Eversheds Sutherland Property Team wins Property Legal Team of the Year

The Eversheds Sutherland NI Property Team has been named 2024 Property Legal Team of the Year at the Belfast Telegraph Property Awards. The award, sponsored by Radius Housing, marked a successful 2024 for the Eversheds Sutherland Property Team, in which they were involved in over £1 billion worth of real estate transactions.

It has been a standout year for the Belfast-based property team, having been involved in a number of the largest real estate transactions that took place in Northern Ireland, including the largest standalone real estate financial transaction and one of the largest investment disposals of the year.

Highlights for the Eversheds Sutherland NI Property Team in 2023 included:

• £100 million financing of Belfast International Airport;
• Acquisition of new HQ offices in Belfast for two retail banks;
• £40 million sale of Abbey Retail Park for an Institutional Property Fund;
• £100 million+ worth of design and build development projects for Choice Housing Ireland;
• Schroders Greencoat acquisition of the largest ever UK Solar Farm Portfolio (£700 million transaction with 513.5MWP across Northern Ireland, England and Wales);
• Microsoft’s acquisition of their new European Cyber Security HQ in Belfast City Quays;
• Martin Property Group on the hotel development of the iconic Scottish Mutual Building and the magnificent Ross’s Court building beside Victoria Square;
• Lettings to Sports Direct, Hotel Chocolat and NEXT at Boucher Retail Park; and
• Advising UAE Property Fund, Saqr Capital on the acquisition of two investment properties one being home to Capita plc and the other to leading energy company Fibrus.

Led by Property Partner Gareth Planck, the Eversheds Sutherland Belfast Real Estate team began operations in 2016 and has since established itself as a market leading full service real estate advisory team that is seamlessly connected to other Eversheds Sutherland teams among the company’s global infrastructure, particularly in the UK and Dublin.

Gareth Planck, Partner, Eversheds Sutherland, said:

“Winning Property Legal Team of the Year 2024 is just reward for the exceptional work our team in Belfast has delivered for our clients over the last year and from the opening of our doors eight years ago. . We have since established a market leading full service real estate advisory team as evidenced by our tier one investment, development, and leasing transactions.

“As a local front of house legal team, we prioritise strategic internal and organic growth via our intern and trainee system. I have benefitted from this approach myself and we find this best inspires our client centric and collaborative culture. To have that approach vindicated by the Belfast Telegraph Property Awards gives us great confidence going forward. Our people are the reason we look to 2025 and beyond with great confidence and optimism.”