Paul Olliff

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Partner

Commercial Real Estate & Real Estate Finance

Expertise

Paul is the real estate partner clients call before they’ve even found the site — and the one still on the phone long after completion

With over 20 years advising on commercial property, Paul has built a reputation across the retail, investment, development and real estate finance sectors for being the person clients simply hand a problem to. He gets involved from the very start — site search, structuring and Heads of Terms — through to the final negotiation of documents and everything that follows completion.

He is known as much for how he works as for what he delivers: always reachable by phone or email, and a genuine single point of contact as a deal moves through each stage. Several clients have stayed with Paul since the day he qualified — a track record built on clear, commercially grounded advice, however complex, high-value or time-pressured the transaction.

Paul Advises

  • High-net-worth individuals, in the UK and overseas
  • National and global retailers
  • Developers
  • Lenders

Across all of them, Paul is valued for cutting through multi-party, high-value and tightly timetabled transactions and giving advice that clients can actually act on.

Experience Highlights

  • Acts regularly for a range of high net worth individuals and companies, both overseas and national, on investment and letting matters, across most asset classes
  • Advised a national retail operator on its UK-wide roll-out from two stores to a network of over 60, negotiating every piece of landlord and tenant documentation along the way
  • Advised on the real estate elements of a global investment fund’s £500 million acquisition of a UK corporate
  • Acted for a developer on a complex site assembly — freehold acquisitions, option agreements over neighbouring land, and the eventual disposal of the assembled site to a third party
  • Acted for a high-net-worth individual on a mixed-use West London site: acquisition, letting the ground-floor commercial units, financing and developing the airspace into residential units, and the end sale of the completed units
  • Acted for a joint venture between a high-net-worth individual and a developer on the regeneration of part of an outer-London high street — spanning site acquisition, debt financing, exiting existing retailers, planning and property litigation issues, development refinancing and eventual disposal

Career History

Previous Law Firms

  • Fieldfisher
  • Browne Jacobson

Education

  • Nottingham Law School — GDL and LPC
  • University of Nottingham — BA

Rankings and Awards

  • Young Solicitor of the Year — Law Society Awards, 2009

Expertise

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Paul is the real estate partner clients call before they’ve even found the site — and the one still on the phone long after completion

With over 20 years advising on commercial property, Paul has built a reputation across the retail, investment, development and real estate finance sectors for being the person clients simply hand a problem to. He gets involved from the very start — site search, structuring and Heads of Terms — through to the final negotiation of documents and everything that follows completion.

He is known as much for how he works as for what he delivers: always reachable by phone or email, and a genuine single point of contact as a deal moves through each stage. Several clients have stayed with Paul since the day he qualified — a track record built on clear, commercially grounded advice, however complex, high-value or time-pressured the transaction.

Paul Advises

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  • High-net-worth individuals, in the UK and overseas
  • National and global retailers
  • Developers
  • Lenders

Across all of them, Paul is valued for cutting through multi-party, high-value and tightly timetabled transactions and giving advice that clients can actually act on.

Experience Highlights

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  • Acts regularly for a range of high net worth individuals and companies, both overseas and national, on investment and letting matters, across most asset classes
  • Advised a national retail operator on its UK-wide roll-out from two stores to a network of over 60, negotiating every piece of landlord and tenant documentation along the way
  • Advised on the real estate elements of a global investment fund’s £500 million acquisition of a UK corporate
  • Acted for a developer on a complex site assembly — freehold acquisitions, option agreements over neighbouring land, and the eventual disposal of the assembled site to a third party
  • Acted for a high-net-worth individual on a mixed-use West London site: acquisition, letting the ground-floor commercial units, financing and developing the airspace into residential units, and the end sale of the completed units
  • Acted for a joint venture between a high-net-worth individual and a developer on the regeneration of part of an outer-London high street — spanning site acquisition, debt financing, exiting existing retailers, planning and property litigation issues, development refinancing and eventual disposal

Career History

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Previous Law Firms

  • Fieldfisher
  • Browne Jacobson

Education

  • Nottingham Law School — GDL and LPC
  • University of Nottingham — BA

Rankings and Awards

  • Young Solicitor of the Year — Law Society Awards, 2009