Areas of Practice
Track Record
Advising HIG Capital on their £31m acquisition involving vacant possession strategy of occupational interest, rights of light releases and complex title issues
Lead for HUB Living on several transactions involving the coordination of corporate, planning and construction team dealing with acquisition documents, development management agreement, joint venture agreement and banking finance documents
Dealing with a significant Build to Rent disposal by way of a forward fund for £115m involving an agreement for lease, development funding agreement, equity guarantee, amendments to JCT contract and overage
Drafting option agreements and conditional contracts for national housebuilders
Project managing a long-term joint venture between a major housebuilder and a registered provider in the delivery of a large Homes England development site that has been ongoing since 2008
Dealing with a national housebuilder’s regeneration of a north London estate in collaboration with the local London borough
Advising a wholly-owned subsidiary of a London borough on its acquisition of approximately 15 sites worth over £27 million (and a gross developed value of over £254 million). These will be redeveloped for mixed-use, with a focus on the private rented sector involving complex title issues, rights of light advice, planning advice, party wall advice, temporary access licences, adverse possession, stopping up and highways issues, overage, conditional contracts and complex planning agreements
Advised on the property due diligence in L&Q’s complex and highly publicised corporate acquisition of a £505 million strategic land company
Education & Qualification
University of Leeds
University of Law
Qualified as a solicitor in 2011
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