New Department Head Excited About Department's Future Growth

National law firm Irwin Mitchell has announced a new Head of Real Estate for its Sheffield office.

New department lead, Andrew Wallis, joined Irwin Mitchell in 2011 and specialises in development projects from site acquisition through to exit strategies, in particular joint ventures and forward funding agreements.

He has a broad experience of all types of commercial property transactions and has also driven a number of major investment portfolio acquisitions and disposals. He has particular expertise in the Student Accommodation and Build to Rent Sectors being the lead advisor on the biggest student accommodation property deal in the whole of the UK in 2016 at £417.5m.

Earlier this month, Irwin Mitchell announced that its new National Head of Real Estate, Adrian Barlow, had joined the firm. In August it also revealed that it had increased its turnover during 2016/17 by 6% compared to the previous year, taking revenue to £235m.