result of the relationship with LandAmerica.
CNP is at the forefront of a rapidly developing industry and is set to become one of the first UK BREEAM accredited companies to provide assessments for the forthcoming compulsory Energy Performance Certificates.
Contact:
Glen Turnbull
Tel: 0113 220 7330
Email: glenturnbull@cnpltd.co.uk
Website: www.cnpltd.co.uk
Established in 1998, Dine delivers Michelin level hospitality, catering and event management to the corporate sector, weddings and private parties. Dine uniquely offers total event management from concept to completion including invitations, venues, catering, entertainments, décor and theming, and is the first company of its kind in Yorkshire to be granted membership of the International Special Events Society.
As a specialist service provider, Dine will work with you to design the perfect event, just the way you want it. Committed to delivering outstanding service to all our clients, Dine consistently perform to the highest standards of creativity, innovation and professionalism. The aim is always to exceed expectations. What's more, with exclusive contracts some of the most spectacular sites in Yorkshire, Leeds and the rest of the UK, working with Dine cannot fail to impress your guests. To find out more visit www.dine-services.com or call 0845 450 4545.
Contact:
Paul Styler
Tel: 0044 113 275 45 45
Email: paul@dine-services.com
Website: www.dine-services.com
Evans is a major private property investment and development group based in Leeds with interests throughout the UK. It has a substantial mixed use development programme including office, industrial, residential and regeneration projects, many with joint venture partners including Land Securities, Crosby Lend Lease, Cala Homes, Keyland Developments, Abstract Securities, Caddick Developments and Kodak Pension Plan.
The Group includes 'Evans Easyspace' and 'Business Living'. 'Evans Easyspace' is now the UK leader in the provision of new small office and workshop premises which are let to SME's on flexible terms. They have over 50 business centres nationwide with one new centre opening every month. 'Business Living' specialise in speculatively developing small office and hi-tech business units, built to a high quality design available either for lease or direct purchase by owner-occupiers or investors.
Evans was voted Estates Gazette Property Company of the Year for Yorkshire and the North East in 2005 and in 2006.
Contact:
David Helliwell
Tel: 0044 113 271 1888
Email: dahelliwell@evanspropertygroup.com
Website: www.evanspropertygroup.com
KW Linfoot is a design-led Leeds based property developer specializing in complex residential and mixed use city centre development throughout the North of England and beyond. With circa £1 billion of development currently under management KW Linfoot is responsible for some of the country's most exciting schemes such as the 54 storey Lumiere development in Leeds which when complete will be one of the tallest residential buildings in Europe. Further a field KW Linfoot are currently delivering 4 stunning 26 storey residential towers in Salford Quays adjacent to the new BBC Media City development which will ultimately be the new home for over 15,000 BBC staff when they relocate in 2010. Both Lumiere and the Manyoo development in Salford are being developed in conjunction with the International design company Yoo which was founded by John Hitchcox and Philippe Starck.
Contact:
Richard Dean
Tel: 0113 3916300
Email: richard.dean@kwlinfootplc.com
Website: www.kwlinfootplc.com
King Sturge is one of the largest international property consultancies in Europe, with a comprehensive network of over 100 wholly owned and associate offices throughout the world. Over 3,800 staff throughout these offices cover all property sectors and specialisms.
In Europe, King Sturge operates in the major UK commercial centres and principal mainland European cities.
In Asia Pacific, the firm has associations in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia and New Zealand. In the Americas, King Sturge has business partners in North, Central and South America.
The firm is a leading supplier of property and related services in the commercial, office, Residential and retail & leisure sectors. These services include: Agency, Arbitration, Asset management, Building consultancy, Business recovery, Capital allowances, Consultancy, Corporate real estate services, Development, Financial Services, Grant Aid, Heritage, Investment, Lease consultancy, Planning, Plant & machinery, Project management, Public Sector, Regeneration, Valuation.
Contact:
Mark Barnes
Tel: 0113 244 1441
Email: mark.barnes@kingsturge.co.uk
Website: www.kingsturge.com
Leeds City Council's city development directorate is responsible for a wide range of development, planning, regeneration, cultural and recreation activities. It exists to promote economic growth, attract investment, encourage good quality urban design and ensure that the people of Leeds are able to benefit from the success, prosperity and improved quality of life this brings to the city.
Leeds City Council has extensive land and property holdings and is working with developers to coordinate major office, retail and residential developments in city centre and out of town locations. It has also led the way in developing the Renaissance Framework to guide development activity in Leeds and ensure the city retains its distinctive sense of place.
The framework sets out a number of key urban design principles including improved connectivity, developing the city's unique skyline and reconnecting disadvantaged communities on the rim of the city to Leeds' expanding and prosperous core. It also acknowledges the importance of preserving and reinvigorating natural and historic assets such as the waterfront, the city's green spaces and its Victorian shopping arcades.
