Sector expertise:
- A wide variety of property-related contentious commercial property issues through negotiation, mediation or proceedings, including high value dilapidations claims, hostile lease renewals, multi-million pound development disputes, rights of light, rent review and development issues
- Professional negligence
Professional experience:
- Successfully acting for The Cavendish Hotel (London) Limited, part of The Ascott group of companies, in opposing the grant of a new tenancy to its retail tenant on the ground of redevelopment, which is now the subject of appeal proceedings to the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.
- Recovering news agency premises for Surrey Investment Limited, for significant breaches of the lease
- Supervising numerous lease renewal proceedings for various shopping centre owners, including CBREGi, in Colchester, Epsom and Hammersmith and Fulham
- Advising Legal and General in relation to environmental health claims arising from redevelopment works at The Grafton Centre, Cambridge
- Tactical advice to Phoenix Life Limited in relation to proposed refurbishment works at office premises in Redhill where a tenant threatened injunctive proceedings to avoid its quiet enjoyment being breached
- Advising Rockspring Investment Managers Limited on the interpretation of a rent share deed at premises in Manchester
- Advising Royal and Sun Alliance on a rent review, which has gone to third party determination, in relation to one of its industrial premises in Filton
- Advising UK commercial Property Trust regarding various dilapidations issues at Ventura Park
- Advising Fragrance UK on its rights of light claim against a developer in Manchester
- Successfully defending in 2015 on behalf of Qatari Diar an application by Chelsfield for summary judgment seeking specific performance of an expert determination and the terms of a development management agreement for a prestigious multi-million pound hotel development
Professional history:
- Trained at Lovells, 1991 – 1993
- Solicitor at Lovells, 1993 – 2006
- Of Counsel at Lovells, 2006 – 2015
- Partner at Maples Teesdale, 2015
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