Tom Haigh

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Senior Associate

Real Estate

+44 7507 947 814

Expertise

Tom is an experienced real estate lawyer with a reputation for giving commercial and pragmatic advice to clients.

He advises on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions including freehold and leasehold acquisitions and disposals, commercial leases and agreements for lease, joint venture agreements, the real estate aspects of business asset/share purchases and sales, refinancing and development sites (including advising on development constraints, overage, option agreements, exclusivity agreements and conditional contracts).

Tom has worked with a diverse range of clients, including large institutional pension funds, banks, financial institutions, multinationals, corporate occupiers, shopping centre owners and some of the UK’s most well-known retailers.

Tom understands the business needs of his clients, having spent time in-house advising one of the world’s largest restaurant brands and having previously worked in a large global law firm for over 10 years.

Tom Advises

  • Landlords and investors
  • Tenants and occupiers
  • Sellers and purchasers
  • Property developers
  • Banks, financial institutions and private lenders
  • Private individuals, sole traders, partnerships and companies
  • Business owners

Experience Highlights

  • Acting for an institutional investor on the acquisition of a portfolio of industrial estates, and separately on the sale of a large industrial estate with a value in excess of £20m
  • Representing a landlord on a joint venture agreement with a flexible office provider in relation to a 29,000 sqft building in central London
  • Advising a large US chemicals company on the re-location of their UK headquarters
  • Acting for an institutional investor in relation to a high value pre-let of a high-specification service station and showroom to a leading American manufacturer of electric vehicles
  • Representing one of the UK’s leading sofa retailers in relation to the acquisition of a number of distribution centres and retail sites
  • Acting for a well-known UK retailer on the acquisition of a 170,000 sqft high specification logistics facility
  • Acting for one of the UK’s largest leading independent builders’ merchants in relation to their programme of strategic site acquisitions
  • Advising a global plastics manufacturing and recycling company on the acquisition of 270,000 sqft manufacturing and distribution facility
  • Acting for one of the world’s largest restaurant brands in the acquisition of drive-thru/restaurant sites nationally
  • Negotiating leases and agreements for the owners of some of the UK’s most well-known shopping centres

Career History

Previous Law Firms

  • Eversheds Sutherland LLP, Senior Associate

Education

  • University of Teesside – LLB (Hons) Law
  • College of Law, York – Legal Practice Course

Expertise

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Tom is an experienced real estate lawyer with a reputation for giving commercial and pragmatic advice to clients.

He advises on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions including freehold and leasehold acquisitions and disposals, commercial leases and agreements for lease, joint venture agreements, the real estate aspects of business asset/share purchases and sales, refinancing and development sites (including advising on development constraints, overage, option agreements, exclusivity agreements and conditional contracts).

Tom has worked with a diverse range of clients, including large institutional pension funds, banks, financial institutions, multinationals, corporate occupiers, shopping centre owners and some of the UK’s most well-known retailers.

Tom understands the business needs of his clients, having spent time in-house advising one of the world’s largest restaurant brands and having previously worked in a large global law firm for over 10 years.

Tom Advises

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  • Landlords and investors
  • Tenants and occupiers
  • Sellers and purchasers
  • Property developers
  • Banks, financial institutions and private lenders
  • Private individuals, sole traders, partnerships and companies
  • Business owners

Experience Highlights

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  • Acting for an institutional investor on the acquisition of a portfolio of industrial estates, and separately on the sale of a large industrial estate with a value in excess of £20m
  • Representing a landlord on a joint venture agreement with a flexible office provider in relation to a 29,000 sqft building in central London
  • Advising a large US chemicals company on the re-location of their UK headquarters
  • Acting for an institutional investor in relation to a high value pre-let of a high-specification service station and showroom to a leading American manufacturer of electric vehicles
  • Representing one of the UK’s leading sofa retailers in relation to the acquisition of a number of distribution centres and retail sites
  • Acting for a well-known UK retailer on the acquisition of a 170,000 sqft high specification logistics facility
  • Acting for one of the UK’s largest leading independent builders’ merchants in relation to their programme of strategic site acquisitions
  • Advising a global plastics manufacturing and recycling company on the acquisition of 270,000 sqft manufacturing and distribution facility
  • Acting for one of the world’s largest restaurant brands in the acquisition of drive-thru/restaurant sites nationally
  • Negotiating leases and agreements for the owners of some of the UK’s most well-known shopping centres

Career History

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Previous Law Firms

  • Eversheds Sutherland LLP, Senior Associate

Education

  • University of Teesside – LLB (Hons) Law
  • College of Law, York – Legal Practice Course