Contact:
Jean Dent
Tel: 0113 247 7828
Email: jean.dent@leeds.gov.uk
Website: www.locateinleeds.co.uk
MEPC is one of the UK's leading developers of sustainable business communities with an outstanding track record in commercial property development and management. These business communities are strategically located around the UK - six outside large towns and two located in city centres.
The company's UK assets comprise eight city centre and out of town mixed-use business parks, exceeding £1.1billion in value and representing almost 9m sq ft of workspace. They accommodate over 1000 national and international organisations.
At all assets, MEPC aims to build a community that has access to a great working environment and a wide range of amenities. Its approach to managing and developing assets places great emphasis on sustainability and responsibility for the economic, social and environmental impact of its actions. Over 20,000 people work at an MEPC site, so it focuses on making each strategic location a vibrant, pleasurable place to work.
Contact:
Rick de Blaby Chief Executive
Tel: 01235 824101
Email: rdeblaby@mepc.co.uk
Montpellier is an international property investment and development group specialising in town and city centre mixed use regeneration projects. Montpellier are long term investors, committed to shaping the future of our towns and cities. We are at the forefront of new ideas and challenge the conventional wisdom. We are passionate about the future urban environment and we deliver pragmatic solutions to the most difficult of challenges.
One of our largest projects to date is City One, located at the southern gateway to Leeds. The site extends to 10 acres and current proposals include a 2million sq ft prestigious mixed use development of up to 40 storeys.
We are dedicated to our partnerships and projects. Montpellier work collaboratively with: landowners, investors, the community and the public sector to 'unlock' value and to deliver successful regeneration projects. Whether in the commercial, voluntary or public sector, people are at the centre of all our projects. We are always seeking to create opportunities and exciting projects with new partners.
Contact:
Ben Aspinall
Tel: 01423 877 900
Email: baspinall@montpellier-estates.co.uk
Website: www.montpellier-estates.co.uk
Morgans is a specialist residential agency and consultancy. Since 1997, they have advised a wide range of private, public and institutional landowners and developers on a range of city centre, brown-field and regeneration schemes selling around 3,000 apartments along the way. Ongoing consultancy projects are centred around Leeds but also include schemes in cities across the North of England, and the agency side of the business is retained on schemes which total around 3,500 apartments which will come to the market over the next 10 years.
Contact:
Jonathan Morgan
Tel: 0113 3980099
Email: j.morgan@cityliving.co.uk
Website: www.cityliving.co.uk
Since our quantity surveying conception in 1985, Richard Boothroyd & Associates has been built on traditional values of professionalism and quality of service, but it's our fresh, resourceful outlook on the construction and property market that has been the true key to our success.
Now, with a well established team of directors, associates, chartered surveyors and technical support staff, RBA is a full service quantity surveying, cost and project management consultancy that combines leadership, expertise, versatility and innovation.
The active participation of our directors from the earliest stage ensures clients opt for the most favourable procurement choice from the outset. Involvement at director level is maintained throughout the project cycle too, from planning and strategy development, consultant and supplier selection to the construction process itself, securing project completion on time and within budget.
Contact:
Billy Paton
Tel: 07966 048690
Email: billy@rba-online.co.uk
Founded in 1998, ripe has offices in Leeds, London and Cape Town, with a team of award-winning creatives, marketers and new media specialists providing highly successful web solutions for national and multi-national organisations.
ripe generate business results through effective design, great ideas and sound project management. Our collective experience is broad and provides the platform for delivering a considered and focused service working across interactive, design and marketing disciplines. We partner with our clients from the project outset to deliver workable solutions that exceed expectations, are on time and on budget. Our creative and brand planning process is central to strategic planning and effective management, and it ensures that we employ the most effective, measurable and creative communication strategy for your brand.
With core skills in all areas of web design and development, we have created an integrated offering that gives clients total control, flexibility and accountability for their online presence. From the early stages of e-strategy and planning, through design and development and continued measurement via web analytics and metrics, we have specialist staff to help clients through every step of the project lifecycle to ensure that each web project is ultimately successful.
Contact:
Alex Murray
Tel: 0113 204 2800
Email: alex.murray@ripe.co.uk
Website: www.ripe.co.uk
An industry leader in the field of construction, Shepherd handles projects up to £100m across the public and private sectors including leisure, commercial, industrial, housing, health, education, retail and research laboratories. Operating as a national contractor, the Company's Head office is in York with Divisional centres in Leeds, Manchester and Slough.
With an established reputation for innovation and reliability, Shepherd prides itself on the completion of quality projects in time and within budget.
