Kassra Powles
Partner
Nottingham
kassra.powles@brownejacobson.com
+44 (0)115 908 4806
Kassra is a partner in our real estate department who specialises in property development and regeneration schemes, acting for both public and private sector clients.
Kassra has been with the firm since 2010 and is based primarily in Nottingham but acts for clients nationwide. Kassra specialises in development and strategic land transactions, acting for landowners and developers on option and promotion agreements for housing-led developments as well as acting for local authorities and government agencies on residential, mixed-use and commercial developments. His experience of acting for a wide range of clients – landowners, developers, public sector, promoters - gives Kassra an understanding of all the players in a property development and he can guide clients through the competing demands and conflicts that will arise along the way.
Kassra organises the firm’s Private Sector Development Club, a quarterly workshop for our private sector development clients.
Expertise
Featured experience
Land Promotion – Northern Trust
Advised a private landowner on the entering into of a promotion agreement in relation to agricultural land with potential for 100 new homes. We worked closely with land agents Fisher German to advise this client on the deal.
Mansfield District Council
We advised Mansfield District Council on its purchase of the former Beales department store, which the council intends to bring back into use as a multi-agency civic hub as part of a plan to regenerate this area of the town.
Chesterfield Waterside office development
Advised Chesterfield Borough Council on the funding of the development and purchase of One Waterside Place, bespoke office accommodation within the first phase of the £75m first phase of the Basin Square neighbourhood scheme.
Palatine Private Equity investment in Jessup
Kassra worked with our national private equity lawyers on Palatine Private Equity’s buyout of Jessup Brothers, a trusted partner to local authorities and an award-winning developer of high-quality affordable homes across the Midlands region.
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