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

Career

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.

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Relevant experience

Her transactions of note include advising on the Jersey aspects of:

Blackstone's €21 million recapitalisation of Mileway, a pan European logistics company.
M7's Real Estate Ltd's acquisition of a £156.9 million UK retail parks portfolio
Harbert Management Corporation's sale of two of the UK's best known industrial estates for £480 million to Blackstone;

Realty Income Corporation's acquisition of 12 properties from a JV of J. Sainsbury's and British Land for £429 million;
Blackstone Capital and Blackstone Real Estate's acquisition of Bourne Leisure, a UK based leisure and holiday company.