Expertise
James deals with all aspects of non-contentious, commercial real estate law, including advising on conditional contracts, option agreements and leases.
He is experienced in acquiring sites for development/re-development for a variety of uses including business parks, industrial estates, distribution/logistics hubs and renewable energy facilities.
James has significant experience in the real estate investment sector, having advised on a number of acquisitions and disposals of assets ranging from shopping centres and retail premises to logistics and industrial estates.
Experience
- Advising a property investor in its acquisition of a large logistics hub for £9m and then securing a letting of the entire property to an occupier for a term of 15 years at an initial annual rent of in excess of £750,000.
- Acting on the £25m investment sale of a 1.25 million sq ft, multi-let industrial estate on approximately 60 acres producing a rental income of over £2.5m per year.
- Dealing with the investment purchase of four industrial units from a fund for over £11m.
- Acting on behalf of a large corporate occupier in the disposal of two vacant contaminated sites.
- Acting for a large regeneration company on the sale of bare land to a developer for £2m. The deal was complex in that it formed part of a wider ongoing development and considerations such as obliging the developer to deliver a link road, protecting the available electricity capacity to the wider site, surface water drainage and title issues had to be dealt with.