Guy Winfield

Franchise

Guy leads a team advising a number of the franchisees of Anytime Fitness (one of the leading fitness club providers in the world) in the acquisition of their premises for new gym sites. Anytime Fitness now have over 100 clubs open in the UK with Freeths having been involved in over half of those club openings.

Recent Work

• Guy is the lead property partner for the Travis Perkins group (a British builders’ merchants and home improvement retailer with over 30,000 employees operating from more than 2,000 branches stores and sites across the UK. Their brands include Wickes, Toolstation and Keyline). Guy deals with the full spectrum of Real Estate work for Travis Perkins focussing primarily on their key acquisitions, disposals, and complex new development schemes.
• Advises Chancerygate, the UK’s largest multi-unit industrial property developer and asset manager, on everything from initial site acquisition to funding, disposals and ongoing asset management for a range of industrial development sites across the country.
• Guy played a major role in the redevelopment of Newark Town Centre which was a development comprising a new Asda supermarket, retail units, pharmacy, medical centre, PCT healthcare centre / offices and a new bus station. In particular he dealt with the various land acquisitions, the development documentation and set up much of the complex legal documentation for the pre-letting of the development and has subsequently acted on a number of the key lettings and forward sale of part of the completed development.
• Advised UKSE Investments/Seven Capital on the purchase of two office estates valued at £50 million. This was a large south east acquisition of high profile office estates that includes Virgin Media’s headquarters.
• Leading the Freeths team advising a number of the franchisees of Anytime Fitness on the Real Estate aspects of new gym sites across the UK. This involves working with the franchisees from start to finish and guiding them through the acquisition process. For many of them, this is their first experience of acquiring commercial premises.