Real Estate
- Property Investment
We have advised on a considerable number of real estate disposals and acquisitions, acting for corporates, financial institutions and real estate investment funds.
When buying an investment property for clients, our time is spent on the following:
- Agreeing the transaction structure and documentation
- Due diligence on the title and occupancy details
- Financing arrangements and tax implications
- Reporting on commercial arrangements, especially management agreements (e.g. hotel management agreements), maintenance agreements (e.g. machinery maintenance agreements), etc
- Real Estate Disputes
We advise developers, investors, landlords, financial institutions, and joint venture partners on all aspects of real estate disputes. Here, we aim to offer the right strategic and tactical advice in order to enable clients avoid ligation or settle on the best possible terms through various forms of alternative dispute resolutions. Where court action is required, we aim to offer a service that is determined, robust and decisive.
Our particular experience in this area includes actual and potential breaches of high value contracts, distressed developments, security enforcement, professional negligence actions and all types of insolvency.
Our development expertise includes restrictive covenants, easements and land options.
Clients rely on our comprehensive landlord and tenant expertise, including in rent review, assignments and under-lettings, service charge disputes, contested lease renewals, injunction and forfeitures actions and leasehold enfranchisement.
We also guide clients through compulsory purchase and land compensation matters, and interference with land actions, such as trespass and squatter actions.
- Tenants and Occupiers
We act for tenants and other occupiers of offices and other types of property.
In addition to the usual title and other due diligence enquiries, we are particularly concerned to ensure that provisions which have, or may have, a significant impact on the financial obligations of our clients are fully understood and negotiated. These include:
- The length of the lease and any break options
- Rent reliability and rent review
- Use of the property, and constraints on that use and, or changes of use
- Insurance arrangements
- Alterations, both internally and externally
- Continuing liability
We offer our clients high quality real estate expertise, both contentious and non-contentious.
We provide advice to clients on high value real estate development and investment transactions, including joint ventures and leasing structures.
We can advise clients on all aspects of commercial property transactions, providing helpful advice on every stage of a project. We can advise on structuring, in addition to property management.
We advise on hotel and leisure work, construction and engineering, real estate dispute resolution and property taxation.
