Profile
Patrick Williams is a shareholder in the London Real Estate Practice, advising institutional investors, private equity sponsors, fund managers, developers, and family offices in relation to corporate-structured acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, mixed-use developments, leasing, asset management, and property financings. He has extensive experience advising on investments across a range of sectors, including build-to-rent and multifamily, office, retail, hospitality, and life sciences. His practice focuses on helping clients execute sophisticated investment strategies in a competitive international market where real estate transactions increasingly intersect with broader corporate, financing, tax and fund-related issues.
Legal 500 UK 2026 recognizes Patrick in the Commercial Property: Investment ranking, where he is praised by clients as “exceptionally astute and a delight to work with” with a “user-friendly, direct approach.” Previous editions praise his “inimitable style and rare charisma whilst being a clever man of insight” and describe him as a “go-to adviser who provides clear, pithy advice with a real ability to convey complex issues in an easy-to-understand way.”
Chambers UK recognizes Patrick in the Real Estate: £150 Million and Above category, noting his “representation of private equity clients across the full remit of transactional real estate” and “expertise in multi-family mixed-use developments.” Clients call him a “superb lawyer” – “very calm under pressure, really understands what matters and interprets commercial realities” and “a subject matter expert who brings a practical and commercial approach that we rely on.”
Concentrations
- Real estate
- Corporate real estate
- Real estate investment
- Real estate development
- Private equity real estate
Capabilities
Experience
- Advising Invesco Real Estate on its £98 million forward-funding investment in partnership with High Street Residential to deliver 484 build-to-rent units in the centre of Birmingham.°
- Advising Jack Wills, an apparel and luxury goods retailer, and the administrators from KPMG on the restructuring and pre-packaged administration sale of the business and a c.160-property portfolio to Sports Direct.°
- Advising Invesco Real Estate on the property acquisition of Abbey Wood Shopping Park, Bristol, from Hermes for £53 million.°
- Advising to British Land on all new lettings, lease amendments, extensions, and terminations, as well as general management matters, at the Broadgate campus in the City of London (a 50/50 joint venture between British Land and GIC), together with providing general advice in relation to the pipeline redevelopment of Broadgate to make it a destination place when the Crossrail station opens in 2018.°
- Advising the 50/50 joint venture between British Land and Oxford Properties on completing the development and leasing of the 610,000-square-foot The Leadenhall Building (the "Cheesegrater”).°
- Advising China Investment Corporation on its acquisition of a 97% stake in Chiswick Park, a large mixed-use campus in Chiswick, London, for £780 million, and providing ongoing advice as to satisfaction of the seller's post-completion contractual obligations.°
- Advising the US public pension fund California State Teachers’ Retirement System on the potential forward funding of a 400-unit development at Barking Wharf, London, in conjunction with the residential development arm of developer Willmott Dixon.°
- Advising the Malaysian consortium-backed Battersea Power Station Development Company on its office, retail, and food and beverage letting requirements relating to Phase 1 and The Arches, Battersea Power Station, London.°
- Advising Invesco Real Estate in relation to its acquisition of a 50% interest in Southside Shopping Centre, Wandsworth, from a Delancey-managed fund and new joint venture with Land Securities based on a total asset value of £300 million.°
- Advising Lands Improvement Holdings in its role as lead developer of land at Houghton Regis to provide for up to 5,150 homes, one million square feet of distribution, and 175,000 square feet of retail and leisure uses, together with associated open space, schools, and community facilities.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Williams prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Recognition & Leadership
- Band 6, Chambers UK Guide, Real Estate: £150 Million and Above, 2026
- Listed, Legal 500 UK Guide, Commercial Property: Investment, 2026
- Member, Land Law Committee, The City of London Law Society
Credentials
- LL.B., Queensland University of Tech, Faculty of Law
- B.Comm., Queensland University of Tech, Faculty of Law
- England and Wales