Conrad Davies
Partner, Head of Urban Dynamics, UK
Conrad is a Partner in the corporate practice and head of our Urban Dynamics group - which focusses on the transformation taking place in our global cities and the impact this has on our clients and their businesses, including the Future of Living, the Future of Work, Urban Mobility and Smart Cities.
His work includes acting on private equity fundraisings, private acquisitions and disposals, restructurings and complex joint ventures and partnership arrangements. He has a particular focus on advising on transactions involving real estate and infrastructure assets and portfolios. He also has significant experience of work in the technology sector.
Before qualifying as a lawyer in 2002, Conrad spent five years working in business. He joined Osborne Clarke in 2004 from the London office of US law firm Jones Day and has been a Partner since 2011. He spent a number of years as International head of Osborne Clarke's Real Estate sector and is a regular speaker on matters involving corporate law, technology and real estate.
Work
Moorfield
Advised Moorfield Group on the disposal of The Printworks to BlackRock UK Property Fund for £40m.
Doughty Hanson and Invesco
Advised Doughty Hanson and Invesco Real Estate on the sale of the award-winning Howick Place Development in London.
Student Castle
Advised Student Castle on the disposal of a £330m student accommodation portfolio to CPPIB Liberty Living.
Progressive Digital Media plc
Advised Progressive on its acquisition of the Datamonitor Financial, Datamonitor Consumer, MarketLine and Verdict businesses from Informa plc for £25m.
Galliford Try plc
Advised Galliford Try on the disposal of a £25m shared equity mortgage portfolio to Patron Capital.
Brookfield Logistics
Advised IDI Gazeley (Brookfield Logistics) on its acquisition of a 90% interest in an existing joint venture with CalPERS.
Pramerica
Advised Pramerica Real Estate Investors on a series of acquisitions of UK ground rent portfolios.
City Car Club
Advised shareholders and management on the sale of City Car Club to Enterprise Rent-A-Car Inc.
Insights
Smart cities
Our smart cities experts work alongside our clients from across the finance, technology, infrastructure, energy, transport, healthcare and public sectors...
13/04/2021
Real Estate and Infrastructure
As Liz Hamson, editor of Property Week and chair of our recent client roundtable, pointed out, data might be "the...
18/03/2021
Urban Dynamics
Plus X is aiming to build a national network of specialist innovation hubs which bring together like-minded people in a...
01/02/2021
Read time
4m
Urban Dynamics
We are pleased to have partnered with Nuveen Real Estate to pool our collective thinking about how data is powering...
24/11/2020
Urban Dynamics
First, it’s good to understand that, prior to Covid-19, various sources predicted that two-thirds of the world's population will live...
16/11/2020
Read time
2m
Real estate
The first insight in this series looked at the structure of and economic aspects of JVs; this article focuses on...
19/10/2020
Real estate
Joint ventures (JVs) in real estate have long been an attractive proposition due to the ability to combine assets and...
16/10/2020
Real estate
Warranty and indemnity (W&I) insurance policies – which provide cover for losses from breaches of these terms under sale agreements...
16/10/2020
Real Estate and Infrastructure
Conrad Davies and Jonathan Mills joined Louisa Dickens of LMRE for the final episode of season 2 of the PropCast...
13/10/2020
IT and data
In a series of webinars, chaired by Mark Taylor, we explored some of the most pressing legal issues surrounding the...
28/05/2020
Real Estate and Infrastructure
Osborne Clarke's International Real Estate and Infrastructure Sector Lead Conrad Davies and Head of Alternative Residential Nadine Strahl discuss the...
21/11/2019
