Property

Experience

Recent work includes acting for:

Lincoln Financial Group in proceedings over the ownership of its UK head office premises worth around £40m;
P&O Property Holdings in its successful claim for specific performance of part of a £105m sale of a portfolio of shopping centres;
a leading telecoms company over the acquisition and development of sites for its 3G network;
Scottish Provident Institution in rectification and title dispute proceedings involving Prestige Properties and the chief land registrar;
Barings Trust Company in proceedings against the City Corporation and the London Borough of Islington;
Scottish Widows in Court of Appeal proceedings concerning lease break provisions;
a tenant of premises in Hong Kong, in securing a charging order over the landlord’s properties;
Citibank in proceedings considering the interpretation of a headline rent review clause;
Merton College, Oxford in its dispute with the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies over a proposed development in central Oxford; and
English Welsh & Scottish Railway on a disputed building lease agreement for the construction of a waste disposal plant.

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Regulatory team of the year - JUVE Awards (2009)

Dispute resolution law firm of the year - JUVE Awards (2008)