Gilbert + Tobin advised Palisade Investment Partners (“Palisade”) on its successful bid to become operator of the Sunshine Coast Airport and commercial partner in the associated development of the Airport’s new runway and related facilities.

Clyde & Co has advised Kent College LLC FZ on the sale and leaseback of the Kent College Dubai campus.

This is a landmark transaction which demonstrates the rise in acquisitions of real estate assets as a source of income generation in the UAE.

Shoosmiths has advised leading software component provider ComponentSource Limited on its move to new premises in Reading.

ComponentSource will take up a new 10 year lease from 1 January 2018 at the innovative office development, The White Building, Reading.

CMS has advised China's largest online travel agency on the lease acquisition of its new Edinburgh call centre which will create up to 200 jobs in the capital.

Scottish-based colleagues from CMS acted for Ctrip Air Ticketing UK Limited (which acquired travel search site Skyscanner in a PS1.4bn deal last December), in negotiating its lease in the newly refurbished building at 1 Lochrin Square at Fountainbridge.

Addleshaw Goddard has advised WeWork on a brace of deals which will see the global space, community, and services company lease 40,000 square feet of space in Manchester and a further 30,000 square feet in London. These new locations follow a trio of high profile deals earlier in the year by the firm on behalf of WeWork, including the world's biggest community environment of its kind.

Wellington Place confirmed as site of new Yorkshire government hub

A Real Estate team from Addleshaw Goddard has created history advising Wellington Place developer MEPC on the Government's decision to locate its new regional government hub in Yorkshire. The move represents the biggest ever office pre-let on record in Leeds.

Gide has advised Orange on signing an off-plan lease for its future headquarters at the “Bridge” complex, located in the southern Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux.

Developed by Altarea Cogedim and Crédit Agricole Assurances, and designed by architecture firm Jean-Paul Viguier et Associés, the “Bridge” project is located near the Issy bridge. The building will cover 56,000 sq.m. and will welcome the group’s 3,000 employees at its completion in the summer of 2020.

Advisors to Altarea-Codegim and Crédit Agricole as landlords in connection with the execution with Orange of a lease in a state of future completion for a firm duration of 12 years, of the “Bridge” real estate complex, developing over 56,000 sq.m, located in Issy-les-Moulineaux and which shall constitute Orange’s future headquarter.