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Our clients expect us to be able to advise on all estates issues and we do not disappoint. Whether buying or selling land, landlord and tenant work, large scale development, property finance, establishing joint ventures for property development, planning and compulsory purchase, or environmental issues, we have the teams in place to advise. We provide a partner-led service and are used to working with colleagues elsewhere in the firm, typically on major projects to design, build, operate and finance significant new developments in pfi/ppp or in buying and selling companies where property is a significant asset.

Our recent work includes:

• acting for an institutional pension fund on the acquisition of a major mixed use premises in Covent Garden for £26m
• advising a university college in a joint venture with a regional development agency to acquire a former brownfield NHS site and redevelop it as a brand new mixed use campus, together with an associated venture with two local authorities to develop a joint library facility in the establishment of a learning quarter with a capital value in excess of £70m
• acting for a clearing bank providing development finance to construct a new shopping centre valued in excess of £100m
• acting for a number of institutional investors in the sales and acquisitions of shopping centres with values in the region of £70m
• acting for a local authority on the regeneration of a 70 hectare brownfield site as a brand new urban village in a joint venture with the regional development agency, including conducting a compulsory purchase hearing

Our clients include IM Properties, Wolverhampton City Council, Cala Homes, West Midlands Metropolitan Pension Fund.

We also have lawyers who provide a service to our private clients which includes residential conveyancing and agricultural work.

We have over 50 property and estates lawyers. Key contacts include: Martin Edwards, property disputes, John Rice, property finance; institutional investment and development; Clive Read, public law property and planning; Simon Coghlan, property support; James Spreckley, direct property investment and development; Angela Healy, environmental; Quentin Butler, Landed estates and agriculture.

Publications:

• Property
• Planning