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UK Life Sciences Summer Cocktail Schmooze

Name: UK Life Sciences Summer Cocktail Schmooze
Start: 2023-06-29T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2023-06-29T18:30:00+01:00
Location: Paper Yard

Join Influential Real Estate Investors, Owners, Developers, Occupiers & More for a Fantastic Networking Event

Event Ended On: Thursday June 29 2023

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Headline Presenting Partner

Harrison Street is one of the leading investment management firms exclusively focused on alternative real assets. Since inception in 2005, the firm has created a series of differentiated investment solutions focused on demographic-driven, needs-based assets. The firm has invested across senior housing, student housing, healthcare delivery, life sciences and storage real estate as well as social and utility infrastructure. Headquartered in Chicago with offices in London, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington DC, the firm has more than 200-employees and approximately $44 billion in assets under management. Clients of the firm include a global institutional investor base domiciled in North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Latin America. Harrison Street was awarded Best Places to Work by Pensions & Investments for seven consecutive years (2014-2020) and was recognized by PERE as the 2021 Alternatives Investor of the Year, North America and 2020 Global Alternatives Investor of the Year. For more information, please visit www.harrisonst.com.

Event Host

Paper Yard

Paper Yard at Canada Water is a brand new innovation hub for central London, offering 33,000 sq ft of fitted and lab-enabled space. The innovative modular buildings are highly versatile, offering both lab and write-up space across a range of suite sizes with the opportunity for shared lab amenities, and capable of accommodating CL2. The summer schmooze will be the industry’s first opportunity to explore this brand new space, which will have completed just days before the event.

Speakers and Panels

Welcome From Harrison Street

An Introduction To Bisnow's Life Sciences Event

Paul Bashir

Managing Director & CEO Europe, Harrison Street

Life Science Deal Making: Capitalising On A Booming Industry

Explore How To Get Deals Across The Line By Understanding The Yields, Financing And Acquisition

Kelly Cleveland

Head of Investment, British Land

Laura Mason

CEO, Legal & General Capital

Moderator

Josh Miller

Managing Director, Head of Transactions - Europe, Harrison Street

Toby Reid

Executive Director, Pioneer Group

Building & Designing Spaces To Accommodate Tenant Growth Across All Lab Types

Understand Tenants Ever-Evolving Demands To Maximise The Site In Question

Michael Chen

CEO and Co-Founder, Nuclera

Thomas Renn

VP, Acquisitions and Development, Breakthrough Properties

Monika Zemla

Specialising in Business Development and Leasing, focussed on leasing, asset management, cluster engagement and the expansion of the Advanced Research Clusters Platform across Europe. As one of the first employees of the former Harwell Campus Management team (working for Public: Private Sector Joint Venture), Monika has played a significant role in growing and shaping the business. An early achievement saw her establishing and managing the complex process of land acquisition into the Partnership from the Public Sector freeholder. Monika became specialised in the due diligence process as well as taking a role of advising the bank on development potential and valuations of existing and newly completed assets throughout the expansion of the campus up to the most recently raised senior debt of £110million. In 2020, alongside the Harwell Oxford Partners and Eastdil, Monika overseen the sale of 50% private stake of the Harwell’s Joint Venture and the Harwell Oxford Management Company (now known by Advanced Research Cluster Management) to Brookfield Asset Management which included Business Plan creation, investors engagement, legals and full suite of due diligence. Monika’s roles involves leading negotiations on numerous commercial lettings of multi- and single-let schemes, with over 170k sf completed leasing throughout 2021 only, advise on the strategic land management and development of further 1.5 million sq ft of commercial spaces with particular focus on laboratories, offices and advanced manufacturing, as part of the wider Campus Team, promoting and growing Business Clusters on Campus: Space, EnergyTech, HealthTech, and Quantum, working with Head of Acquisitions to identity international opportunities to expand Advanced Research Clusters outreach and network for the benefit of its members. Monika is a Member of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, having qualified in Planning and Development and graduated from Oxford Brookes University where she was awarded the accolade of Best Academic Performance for her BA. She was also recognised by the Futures Award of the Year (Young Person under 35) – Winner, Issued by UK Property Forums in September 2020. Before joining Harwell Team in 2014, Monika worked in Local Planning Authorities in West Oxfordshire, Witney and Chipping Norton.

Harwell Science and Innovation Campus

Director - Leasing and Business Development

Monika Zemla

Director - Leasing and Business Development, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus

Moderator

Rob Burborough

Partner, 3PM

WHY THIS MATTERS?

What You’ll Learn:

How have yields have been impacted by rising interest rates and where value can be found.
Where financing is coming from in today's environment and how the most active players are rounding out their capital stacks.
The key location trends and how to navigate planning, land restrictions and ESG requirements.
Meeting the right degree of flexibility to design an adaptable space vs. build-to-suit to meet tenants demands.
How drug discovery and vaccine development impacts life sciences real estate innovation and space requirements across all lab types.

How You’ll Do More Business: Investors are paying top dollar for lab space in the UK, and developers are moving quickly to bring more lab space to the market. Join us to hear about the booming life science real estate market, the investment and development opportunities, and how owners are adjusting to meet the demand.

Who You'll Network With: Owners, Developers, Investors, Architects, Construction, Designers, Brokers, Leasing Agents, Lawyers, Financial Institutions, Government Officials - Biotech Executives, BioMed Executives, Pharmaceutical Executives, Life Science Real Estate Professionals.

Why You Should Attend: Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to identify opportunities, build your network and expand your business. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, no one knows how to help your business more than us.

For questions, recommendations, comments, or press inquiries please email us at london@bisnow.com.

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Venue

Paper Yard
Quebec Way
Canada Water

NB: Guests will enter via the Printworks entrance on Surrey Quays Road, SE16 7PJ. The route will be stewarded from Canada Water tube station – look for the Bisnow sign within the station and follow the stewards’ directions.

Parking Information:

Parking is available at Surrey Quays Leisure Park, 3 Teredo St, London SE16 7LW. Please send your vehicle number plate details to canadawaterevents@britishland.com with the reference ‘Bisnow’ to avoid any overstay penalties.

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Agenda

Time	Activity
3:00 PM 3:45 PM	Welcome, Registration And Networking
3:45 PM 3:55 PM	Welcome From Bisnow And Harrison Street
3:55 PM 4:25 PM	Life Science Deal Making: Capitalising On A Booming Industry 1. How are deals being financed in the current economic environment? How are yield being impacted? 2. How much is the sustainability agenda affecting investment decisions? 3. What is the current availability of land for life science sites? How does one overcome the challenges of acquiring land?
4:30 PM 5:00 PM	Building & Designing Spaces To Accommodate Tenant Growth Across All Lab Types 1. How does one accommodate for a growing number of tenants and their ever evolving demands? How have space requirements for life sciences companies changed? 2. How does speculative development differ from build-to-suit from a design, building, and engineering perspective? 3. What are some design elements that are being demanded by life sciences tenants?
5:00 PM 6:30 PM	Drinks, Amazing Food And Networking!