Kassra Powles
Partner
Nottingham
kassra.powles@brownejacobson.com
+44 (0)115 908 4806
Kassra is a partner in our real estate department, specialising in property development, regeneration and energy schemes across the private and public sector. His experience of acting for a wide range of clients – landowners, developers, local authorities, promoters – gives Kassra an understanding of all the players in a property development and can guide clients through the competing demands and conflicts that will arise along the way.
Kassra joined the firm as a trainee in 2010 and has developed a widespread practice across a number of sectors. He specialises in development and strategic land transactions, acting for landowners on option and promotion agreements as well as acting for private developers and local authorities on regeneration schemes and residential led developments.
Kassra is also our real estate lead within the wider energy practice, acting for landowners and developers on innovative energy schemes such as solar developments and district heating schemes.
Kassra leads our nationwide development club series, a regular workshop for our developer clients that runs across all of our UK offices. Kassra is also recognised as an expert on Lexology and shares thought leadership on property development and regeneration
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.
Testimonials
"He has excellent commercial acumen and has always looked at different ways of problem solving to ensure the deal can be achieved on time and within budget. The above combined with a calm manner and a great personality makes him a great lawyer and I cannot recommend him enough!"
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