Landlord & Tenant Engagement

Denz joined Legal & General Investment Management Real Assets (LGIMRA) in 2019 as Head of Retail and Futuring. Graduating from the London School of Economics Cities Programme, Denz is a designer and urbanist by background with extensive experience in creating future ready places by curating environments for people to live, work and play. Prior to joining LGIMRA, Denz was Head of Special Projects at tech start up Appear Here and Head of Commercial Placemaking at BNP Paribas Real Estate. Denz is currently focussed on building an all new consumer centric Retail team at LGIMRA, with a mission on designing and delivering incredible places for people.

Joanna oversees the London estate’s retail and hospitality strategy and manages the ongoing leasing activity specifically for Mayfair. She joined Grosvenor Britain & Ireland in 2016 as Director of Retail. Prior to joining Grosvenor Joanna was at Oxford Properties, where she was responsible for the group's European Retail and Leisure Assets including The Royal Exchange and holdings on New Bond Street. Joanna also worked at The Crown Estate for five years where she was part of the St James’s London and Regional retail teams. Joanna holds an honours degree in Land Management from the University of Reading and is a qualified member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Julia joined West End specialist property company Shaftesbury in 1997 and has led the F&B strategy and portfolio for over ten years. As the largest single owner of restaurants, cafés, bars and leisure space in central London, Shaftesbury is renowned for the curation and place-making of its iconic West End villages, which include Carnaby, Seven Dials and Chinatown, plus holdings in Soho, Fitzrovia and Theatreland. With a long-term strategy of working with independent, experiential operators, the first sites of ground-breaking restaurant groups such as The Palomar, Dishoom, Flat Iron, Island Poke and Polpo are all within Shaftesbury’s portfolio. Many have taken subsequent Shaftesbury sites for new ideas and concepts as their businesses grow. Recent additions with similar potential include Sri Lankan operator, Kolamba, and Norma, former Saltyard co-founder Ben Tish’s Sicilian concept. Shaftesbury’s instinctive, holistic approach to F&B curation includes the creation of West End food hub Kingly Court, Carnaby, the refreshing of Neal’s Yard, Seven Dials, and the on-going rejuvenation of Chinatown, now increasingly known as a showcase for an array of Chinese regional cuisines and the new “Dessert Bar Alley”. Despite the impact of the pandemic, the West End restaurant market remains as energised and creative as ever, and Julia’s role is to find, place and nurture the most exciting young and growing operators in spaces and locations where they will thrive.

Anthony Lorenz is one of the best-known names in the London commercial property market and is a seasoned media commentator. He started his first consultancy, Baker Lorenz, in 1972 specialising in work such as Rent Reviews, Lease Renewals and Lease Restructuring. He has specialised over a period of 5 decades in corporate recovery during recessions. He founded Lorenz Consultancy in 2007, a boutique London commercial property consultancy, acting for some of London’s leading leisure, retail and commercial organisations.

Caleb has a deep understanding of the UK and the wider commercial real estate market. With a background in consulting to real estate businesses as they shift into the cloud, Caleb now leads the direction for Re-Leased’s CREDIA product suite, assisting businesses to extract the best from their datasets and to capitalise on emerging opportunities. CREDIA is the only commercial real estate intelligence and analytics platform that provides customers with a single source of truth to visualise and benchmark their data, enabling valuable insights and data-driven decision making. Re-Leased is a modern cloud-based, commercial property management platform which centralizes portfolio data, automates workflows, and provides live visibility for landlords, property managers, tenants, and accountants.

Tom joined Cain International in 2020 specialising in UK and European equity investment and asset management. Before joining Cain International, Tom worked for The Blackstone Group as a portfolio manager. He was responsible for the asset management of large mixed-use estates and office assets across the UK and Europe, with a primary focus on central London. Prior to that, Tom worked for Workman LLP as a senior surveyor. Tom is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in geography from The University of Exeter, specialising in human geography, as well as a post graduate diploma in surveying from the University of Reading.

Daniel Abrahams co-heads the real estate team at full service law firm Memery Crystal. A highly experienced property lawyer, Daniel specialises in all aspects of commercial property and has experience in a broad range of work including landlord and tenant, property acquisitions and disposals, development schemes, lettings and pre-lettings. Daniel has also acted in corporate and property finance transactions.