If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well

Property disputes:

• contractual and tortious disputes arising out of the sale, purchase and development of land (including option and lock-out agreements and average claims)
• claims relating to nuisance, boundary disputes, rights of way, restrictive covenants and trespass
• rights of light and party wall issues
• professional negligence

Landlord and tenant disputes:

• opposed and unopposed statutory renewal of commercial property leases and operation of break-clauses
• rent reviews, including determination by arbitrators, independent experts and court proceedings dealing with construction points
• enforcement and interpretation of lease covenants, including forfeiture, damages, distraint and injunctive relief
• service charge disputes
• dealing with insolvent landlords or tenants and assisting insolvency practitioners with the preservation or disposal of property assets

We have advised:

• London Borough of Brent in defending claims for breach of trust and contract arising out of its use of Section 106 Agreement monies brought by the Trustees of the Neasden Hindu Temple
• British Steel Pension Fund Trustees on court proceedings to claim damages for contamination on an industrial estate
• The Crown Estate on a major mixed-use redevelopment in London W1 and obtaining vacant possession of the site of both residential and commercial blocks

• Procter & Gamble Group in proceedings against Brixton Plc concerning the exercise of a conditional break clause in a lease
• The Wellcome Trust on avoiding, managing and resolving disputes relating to its South Kensington Estate and other investment properties
• Various clients including The Wellcome Trust, Taylor Woodrow, Prudential and Sainsbury’s on rights of light issues arising out of developments

• British Steel Pension Fund
• Henderson Global Investors
• Procter & Gamble
• PRUPIM
• RREEF

• Resolution plc
• Sainsbury’s
• Taylor Woodrow
• The Wellcome Trust
• Westminster City Council