Dermot Rice

• T  +44 (0)20 7090 5075 (Direct line)
• E  dermot.rice@slaughterandmay.com

• London 
• One Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8YY

Dermot has a broad based real estate practice encompassing all aspects of commercial real estate work, including development, investment and major landlord and tenant work. It also includes advising on any type of financing transaction involving property, particularly securitisation and structured finance, but also including the more traditional forms of property finance. He also has a wide experience in advising on the commercial real estate aspects of all types of the more general commercial transactions, e.g. the sale and purchase of both private and public companies.

Dermot is a member of our Environmental Law unit. He acted as legal adviser to the Waste Minimisation Sub-Group of the Second Advisory Committee on Business in the Environment established between the CBI and the Government. He has advised on the environmental law aspects of the acquisition, sale and flotation of a broad variety of environmentally sensitive businesses, as well as giving advice in relation to environmental compliance and liability issues generally.

His recent work includes advising:

• the Grosvenor London Office Fund on the letting of floors 4-7 Almack House, London SW1 to Warburg Pincus
• the Clothworkers Company on the establishment and ongoing activities of The Clothworker's Property Unit Trust
• Grosvenor on a number of significant regeneration projects, including The Paradise Project in Liverpool, Preston Tithebarn, and the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre in Dublin
• Abbey National on the sale by Scottish Mutual and Scottish Provident of their entire property portfolio (in excess of £1.2bn) to ING
• Grattan Property on its acquisition of 1 Park Place, Canary Wharf
• Land Securities on a number of its interests in the Thames Gateway
• Norton Rose on its headquarters move to More London
• Spirit Group on its disposal of the Premier Lodge hotel chain to Whitbread