Graham Cutts | London | Hogan Lovells

Graham Cutts

Partner Corporate & Finance

Languages

English

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Graham Cutts
Cutts Graham
  • Overview
  • Experience
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Graham Cutts and team are a highly skilled and efficient operation providing top class advice. The team are a go to advisor on complex transactions.

Legal 500 2025

Graham is a private equity real estate lawyer specialising in: offices, life sciences and logistics and the hospitality, leisure and entertainment sector. Graham’s USPs are: his sector knowledge and commercial approach, his avoidance of legal point-scoring and his personable yet straight talking negotiation style.  

Graham has acted on many high value and complex transactions.  He's acted for: a PE client buying an iconic UK entertainment venue; an institutional JV buying into and pre-letting London's newest skyscraper (currently under construction); multiple corporates (including other law firms) on HQ relocations; public and private entities on warehouse development fundings; PE S&LB transactions; institutional investors buying and selling trophy offices and an iconic brand buying into a UK premium F&B business.

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Graham Cutts and team are a highly skilled and efficient operation providing top class advice. The team are a go to advisor on complex transactions.

Legal 500 2025

Representative experience

Acting for ICG on the acquisition of the iconic OVO (Wembley) Arena.

Acting on the holding structure, development management and pre-letting of London's newest skyscraper (currently under construction).

Acting for ICG on the S&LB of the Iron Mountain UK portfolio.

Acting for M&G Real Estate on the purchase and sale of Bankside 1, 2 and 3 on London's Southbank.

Acting for Asahi on the real estate aspects of its £250 million acquisition of the entire premium beer business of Fuller, Smith & Turner's.

Acting for The Crown Estate in connection with the entirety of its offshore wind portfolio.

Acting for ICG on the acquisition of mission critical Royal Mail distribution hub. 

Acting for ICG on the development funding of a logistics hub to be occupied by British Salt

Acting for the BBC on the sale of Television Centre.

Acting for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority on a joint venture with Goodman International for the development of an atomic research facility and life sciences campus in Harwell, Oxford.

Acting for The St James's Partnership on the pre-letting of St James's Market in London's West End.

Acting for M&G's retail fund on the purchase of Riverside House in London, HQ of OFCOM, for £120m from IVG.

Acting for several corporate, financial, law firm and media clients on their HQ relocations.

Acting for M&G Real Estate on the development-funding of three logistics distribution centres.

Acting for Eli Lilly on the sale of its UK portfolio and the pre-letting of its new UK HQ.

Credentials

Education
  • LL.B., University of Durham
  • LPC, The College of Law, London
Memberships
  • IPF

Recognition

Commercial Property

Legal 500

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