Naomi Milne
Director
Naomi Milne is a director in the Real Estate team, based in Leeds. Naomi has been with the firm since she joined as a trainee and provides general commercial property advice to individuals, companies and lenders and regularly acts for both public and private sector clients. In particular, Naomi has experience in advising clients on acquisition and development projects and a wide range of landlord and tenant matters (advising both residential and commercial developers on a spectrum of property issues). Naomi has further bespoke in-house experience, having completed secondments with Lloyds Banking Group and Selfridges Retail Group, both of which gave her an excellent insight into the day-to-day challenges facing our clients’ in-house teams.
Naomi assumes a lead role in day-to-day portfolio management for a number of clients, acting for property investors and for clients in the retail and aggregates spheres (as well as other corporate occupiers) and is well-versed in the sorts of challenges presented to clients managing a larger portfolio. Naomi’s experience is a blend of more complex development projects alongside property portfolio management.
Development and Regeneration
- Advising Capital & Centric on the acquisition and residential development of a 19th century cutlery works in Sheffield (build to rent scheme), as well as a residential-led regeneration development scheme in central Stoke-on-Trent.
- Acting on behalf of Citu Group in connection with the acquisition, financing and development of a 1,000 home residential regeneration scheme in Sheffield.
- Advising Cheyne Capital’s Social Impact Fund in respect of the acquisition and development of affordable and below-market rental accommodation developments.
- Advising Man Group in connection with the acquisition and development of several residential investment schemes (affordable and build to rent) in varying UK locations.
- Advising Park Leisure, a lodge park operator, on various lodge park acquisitions and expansions throughout England.
- Advising on various other forward-funded development schemes in the social care and hotel spheres.
Portfolio Management
- Leading on estate management for an investor client in relation to its London Oxford Street mixed-use portfolio.
- Taking senior lead involvement in the AG Retail (Clintons) portfolio transaction management, and advising on real estate aspects following the client’s recent administration.
- Advising a luxury global wedding gown designer on its new Bond Street flagship and other UK assets.
- Advising on numerous acquisitions, disposals and lettings (as part of a wider portfolio strategy) of sites across England for a leading UK aggregates PLC.
- Advising on warehouse acquisitions in the distribution sector for pharma and healthcare clients.
Education
- BPP Law School, L.P.C., 2013
- Durham University, LL.B., 2011
Admissions
- England and Wales, 2015