Commercial Property
Many of our clients are very well known in the South East; our clients include many household names.
Our Commercial Property Team attracts high value work from a diverse client base in the public and private sectors, including NHS Trusts, PCTs, government departments, utilities companies, banks, developers, GPs, charities, care homes, schools, institutions of further education and companies in the manufacturing, aggregates, paper and haulage sectors. We act for owners, occupiers and funders of commercial property and advise our clients on all legal aspects of property investment, property development, property management, secured lending and infrastructure. We work hard with our clients to deliver a cost effective service tailored to their individual business needs.
We advise on:
Property investment
- Buying and selling investment properties
- Sale and lease back
- Agreements for lease
- Leases
- Rent deposits
- Tenants’ guarantors
- Buying and selling at auction
Property development
- Site assembly
- Options
- Contracts conditional on planning
- Development agreements
- Joint ventures
- Overage and clawback
- Advising on dealing with squatters, title defects and contamination
Property management
- Rent reviews
- Tenant’s applications to assign, sublet, carry out works and change use
- Lease variations
- Tenants’ statutory renewal rights and lease renewals
- Lease surrenders
- Early access and short term occupations
- Portfolio management, terriers and land registration
Secured lending
- Advising borrowers and lenders
- Mortgages and charges
- Debentures
- Priority and inter-creditor agreements
- Advising on third party security
- Due diligence for lenders
- Perfecting security for lenders
Infrastructure
- Highways agreements
- Drainage agreements
- Utilities easements
- Electricity and telecoms wayleaves
- Telecoms mast agreements
- Wind turbine agreements
- Minerals and waste agreements
Corporate Transactions
- Property aspects of asset sale and purchase agreements
- Negotiation of property warranties and disclosure
- Property due diligence
- Reporting on title to purchasers and lenders
- Dealing with transfers and leases as part of corporate transactions
- Dealing with security documentation and priority and registration issues as part of corporate transactions
We can also advise on:
