International law firm Addleshaw Goddard (AG) has appointed Amit Unadkat as a Partner in its London Real Estate team, joining from CMS.

Amit brings extensive experience advising private equity firms and global investors on complex UK and cross border European real estate transactions. He also works closely with operating partners, specialist managers and platforms on their investment and development transactions across all of the major asset classes. He regularly leads on acquisitions, net lease/sale and leaseback transactions, joint ventures, financings and other forms of structured real estate investment. He is recognised as a “Next Generation Partner” by The Legal 500 2025.

This appointment strengthens AG’s strategic growth across its real estate and private equity platforms and underlines the firm’s ambition to be a market leading, full service City real estate practice. Recent highlights include advising British Land on its £240m acquisition of a portfolio of six retail parks from vendors including Brookfield and M7, and advising LondonMetric on the real estate aspects of its £699m acquisition of Urban Logistics REIT.

AG continues its strong growth trajectory following the launch of its AG2030 strategy in November 2024, which sets out an ambition to become a £1 billion firm by the end of the decade. In recent months, the firm has opened its 21st office in Abu Dhabi and expanded into Central Europe through the addition of Linklaters’ Warsaw operations. AG also reported record financial results for the year ending 30 April 2025, with revenue up 11% to £550.9 million. Amit is the firm’s 16th lateral partner hire in the UK this year.

Amit Unadkat, Real Estate Partner at Addleshaw Goddard, commented: 

“I am delighted to join Addleshaw Goddard at such an exciting time, following its record financial performance. Addleshaw’s market-leading real estate offering and fully integrated European platform are a strong fit with my practice and clients. I look forward to supporting the business on its continued growth.”