Event Information

Joining Ros Rowe in this webinar are John Forbes, consultant, Mark Robinson, Chair of the High Street Task Force and Tim Rayner, Joint National Head of Retail Disputes at Irwin Mitchell. Our speakers will share their views on the wider impact of the demise of many high streets on landlords, investors and lender. Reduced economic activity has led to cashflow difficulties for individuals and businesses which will result in many tenants unable or unwilling to pay rents. The consequences for landlords, investors and lenders will be explored as follows:
• An update on the second half on 2020 and what this has meant for rent receipts.
• What this might mean in terms of accounting, distributions etc.
• What would incoming investors want?
• What actions landlords are taking when rents are not paid
• How landlords respond to tenant with company voluntary arrangements.
• Looking forward to the longer-term new normal and what a new high street will look like

Key benefits

• Understand what the rental deficit means for landlords, their lenders and investors.

• Hear experts from different stakeholders; the fund manager, activist and legal adviser.

• Gain insights on what a new vision for the high street could look like and what this could mean for the landlord.

About the speaker(s)

Rosalind Rowe BSc (Hons) FCA CTA Hon(RICS), Consultant
Ros is a subject expert for this community and a non-exec director of a housing association. Formerly a tax partner at PwC, she has advised construction companies on complex projects including regeneration (King’s Cross and London’s Docklands); PPP/PFI joint ventures for student accommodation and mixed-use developments. As an adviser to many Real Estate Investment Trusts, she worked closely with the government to increase the supply of housing for rent together with initiating a framework of tax incentives to regenerate brownfield sites.

John Forbes - John Forbes Consulting LLP
John Forbes is an independent consultant advising real estate investment managers, investors and others in the real estate industry on the structure and operation of real estate funds. Previously a Partner and Leader of the European Real Estate Industry Practice at PwC, he is now Chairman of the Independent Supervisory Board of the UBS Triton Property Fund, Independent Chair of the Urban Splash Residential Fund and a Non-executive Chairman of Ginkgo Advisor UK Limited.

John is a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Tax Adviser, and Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He is a member of many industry bodies including Vice-Chair of the UK Executive Committee of the Urban Land Institute. A regular conference speaker, he has also authored papers including “Ammonites, extinction events and the real estate fund management industry” and “Unlisted funds - lessons from the crisis”.

Costs

ICAEW members and non-members are welcome to join. To attend the webinar, you must join the community. Please click here to join online.