Profile
Matthew Priday is a Co-Chair of the GT London Real Estate Practice. Matthew focuses his practice on commercial real estate and has wide-ranging experience in investments sales and purchases, lettings and development projects. Matthew advises property industry clients across the real estate, retail and financial institutions sectors.
Concentrations
- Development
- Investment
- Indirect acquisitions and disposals
- Construction law
Capabilities
Experience
- Represented Westwind Capital on both the investment vehicle set-up and acquisition and vendor financing of a circa £110 million corporate portfolio of residential assets.
- Advised Paloma Capital in connection with the corporate acquisition of two entities that were running a self-storage business across three separate self-storage sites based in Dorking, Leatherhead, and Reading.
- Represented Tristan Capital Partners on the ongoing management of the Holborn Links Estate (now rebranded as the Bloomsbury Quarter), situated in the heart of London. This includes a range of residential and commercial sales, pre-lets of multiple retail, F&B and office lettings and development work.
- Acted for a leading real estate investment management company on the development and leasing of institutional grade offices in central London.
- Advising on the acquisition of land in Bedfordshire for the subsequent development of a major leisure destination in Europe.
- Advised Goodman in relation to the development and onward sale of the £1bn GDV Eastside Locks mixed use scheme in Birmingham.
- Advised Paloma Capital in connection with Project Partridge being the sale of a £240m portfolio of industrial estates to Partners Group.
- Advised Columbus in connection with the £220m Partridge Portfolio sale of 42 industrial estates.
- Advised Goodman in connection with the £180m purchase of the Staples Corner Business Park in North London.
- Advised Schroders together with JV partner in connection with the £1bn redevelopment of 55 Bishopsgate.
- Advised the sale by Aviva Investors of the 20 acre Houghton Regis Logistics Development for £90m to Lidl.
- Advised Paloma Capital in relation to the acquisition of a 42 industrial property portfolio for c £90m
- Advised Meininger Hotels in relation to their UK property portfolio.
- Advised Oxtec in relation to the £140m sale of Oxford Technology Park and their appointment under a DFA to build out the remainder of the development.
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom, Real Estate Law, 2023-2025
- Listed, The Legal 500 United Kingdom
- Real Estate: Development, 2024
- Real Estate: Investment, 2024
- Real Estate – Commercial Property and Property Finance, 2017-2020, 2022-2023
- Team Member, PERE Global Awards, Law Firm of the Year: Fund Formation in Europe, 2018
- Team Member, Chambers USA Award for Excellence, Real Estate, 2017
- Highly Commended, Real Estate Team of the Year, Legal Business, 2014
Credentials
Education
- Nottingham Law School, 1995
- Nottingham Trent University, 1993
Admissions
- England and Wales