Leslie Wolfson Solicitors

We represented Town Centre Securities plc in the acquisition of a large retail investment in Milngavie, Glasgow at a price in excess of £10million.

On behalf of Dunfermline Building Society, we acted in the £15million finance of Enterprise Zone forward finance at Foxcover, County Durham.

We represented London-based investors in connection with the purchase of a development site in Edinburgh for £4 million. The legal process was concluded within a 24 hour period.

On behalf of News International, publishers of the Times, the Sun and the News of the World, we acquired a development site at Eurocentral, Lanarkshire.

We represented News International in connection with letting their office space at The Guildhall, 57 Queen Street, Glasgow at a total rent of £368,240 per annum. The legal process was concluded within 10 days.

At a price in excess of £40million - the largest Edinburgh investment deal of the year at the time - we acted for a Manchester-based private property company in its acquisition of a newly-constructed office building at South Gyle, Edinburgh, let mainly to a government tenant.

We acted for a leading Glasgow-based private Scottish property company in a number of sales, including the sale of combined interests in the Kyle Centre and Arran Mall, Ayr in a deal valued at £37million.

We handled an inter-group re-organisation for offshore clients with associated refinancing and a subsequent further securitisation-based refinancing, involving a portfolio of UK office buildings worth in excess of £200million including four office developments in Edinburgh and Aberdeen valued alone at more than £130million.

We acted in the forward- funded purchase (through a corporate acquisition) of a new office building in Tranent for offshore clients for approx. £5million.

We acquired a car park site in Linwood, Paisley for Q-Park, also via a corporate acquisition, for in excess of £5million.

On behalf of a London-based plc pension scheme we acquired a prime investment property in Perth for £4.6million.

We represent Aldi Stores in Scotland and are currently assisting them in a vigorous expansion programme of their Scottish operation following the completion of their new Scottish distribution centre at Bathgate, on which we also advised.

We acted in the sale of an Edinburgh mixed retail and office investment at a price just under £17million.

On behalf of the Fordgate Group we acted in the sale of the Paisley Centre, Paisley to a Jersey property unit trust in a deal valued at over £48million.

We acted for private English investors in the sale of a multi-let office building in Aberdeen for £10,264,000