KPMG Law continues to respond to a growing demand for its services in the real estate sector by bolstering its successful team with a raft of key hires.
The real estate legal capability at the professional services business is now 15 strong operating out of KPMG’s offices in London and Manchester with key senior lawyers having joined including Real Estate Partners, Rob O’Hanrahan and Paul Dineen, Construction Partner, Peter Lowe as well as Finance lawyer, Isabel Tinsley.
Since 2024 the team has closed around £3 billion of transactions across a range of sectors including industrial and logistics, student, offices and retail for private equity, sovereign wealth fund and listed pension fund clients.
During 2026 KPMG Law aims to continue to expand the team with additional hires providing full service real estate legal capability which, alongside KPMG’s wider real estate tax, accounting and advisory colleagues, will provide a unique one-stop shop multidisciplinary service to KPMG clients investing in, developing and/or operating real estate.
2026 will also see the team continue to work closely with KPMG’s Global Legal and Technology team to develop more efficient ways to deliver their legal services via ongoing investment in technology including Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Stuart Bedford, Global Head of KPMG Legal Services, said:
“The arrival of such a strong and market known team (which we have ambitious plans to continue to build) led by Partners of the calibre of Rob, Paul and Pete has given us important market credible capability in the London/the UK which remains an important gateway for real estate into Europe and bolsters our circa 370 lawyer strong global real estate legal services team. As well as our proven ability to offer multi-disciplinary solutions to real estate clients, the significant KPMG investment in technology (particularly AI) is allowing the team to offer legal services to global real estate clients managing large portfolios in a more efficient way thereby delivering certainty and value as well as providing clients with AI tools they can use to navigate data held within legal documentation produced.”
Andy Pyle, Global and UK Head of Real Estate, said:
“We are really pleased with how our KPMG Law real estate team continues to go from strength to strength after successfully growing its team and delivering great results for our clients. The work that the team does is a great example of how our multi-disciplinary model here at KPMG provides an amazing array of services to all we support. We are excited to see the team further grow in 2026, especially with the new exciting advances the likes of AI can provide to assist current and new clients.”
