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Industry · Ex. 05

Property disputes are balance-sheet events long before they're legal ones.

Real estate disputes — from contested developments to distressed portfolios — carry financing and valuation consequences that shape the strategy from day one.

2 practices regularly engagedInstitutional landlords & fundsLed by Priya Anand
Why This Industry

A property dispute is rarely just about the property.

Behind most significant real estate disputes sits a financing arrangement, a fund's valuation cycle, or a covenant that a lender is watching closely. Advice that ignores that context tends to win the legal point and lose the client's actual objective.

We advise institutional landlords, developers and funds with the balance sheet consequences in view alongside the legal ones — particularly where a counterparty's financial distress is part of the picture.

— Priya Anand, Partner

Where We Help

The disputes clients bring us.

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Contested Developments

Disputes arising from development agreements, construction delay and contractor insolvency.

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Distressed Portfolios

Advising lenders and landlords where a tenant or borrower's financial distress puts a real estate asset at risk.

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Institutional Landlord Disputes

Lease and covenant disputes for institutional landlords and property funds.

Representative Matters

The Mandate Journey™

The firm's real estate sector work is ongoing and, in several cases, confidential to the parties involved. Representative detail is available on request from the contact below.

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Priya Anand

Partner, Insolvency & Restructuring
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