Deal Alert
Successful property developers understand the importance of instructing a legal partner with extensive relevant experience, specialist knowledge and a clear understanding of the practical and commercial pressures and the unique challenges of each development.
We specialise in advising developers and landowners on long-term strategic acquisitions and disposals and collaboration, consortium and promotion agreements, as well as site assembly and conditional and unconditional transactions.
The team includes lawyers that focus exclusively on development transactions and are therefore ideally placed to respond to the challenges and pressures that arise from development transactions and are familiar with the frequent need to provide fast and commercial advice and to meet pressing deadlines.
Our team is often involved in transactions at an early stage to provide advice on structure and other strategic considerations. We routinely advise clients on securing overage, clawback and indexation payments and on issues concerning easements, covenants and indemnity insurance.
Our team also advises on planning and infrastructure agreements, including arrangements covered by section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act and utility and highway agreements. We also advise on the particular challenges arising from the Community Infrastructure Levy.
We also act for a number of banks and financial institutions in connection with secured lending for development projects and can provide assistance relating to all elements of primary and secondary acquisition and development finance and joint venture structures.
The team has embedded itself in the development sector and has a broad network of fellow professionals, including architects, planning consultants, funders, surveyors and accountants, with specialist knowledge of the sector that we are only too happy to share with our clients and contacts, to ensure the smooth delivery of development projects and to help overcome any issues that arise.
