Patrick Williams

Patrick Williams offers our clients significant and varied transactional experience acting on complex real estate-driven investment.

Institutional investors, private equity investors, fund managers, developers, and family offices seek Patrick’s pragmatic representation in corporate structured acquisitions and disposals, property joint ventures, mixed-use developments, leasing arrangements, asset management, and property finance. In recent years, Patrick has gained particular expertise in mixed-use multifamily development.

Legal 500 UK recognizes Patrick in the Commercial Property: Investment category where he is praised by a client for exhibiting “inimitable style and rare charisma whilst being a clever man of insight.” Another client describes Patrick as a “go-to adviser who provides clear, pithy advice with a real ability to convey complex issues in an easy-to-understand way.” Clients further note that Patrick is “incredibly responsive and accommodating,” and has “a genuine ability to think outside of the box and provide innovative solutions to funding and development issues.”

Prior to joining Fried Frank, Patrick was a partner at a large international law firm.

Representative matters include:

• Counsel to Invesco Real Estate on its £98 million forward-funding investment in partnership with High Street Residential to deliver 484 build-to-rent units in the centre of Birmingham
• Counsel to Jack Wills, an apparel and luxury goods retailer, and the administrators from KPMG on the restructuring and pre-packaged administration sale of the business and a c.160-property portfolio to Sports Direct
• Counsel to Invesco Real Estate on the property acquisition of Abbey Wood Shopping Park, Bristol, from Hermes for £53 million
• Counsel to British Land on all new lettings, lease amendments, extensions, and terminations, as well as general management matters, at the Broadgate campus in the City of London (a 50/50 joint venture between British Land and GIC), together with providing general advice in relation to the pipeline redevelopment of Broadgate to make it a destination place when the Crossrail station opens in 2018
• Counsel to the 50/50 joint venture between British Land and Oxford Properties on completing the development and leasing of the 610,000-square-foot The Leadenhall Building (the "Cheesegrater”)
• Counsel to China Investment Corporation on its acquisition from Blackstone of a 97% stake in Chiswick Park, a large mixed-use campus in Chiswick, London, for £780 million, and providing ongoing advice as to satisfaction of the seller's post-completion contractual obligations
• Counsel to the US public pension fund California State Teachers' Retirement System on the potential forward funding of a 400-unit development at Barking Wharf, London, in conjunction with the residential development arm of developer Willmott Dixon
• Counsel to the Malaysian consortium-backed Battersea Power Station Development Company on its office, retail, and food and beverage letting requirements relating to Phase 1 and The Arches, Battersea Power Station, London
• Counsel to Invesco Real Estate in relation to its acquisition of a 50% interest in Southside Shopping Centre, Wandsworth, from a Delancey-managed fund and new joint venture with Land Securities based on a total asset value of £300 million
• Counsel to Lands Improvement Holdings in its role as lead developer of land at Houghton Regis to provide for up to 5,150 homes, one million square feet of distribution, and 175,000 square feet of retail and leisure uses, together with associated open space, schools, and community facilities