Global real estate advisor, CBRE, has appointed life sciences expert Emma Stratton as a director in its life sciences transactions team.
Stratton will focus on landlord agency, covering the London and Cambridge markets, and will be responsible for driving transactional growth and market presence for CBRE in the UK life sciences market.
She will be working closely with Chris Williams, in the life sciences occupier advisory team and Luke Hacking and Jeremy Rodale in London & South East Investor Leasing.
Stratton joins from Cushman & Wakefield, where she was a partner in the life sciences and specialist markets practice for the UK & Ireland.
Recent projects include providing strategic leasing advice to Canary Wharf Group when establishing their joint venture with Kadans Science Partner to build a major speculative development at North Quay.
Stratton was also the retained leasing advisor to Magdalen College and GIC on Oxford Science Park and worked with GSK to select a development partner to create a new life sciences campus and ecosystem.
Ross Howard, managing director, Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford knowledge corridor, CBRE commented: 'Emma’s depth of knowledge, outstanding client relationships and market expertise will be a huge asset to our rapidly growing transactional life sciences team.
'She will work closely with our market leading team of specialists to seek out opportunities for our clients across London and Cambridge in a sector that is seeing exponential growth and demand.'