Legal Counsel

Real Estate & Real Estate Finance

Expertise

Michael is a real estate solicitor with over 20 years’ experience in the City and West End, handling acquisitions, disposals, landlord & tenant matters and property finance. He takes a proactive approach to transactions, focussing on the details that matter to clients and advising in plain English. Michael works together with clients to understand their business and ensure that their ultimate commercial objectives are met.

Michael Advises

  • Property investment and development companies
  • Business owners
  • Corporate and retail occupiers
  • Lenders

Experience Highlights

  • Dealing with the acquisition, financing and disposal of investment properties in Central London
  • Dealing with the letting and management work on an investment portfolio fronting a mainline railway station in Central London for over 10 years and on its compulsory purchase by HS2.
  • Acting for well-known high street retailers on a re-structuring deal of a 25 unit portfolio, on a lease renewal of a flagship store on Oxford Street and on a letting of headquarter offices.
  • Acting for well-known corporates on the acquisition of their leasehold headquarter offices
  • Acting for various lenders on the property aspects of both investment and development loans over a wide variety of assets.

Previous Law Firms

  • RIAA Barker Gillette (UK) LLP
  • Howard Kennedy LLP
  • Clifford Chance LLP
  • Nabarro LLP

Education

  • University of Glasgow – LLB (Hons)
  • Manchester Metropolitan University – CPE and LPC

 

Expertise

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Michael is a real estate solicitor with over 20 years’ experience in the City and West End, handling acquisitions, disposals, landlord & tenant matters and property finance. He takes a proactive approach to transactions, focussing on the details that matter to clients and advising in plain English. Michael works together with clients to understand their business and ensure that their ultimate commercial objectives are met.

Michael Advises

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  • Property investment and development companies
  • Business owners
  • Corporate and retail occupiers
  • Lenders

Experience Highlights

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  • Dealing with the acquisition, financing and disposal of investment properties in Central London
  • Dealing with the letting and management work on an investment portfolio fronting a mainline railway station in Central London for over 10 years and on its compulsory purchase by HS2.
  • Acting for well-known high street retailers on a re-structuring deal of a 25 unit portfolio, on a lease renewal of a flagship store on Oxford Street and on a letting of headquarter offices.
  • Acting for well-known corporates on the acquisition of their leasehold headquarter offices
  • Acting for various lenders on the property aspects of both investment and development loans over a wide variety of assets.

Previous Law Firms

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  • RIAA Barker Gillette (UK) LLP
  • Howard Kennedy LLP
  • Clifford Chance LLP
  • Nabarro LLP

Education

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  • University of Glasgow – LLB (Hons)
  • Manchester Metropolitan University – CPE and LPC