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Life Sciences Group

Making the correct real estate decisions means being in the right location, at the right cost and at the right time for your staff, your clients and your business.

Our Life Sciences Group shares  best practice, research and knowledge from the real estate industry to assist in all aspects of a life science company’s real estate needs.

Our network of local agents, experience and knowledge can help you to align your property requirements with your business objectives and help to keep you ahead of your competition.


Who should use our services?

Companies in the life science sector, including in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, biomedical technologies, life systems technologies, nutraceuticals, environmental and biomedical devices.

We work with commercial tenants, landlords and owner occupiers with properties or portfolios of any size, including offices, industrial, research & development and science parks, particularly those who may be considering:

  • acquisitions or construction of facilities – where the company is entering new markets
  • consolidations – through merger and acquisition activity, where there is usually duplicate property stock
  • disposal of surplus portfolio – following new acquisitions, mergers and acquisitions and consolidations
  • raising capital – by leveraging real estate assets.

How we can help

Consulting

From real estate due diligence for M&A activity to location analysis and full portfolio optimisation programmes, all aimed at helping you deliver specific business objectives and reduce risk.

Corporate strategy

Helping you optimise the value of your property portfolio and how it impacts on your firm’s balance sheet.

Global lease administration

Giving you the business intelligence you need to implement your corporate property strategy and taking the risk out of managing your corporate portfolio.

Programme and project management

Helping you deliver real estate projects on time, to budget and to specification.

Facilities management

Delivering the quality of service and budget that you are looking for.

Transaction management

Taking on the ‘intelligent client’ role in managing transactions on an outsourced basis.


Adding value - the benefits of our approach

High service standards

Our highly qualified and experienced professionals pay close attention to detail and offer the best standards in client care.

Understanding your business

Our research, knowledge and experience in the life science industry and real estate markets means we can help you be in the right locations, at the right time for the right cost for your company.

Lower costs

We can help you reduce real estate costs and, where appropriate, raise capital.

Simple yet effective systems

We have developed market-leading, simple and effective processes and systems. These enable us to collaborate with you, on a global basis if required, to meet your needs in a cost effective, efficient and professional way.

Peer interaction

You will have access to your life science real estate peers through briefings, forums and discussion groups.


Experience and resources

We have a broad range of clients in the life sciences industry, including GlaxoSmithKline, TEVA Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi-Aventis, Abbott Laboratories and Astra-Zeneca. These clients and many others are serviced on a country–by-country, regional and global basis by our network of 15,000 professionals including researchers, strategists, business modellers, accountants, financial consultants and agents in 220 offices across 59 countries.

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