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DAC have detailed knowledge, ability and clearly have the experience to handle complex matters.
Chambers & Partners UK 2026, Real Estate: £50-150 million
Industrial and Logistics
We understand that you need to respond rapidly to opportunities and new dynamics in the sector: shifts in global politics, in customer behaviour, evolving regulations towards carbon neutrality and innovations around energy and data storage and supply. Responses require changes to supply chain logistics, use of technology and the flexibility for land to come forward for warehouses, data centres, carbon capture facilities and energy storage solutions.
Overview
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
Pre-let
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.
Data centre planning and Section 106
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.
FAQs
We advise on the full spectrum of industrial and logistics schemes, including warehouses, distribution hubs, manufacturing facilities, multi‑level industrial estates, data centres, carbon capture projects and energy storage solutions.
We guide clients through planning strategy, environmental compliance, impact assessments and evolving regulatory frameworks. Our team helps secure the consents and approvals needed to bring forward development efficiently and with reduced risk.
Yes. We work with clients from the earliest stage of project development, advising on land promotion, acquisition, due diligence and the structures required to bring land forward for industrial or logistics use.
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We provide real estate commercial investment and asset management legal services that support complex investment strategies across a wide range of assets. Our work focuses on practical, commercially aligned advice that helps you manage risk, maintain strong tenant relationships, and achieve efficient transaction management and execution across your portfolio.
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Construction and Engineering
We work closely with clients as part of their wider teams to help them deliver projects across the construction, engineering and infrastructure sectors. We work collaboratively and provide clients with practical legal and commercial advice to allocate and manage risk and manage operational challenges to allow the successful delivery projects.
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Portfolio Management
We help owners, operators, and investors manage their real estate portfolios efficiently and with confidence. By combining specialist expertise, technology‑driven processes, and a deep understanding of high‑volume transactional work, we deliver solutions that reduce cost, streamline delivery, and support your commercial objectives.
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Planning and Environment
We provide specialist planning and environmental services across the complete range of contentious and non-contentious planning advice.
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Property Litigation
Our property litigation lawyers advise clients across the real estate sector, helping you manage risk, resolve disputes, and protect the value of your assets. We combine deep technical expertise with commercial insight to support organisations facing complex, high‑value or time‑critical property litigation issues in the UK and internationally.
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Who we are
Why choose DAC Beachcroft?
We’re a broad-based commercial firm serving a wide range of sectors with a strong heritage in insurance,
health and real estate. We combine excellent legal skills and cutting-edge delivery expertise to design
solutions that fit the needs of our clients – often involving clever uses of technology.
Living
We offer comprehensive legal services for investors, developers, and managers of build-to-rent accommodation.
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Health
We provide a complete real estate service across the health and social care sector, for both public health bodies, NHS Foundation Trusts and private providers as well as to developers, investors and funders – both national and international.
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Industrial and Logistics
We provide a complete real estate service to developers, investors and occupiers on planning/environmental, development, construction and asset management matters and associated commercial agreements.
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Offices
We provide a complete real estate service to developers, investors and occupiers on planning, investment, development, construction and asset management matters.
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Housebuilders
We provide a complete real estate service to leading national housebuilders, specialist developers and housing associations.
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Retail Destinations
Many retail destinations are expected to trade and we are well placed to advise on the buyer or seller side. Retail destinations have been evolving fast, with mixed-use development, repurposed assets and new leasing models reshaping expectations. We help you respond to this change with clear, commercially focused advice that supports your strategy, enhances asset performance, and ensures compliance with emerging standards, including net zero requirements.
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Telecommunications
We support clients across the telecommunications ecosystem, advising on the full range of real estate‑related issues that arise in a complex and heavily regulated market from mobile infrastructure, wayleaves, fibre and data centres – we are across the whole of the connectivity sector.
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