Shepherd employs 1000 people, including a number of skilled craftspeople and is a recognised industry leader in training and development. Shepherd was the first contractor to be awarded an Investor in People Award in 1992.
Shepherd Construction forms part of Shepherd Group, one of the largest family owned, private companies in the UK, whose turnover is in excess of £600 million.
Contact:
John Dixon
Tel: 01904 634431
Email: jdixon@shepherd-construction.co.uk
Web: www.shepherd-construction.co.uk
TCS has been a public company since 1959 specialising in property investment and development. The company has gross assets of £500m.
The company has an investment portfolio of retail property investments and owner managed car parks within major cities in northern England and Scotland. The development portfolio specialises in large scale mixed use sites close to major transport links.
TCS has three major development projects in Leeds. Through its investment in The Leeds Partnership, the company will be developing The Eastgate Quarters, a 1.1m sq ft retail led regeneration scheme anchored by John Lewis Partnership (and Marks and Spencer). Whitehall Riverside is a 500,000 sq ft office development scheme in the heart of the emerging West End and The Merrion Centre (an 800,000 sq ft retail, office and leisure investment) is undergoing a phased refurbishment and redevelopment.
Contact:
James Crawford
Tel: 0113 222 1234
Mobile: 07976 566651
Email: james.crawford@tcs-plc.co.uk
Website: www.tcs-plc.com
Land Securities and Caddick Developments present Trinity Leeds – Leeds city centre's most significant retail development to date.
By combining the former Burton Arcade site with an entirely remodelled Leeds Shopping Plaza, Trinity Leeds will provide a new, unified shopping centre in the heart of the city, with the critical mass to attract the very best names in retail.
Located on the prime pitch of Briggate and Commercial Street, Trinity Leeds is ideally positioned to benefit from Leeds' annual catchment spend of £1.6 billion (source: CACI).
Trinity Leeds will offer a range of over 100 modern retail units in a stylish and contemporary shopping environment. A number of leading brands – including M&S, Boots, H&M and TopShop - are already on board. In addition, a dramatic roof designed by internationally renowned architect Enric Miralles will not only create an iconic landmark but complete the perfect shopping experience. The scheme will be delivered in 2010.
Contact:
Lester Hampson Land Securities
Tel: 020 7747 2360
Website: www.trinityleeds.com
Established eight years ago and featured in Yorkshire's Top Public Relations Agencies of 2007 (Yorkshire Post), Waterside Communications is a PR, marketing and event management agency with a wealth of experience within the property sector.
Around 70% of the agency's client portfolio is property-based, with strategic public relations campaigns implemented for property professionals ranging from developers (both commercial and residential) through to architects, agents, surveyors and contractors.
The agency played an instrumental role in launching Location Leeds at MIPIM and has been retained for the last six years to promote and increase the presence of the city on a European stage. We handle all event management, marketing and PR associated with the event.
The directors at Waterside, with more than 50 years combined experience between them, provide a hands-on approach and are committed to providing clients with senior-level expertise as well as maintaining excellent regional, national and trade media contacts.
Contact:
Jayne Hopton
Tel: 0113 287 5910
Email: jayne.h@watersidecomms.com
Website: www.watersidecomms.com
White Young Green continues to be one of the industry's most enterprising and successful multi-national companies. The Group is a national and international consultant to the built, natural and social environment, providing a wide range of complementary engineering, environment, quantity surveying, town planning and management services to a diverse range of clients across both the public and private sectors. With a staff of over 3,000 across 30 offices worldwide, WYG is now one of the fastest growing multi-skilled professional consultancies, offering an innovative approach to development in the built environment from urban planning to energy advice. Based in Leeds, UK, the company continues to win commissions for national and international projects. These include projects in Ireland, Turkey, Syria, Georgia and the Caribbean, as well as in the UK, where it has worked on several award-winning projects for Network Rail, The Ministry of Defence, Tesco, BNFL and several major government departments.
Contact:
Sue Ansbro
Tel: 0113 219 2217
Email: sue.ansbro@wyg.com
Website: www.wyg.com
National Australia Bank is the largest overseas bank in the UK operating three brands, Clydesdale/Yorkshire Bank and nab Capital. It is a top 10 UK lender with a property book in excess of £6bn and a strategy of being the fastest growing bank in the UK. Speed of decision making is accelerated with embedded local credit for senior and mezzanine structured finance for property development and investment. The Leeds based specialist larger deal team has in depth experience of development, construction, fund management, valuation, corporate restructuring and investment banking. This blend of skills and experience is unrivalled elsewhere in Leeds.
Contact:
Sylvia Bowden
Tel: 0113 2001214
Email: sylvia.bowden@eu.nabgroup.com
Website: http://www.ybonline.co.uk
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