• Built Environment

• Energy infrastructure and Renewables
• Commercial Property
• Hotel and Leisure
• Landlord and Tenant
• Healthcare, Nursing Homes and Primary Care Centres
• Student accommodation

Vanessa acts for:

• Landlords
• Tenants
• Financial institutions

Education

Queen's University Belfast (LLB)

Professional Memberships

Law Society of Ireland

• Acting for Finglas Regen Limited on its acquisition of two sites in the greater Finglas Development Plan area, formerly comprising factory and warehouse facilities and ancillary lands. Vanessa advised the client on all aspects of the acquisition and funding thereof which included complex issues pertaining to the rezoning of the site. Vanessa also advised the client on the plans to develop the sites as strategic residential developments comprising in excess of 500 residential units to include Put and Call Options, forward fund structures and joint ventures with neighbouring landowners.

• Advised AXA Investment Managers on the acquisition and leasing, by way of sale and leaseback, of a portfolio of 6 nursing homes under development and operated by Mowlam Group, including the negotiation of lease backs to the vendor/operator entity on completion.

• Advised SSE on the acquisition of 8 Bord Na Móna (BNM) sites across the country for the planned development of 8 wind renewable projects. The Project is known as Project 30 and is a joint venture between SSE and BNM seeing the creation of eight special purpose vehicles (SPVs), each tasked with the development of a standalone project on eight separate peat boglands comprising 1000s of acres of land.

• Advised Pioneer Point and Davidson Kempner on the terms of a €1bn investment into Irish data centre company Echelon, to support Echelon’s 184MW IT load across two data centre locations.

• Advising a consortium of investors, including Aberdeen Standard Investments, M&G Investments and Canada Life, on a private placement investment in a portfolio of 15 primary care centres (PCC) owned by PHP Euro Private Placement which involved a comprehensive due diligence exercise on the real estate assets of 15 PCCs which are let to the HSE, Tusla and related PCC users.

• Advised emeis Ireland (formerly Orpea S.A.), the leading international nursing homes operator and largest operator in the Irish market, on its acquisition of the FirstCare Group. At the time of acquisition, the FirstCare Group comprised 552 beds with 6 nursing homes located in Dublin, Wicklow and Kildare.

• Acted for DomusVi Group on the acquisition of the Trinity Care Group which comprises 8 purpose-built nursing homes in Meath, Kildare, North Dublin, Louth, South Dublin, Cavan.

• Advising SCPI Pierval Santé, a French property fund dedicated to healthcare real estate assets, on the acquisition of over €128 million of nursing home assets throughout Ireland.

• Advised a Student Housing developer and operator on the acquisition, development and sale of two newly constructed and operational student housing developments in Dublin 7 and Dublin 8.