Overview
Jack Mayall is a London-based partner in Paul Hastings’ Real Estate practice.
Jack focuses on real estate, real estate finance and private equity real estate, acting for a variety of corporates, REITs and lending institutions.
He has extensive experience in a wide range of transactions across the full investment cycle of real estate assets, including direct and indirect acquisitions and disposals, real estate development, and landlord-and-tenant leasing and investment management transactions, as well as numerous financing structures advising both borrowers and lenders. His experience covers a range of asset classes, including healthcare, senior housing and assisted living, hospitality, wind, solar and energy-from-waste facilities, casinos, data centers, student accommodations, sports stadia, hotels and leisure, offices, mixed-use developments, retail portfolios and residential assets. Jack regularly advises on the real estate aspects of M&A transactions on both the buyer and seller sides.
In addition, Jack has acted for a variety of charitable and third-sector institutions on a pro bono basis on both real estate and non-real estate matters and was named in The Law Society’s Pro Bono Recognition List 2026.
Accolades
- Commercial Property: Investment, Legal 500 (2024)
Education
- BPP University Law School, L.P.C., 2012
- University of Leeds, LL.B, 2010
Representations
- A U.S. REIT on multiple acquisitions of senior living portfolios and RIDEA-compliant restructurings.
- Macquarie Asset Management on its clients’ investment in £400 million in notes related to a portfolio of commercial ground leases. In this innovative transaction, the notes are secured against a portfolio of 55 ASDA supermarket sites across the U.K.
- Northwood Investors on the sale and financing of 20 Gracechurch St., London.
- Northwood Investors on its acquisition of Five Acre Square, London.
- Fortress Investment Group on the acquisition of Punch Pubs.
- King Street on the financing of the sale and leaseback of McLaren F1’s research and development facility.
- King Street on the financing of a hotel and residential apartment complex in Mayfair, London.
- A European private equity fund on the real estate elements of several asset-backed debt and equity facilities including:
- £75 million debt facility relating to several student accommodation assets in the U.K.
- £100 million debt and equity facility backed by affordable accommodation properties.
- £80 million acquisition of a large residential development site on the west coast of Cornwall, England.
- TowerBrook Capital Partners on the acquisition of the Azzurri Group.
- KKR on the creation of a pan-European logistics development platform.
- Recharge Industries, a portfolio company of Scale Facilitation, on its acquisition of Britishvolt.
Matters may have been handled prior to joining Paul Hastings.