Helen Tapadar Hangari Email and Phone Number

- Advising major international hotel operators on all aspects of their expansion and operations in the Middle East and Africa including drafting and negotiating hotel management agreements, conducting legal due diligence, providing advice in relation to potential disputes and advising hotels on various operational issues.- Seconded twice to the legal department in the Middle East and Africa headquarters of one of the largest global hotel operators during 2011 and 2013.- Advising hotel owners on all aspects of their hotel development and in negotiations with hotel operators.- Drafting template suites of documents relating to hotel management (including management agreements, licence agreements, technical services agreements and centralised services agreements) for newly launched hotel operators established in Dubai.- Advising on all aspects of branded residences, the sale of freehold interests in hotel rooms and rental pool arrangements.- Advising numerous school operators and school developers on the development and operation of schools in the UAE.- Providing advice on large scale real estate developments including advice on legal structuring, development agreements, pre-letting and financing.- Representing major corporate occupiers in negotiating high value office leases across the Middle East and North Africa.- Build to suit experience for high profile corporate headquarters, schools, hospitals, staff accommodation and warehouses.

- Advising a pension fund on the purchase of Mill Gate Shopping Centre, Bury and the sale of Covent Garden, London.- Acting for various institutional investors in negotiating commercial leases for properties throughout England.- Acting for a German investment bank in relation to the potential purchase of an international property portfolio.- Secondments to the legal team of Canary Wharf and Sama Dubai.