Partners

Russell Raphael Partner r.raphael@teacherstern.com Tel: +44 (0)20 7242 3191 Fax: +44 (0)20 7197 8143 Download contact details (VCF format)

Expertise:

Commercial property

In nearly twenty years as a partner in the property department Russell has been involved in a broad spectrum of commercial property deals. His work has ranged from advising UK and offshore investors and funds to developers and high street retailers. He has a track record of dealing with and finding solutions to complex title matters and in managing teams to acquire and then run multi asseted portfolios.

Russell has always maintained an interest in property tax, particularly VAT. Occasionally pure tax advice obscures property objectives and Russell's ability to provide an overview from both a property and VAT perspective has proved invaluable to clients and tax advisors.

Work for Teacher Stern includes:

• £200 million acquisition of a new City development
• Advising a JV partner re a £70m Victoria office investment
• £100m acquisition of a Central London retail investment asset
• £25m development facility to build out mixed West End scheme
• £70m Midlands distribution centre acquisition
• Pension Scheme restructure for a newspaper publisher