Jessica Burns

Jessica Burns

Associate
Baker & McKenzie

Biography

Jessica Burns is a senior associate in Baker McKenzie’s Real Estate department. Jessica joined Baker McKenzie in 2013 and qualified as a solicitor into the Real Estate group in 2015. She spent three months working in the Real Estate department of Baker McKenzie's Hong Kong office and also spent a year in the Real Estate department of the Sydney office.

Practice Focus

Jessica has broad experience on a range of property transactions in the UK. She has a particular interest in commercial landlord and tenant matters, investment sales and purchases, real estate finance and the real estate aspects of corporate transactions.

Jessica acts for a wide variety of multinational clients including property investment funds, hotel operators, financial institutions, corporate occupiers and luxury retail clients.

Representative Legal Matters

  • Acted for a hotel operator advising on the acquisition and refinancing of well-known hotel franchise portfolios across the UK.
  • Advised a Singaporean property fund on the GBP 560 million acquisition of a 79 hectare business park in south east England
  • Advised on the UK corporate real estate aspects of a multinational company's USD 225 million acquisition of a UK-based manufacturing company
  • Advised the mandated lead arranger on various land and development financings relating to the GBP 2 billion redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, London
  • Acted for Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) on its agreement to forward fund a new 2.94 million sq ft global parts logistics centre for Jaguar Land Rover at Mercia Park – one of Europe’s largest-ever single occupier build-to-suit transactions.

Admissions

  • England & Wales~United Kingdom (2015)

Languages

  • English

Previous Offices

  • Hong Kong
  • Sydney