Rosie Gibb

Rosie advises domestic and international retailers across a range of real estate matters, specialising in landlord and tenant transactions.

Her expertise spans acquisitions and disposals, surrenders and regrants, relocations, sales and leasebacks, lease regears, development agreements, the creation of stores within stores, the grant of concessions, franchise lettings, and general portfolio management and reorganisation.

With particular expertise in the franchising sector, Rosie provides strategic advice on franchise deal structuring, the property aspects of buy-backs and sales between operators, and franchise grants and renewals.

Rosie also works closely with clients’ in-house legal teams to develop bespoke real estate precedents and procedures, and provides cross-disciplinary advice real estate, planning, employment, regulatory, and corporate law. She also clients and their agents with strategic advice on the structuring of high-value, complex property deals at the negotiation stage.

Examples of Rosie’s work include:

• Advising on the structure and delivery of a complex regearing project involving multiple franchise leases.
• Managing the reorganisation of Moss and The Bodyshop’s retail portfolio following CVA.
• Acting for Aesop, Moss and Whittard of Chelsea on their respective head office relocations.
• Leading on new concept design acquisition for Cote Restaurant Group Limited.
• Leading the site acquisition programme and existing estate management programme for McDonald’s Restaurants Limited throughout the UK.