Our many case highlights include:
- Strategic advice to an institutional landlord client to avoid a claim for forfeiture of its head lease, coupled with a potential specific performance claim against the sub-tenant
- High Court proceedings in relation to the purported termination of an agreement for lease by a car park operator, where the availability of a fully operational car park was critical to the success of a £40 million development. The team was able to negotiate a settlement which enabled the development to open on time
- Strategic advice to a Law of Property Act receiver to implement the development of a shopping centre, attracting one of the major supermarkets as an anchor tenant and recovering possession of residential and commercial units through court proceedings and negotiation
- Advising a substantial development company in relation to a rent review dispute at a retail park worth approximately £2.6 million on basis of capital value. Proceedings were brought in the High Court with the team taking the unusual step of appealing an arbitrator's award on the grounds of serious irregularity
- Acting on behalf of a financial institution to obtain relief from forfeiture of premises over which the client held a charge, where the borrower had fraudulently obtained advances from the bank
- Rent review arbitration, involving a complex legal dispute concerning the appropriate basis of valuation of unusual premises where there is little by way of comparable evidence
- Acting for a developer in a complex and contested lease renewal and disputed exercise of a break clause reported in the Crossco No.4 Unlimited & Ors v Jolan Ltd & Ors (2011) case
- Numerous very high-value professional negligence claims
- English aspects of extremely long-running Singapore trust litigation
- Substantial dilapidations disputes for both landlords and tenants
- Several contested break notices
