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Working as part of your professional team, our expert lawyers helps manage your project from inception through to completion. We have a wealth of experience across all areas of development – meaning we offer a pragmatic and commercial approach, finding workable solutions and providing a smooth delivery for your projects.
Our clients include developers, local authorities, government agencies (including the Homes & Communities Agency), promoters, housing associations and landowners looking to realise the value of their property assets. This experience of development from different perspectives is one of our unique strengths, whichever sector you operate in, we understand the stakeholders involved in your deals.
Our expertise include - commercial and mixed-use development, residential development, regeneration, urban extensions, joint ventures, promotion agreements, renewable energy projects and investment and funding structures
Full service legal solution - we can support you on planning, procurement processes, choosing the correct joint venture vehicle, environmental law advice, construction issues and documents and tax advice and developing tax efficient structures.
Over 50 lawyers – based in Birmingham, Nottingham and Manchester.
Legal 500 regional real estate team of the year 2013.
Our breadth of experience means we know what the market will (and will not) accept - we won’t sit on the fence – our advice will be clear and have a firm recommendation.
Talk to us about flexible, transparent fee arrangements - we understand the market you are in.
Read more about our latest real estate update aimed at in house lawyers (and other professionals) practising in the property and real estate sector.
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Read more about our latest real estate update aimed at in house lawyers (and other professionals) practising in the property / real estate sector.
The Upper Tribunal was wrong to allow restrictive covenants to be modified where a development was deliberately and cynically carried out in breach of those covenants.
Advising on a £250m urban extension , comprising more than 400 acres, to be developed as 1700 new homes, a new school, an innovation park and a 26 acre commercial park, generating 4000 new jobs. Our work included the collaboration agreements, a complex site assembly, land options, equalisation arrangements dealing with the treatment of development value and project expenditure, tax advice on the JV structure, funding issues and renegotiating various historic agreements affecting the project area.
Advising Charnwood Borough Council on its ‘Eastern Gateway’ regeneration of Loughborough town centre involving the redevelopment of an 11 acre site as 120 new homes together with major improvements to the town’s train station, a new link road and other transport infrastructure. We advised on procurement issues, site acquisition and subsequent development agreements with a housing association (to take the affordable housing on the scheme), the highway authority and two separate rail companies.
Acting for Derby City Council on the development of Infinity Park - a new business park on a 200 acre site and anticipated to generate 1.5m square feet of new buildings – our advice included; Site assembly, development agreements for major infrastructure delivery and complex funding arrangements, together with advice on construction, planning, state aid, procurement, tax and banking issues.
Advising the Homes England on £60m of regeneration planned for a former colliery; including planning and site assembly advice, negotiations with the private sector developer procured to provide phased delivery of the residential development and commitment to fund the road infrastructure as well as dealing with Homes England funding agreements with other landowners.
Advising Mortar Developments on its fourteen storey “Global Point” mixed-use development in Nottingham, providing 449 high-spec student bed spaces together with retail/A3/office space and basement car parking facilities. We dealt with the variation/release of a number of third party interests, a rights of light claim, law firms across several foreign jurisdictions, and the relocation of existing leases affecting the site.
Some commentators had anticipated that persisting retail sector challenges might disrupt more than the make-up of the high street or commercial property negotiations between landlords and tenants.
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The Treasury Committee has just published its report on its inquiry into the administration of business rates in England and, at first glance, it could be the catalyst to drive the change that many businesses have been calling for.
A tenant who does not want to be forced to complete a lease if an obligation in the agreement for lease is breached must provide expressly for this in the agreement.
Are you frustrated by Brexit? If so, that’s more than can be said of the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) £13m a year lease at Canary Wharf.
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