Slipperfield’s Director, Gillian Murray, has led numerous and various pre-acquisition due diligence, dilapidations and survey projects across her 24+ years career. She has led national service lines and overseen delivery of pan-European portfolio instructions. Here are some key examples of Gillian’s work, note, for confidentiality reasons, we have not provided specific client details.
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Gillian was project director, leading three survey teams in the delivery of vendor technical and environmental due diligence in respect of three 5-star hotels in England.
Date: 2025. Sector: Commercial, Hospitality
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Gillian was project director and led the delivery of a suite of due diligence services, overseeing production of a detailed report in respect of three London aparthotels.
Date: 2025. Sector: Commercial, Hospitality
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Gillian was project director and led a suite of due diligence services and oversaw production of detailed reports in respect of the client’s acquisition of a nationally significant listed building that is currently operated as a hotel.
Date: 2024. Sector: Commercial, Hospitality
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Gillian was the client account manager and led delivery of TEDD services, including coordination of pre-acquisition phase 2 soil and groundwater investigations, to support a client’s M&A work across the UK and Europe.
Date: 2022-2025. Sector: Commercial, Cold Store Logistics -
Gillian led the delivery of a multi-discipline vendor technical due diligence project of 33 hotel and leisure complexes around the UK. The team surveyed this portfolio as part of an investment transaction in early 2022 and the owner came direct to carry out the vendor technical due diligence.
Date: 2024. Sector: Commercial, Hospitality. -
Gillian led the delivery of summative technical due diligence surveys and reports in respect of a portfolio of theme parks, including provision of specialist advice from leisure parks specialist engineering teams and health and safety consulting team.
Date: 2023. Sector: Commercial, Hospitality & Leisure -
Gillian led and was part of the survey team to provide 21 detailed TEDD, ESG and Energy advice reports to support a client’s refinance of one of its hotel portfolios across the UK and Ireland. Gillian also authored a separate overview report summarising the key findings across the portfolio with associated cost analyses.
Date: 2023. Sector: Commercial, Hospitality -
Gillian led a technical due diligence survey exercise to support a specialist student accommodation client’s acquisition of seven purpose-built student accommodation assets around the UK. The project involved reviewing vendor reports, carrying out TDD surveys and incorporated specialist fire engineering advice, all turned around within six weeks of survey visits.
Date: 2022. Sector: Commercial, Student Accommodation -
Gillian led a pan-Europe technical and environmental due diligence survey exercise to support client’s acquisition of a 128-asset logistics portfolio spread across seven countries. The project involved reviewing vendor due diligence reports, costs analyses, plus site visits and ‘from scratch’ detailed TDD & EDD reports on a sample of assets. Delivered reports within eight weeks of survey visits plus further concurrent EDD workstreams. Gillian coordinated experts and subconsultants from France, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Poland, Ireland and the UK to support the project.
Date: 2022. Sector: Commercial, Logistics -
Gillian led the delivery of a suite of pre-acquisition services to support a client’s purchase of a heritage asset in London with a view to convert it to life sciences labs, including TEDD, RCA and engineering advice.
Date: 2022. Sector: Commercial, Life Sciences -
Gillian led the delivery of a multi-discipline due diligence project of 33 hotel and leisure complexes around the UK to turn reports around within an eight-week window to meet the client’s deadlines.
Date: 2022. Sector: Commercial, Hospitality.