Development
In a difficult market that offers both large issues but also
significant opportunities, you need a responsive, commercial
approach as well as solutions from your lawyers, coupled with legal
analysis and support.
Our service
We can help you in areas such as rights of light, ransom strips
and adverse title claims, negotiating overage agreements and other
pricing structures, anticipating issues arising from development
and joint venture agreements, advice on appropriate professionals,
squatters rights, and advice on particular sectors.
We advise on a wide range of projects, from City headquarters,
industrial and distribution parks and office complexes through to
hotels and leisure and residential developments both in the UK and
abroad.
We focus our services on your needs and provide solutions-based
advice. We tailor our approach to your requirements and the way you
work, building our teams to fit with yours. That teamwork means we
also work closely with your other consultants to ensure a thorough
understanding of the project and potential issues.
Our team have well respected credentials in the industry and we
advise an impressive selection of clients in a variety of sectors.
The advice extends to considering the appropriate tax structures
and most tax efficient vehicles, advising on funding sources and
development finance – and introducing clients to potential sources
of finance, dependent on the nature of the scheme.
Our experience
The following gives a flavour of our recent development
advice:
- advising landowners in relation to a joint venture agreement
for mixed-use redevelopment, taking into account their respective
interests and economic requirements
- advising the developer of a listed building comprising luxury
apartments and a luxury hotel, where part of the development was
over a railway terminal, with complex construction issues
- advising the developer on the phased development of a business
park including a local centre, pub and office buildings, as part of
a joint venture agreement
- advising retailers on development agreements for lease of
stores, focussing on ensuring the handover of completed anchor
stores in fully operational shopping centres
- advising regeneration clients undertaking mixed use (retail,
leisure, hotel and residential) developments, incorporating complex
issues such as overage, contamination and development within a
flood plain
- advising banks on multi-million pound loan facilities, where
the developer is constructing mixed-use sites, comprising
residential, health clubs, sports pitches, pubs and bars
- advising developers on joint venture agreements to secure
strategic land acquisitions and promotion of substantial
landholdings for residential use
- advising public sector clients undertaking substantial
regeneration projects, including mixed use development of
brownfield sites, the selection of the preferred developers,
development agreements, CPO powers, gap-funding and state aid,
complex grant funding arrangements, construction advice of a sports
track, negotiating relocation agreements, leaseback agreements,
discretionary and advance payments