Industrial and Logistics

Industrial and logistics businesses must navigate shifting geopolitical dynamics, changes in customer expectations, technological advancement and the transition towards low‑carbon operations. These forces influence supply chains, land availability, infrastructure investment and planning frameworks. We help you respond decisively by providing practical advice that protects value and enables progress.

Our focus is on delivering industrial and logistics legal advice tailored to your commercial objectives. By anticipating emerging risks and opportunities, we help you take strategic decisions whether you are developing new production facilities, expanding logistics capacity or adapting existing assets for future demands. Our guidance is clear, commercially grounded and shaped by the realities of your sector.

We advise across every stage of the asset lifecycle, including planning, environmental compliance, development, construction and asset management. Our experience includes ports and multimodal transport hubs, regional distribution centres, last‑mile facilities, multi‑level industrial estates, data centres, carbon capture projects and energy storage solutions. We support you in navigating evolving planning and infrastructure regimes, securing the required consents and structuring projects to achieve long‑term resilience.

Our firm brings together one of the most respected real estate teams in the country, enhanced by commercial, regulatory and disputes specialists who work collaboratively as a single integrated offering. This multidisciplinary approach ensures you have access to the full range of expertise required to deliver complex industrial and logistics projects in domestic and international markets.

Featured experience

• Acting on the pre-let of a 137,000sq ft warehouse, including site set-up, a conditional agreement for leases documentation and the procurement of construction warranties.
• Advising on all planning and infrastructure aspects of a new hyper-scaler data centre (60,000 sqm) in Hertfordshire, including negotiation of mitigating infrastructure package and associated Section 106 obligations and conditions.
• Acting for a national retailer in relation to a development agreement for the construction of a 670,000 sq ft national distribution centre and the grant of a 20 year lease.
• Acting for a pension fund on the purchase, manufacture and sale of a distribution centre in the Midlands and on the purchase and forward funding of a six unit industrial scheme.
• Acting for a transport company on the development of the storage and servicing facility including supporting power purchase agreements linked to the landlord's adjacent solar scheme.