Birkett Long LLP.

Birketts LLP’s commercial property practice is led by Grace Kerr, Amanda Early and Steven Kay, advising on a broad range of development, investment and asset management transactions. Kerr assists with the disposal of land benefiting from planning permission for residential schemes. Early advice on refinancing of large care home assets and property elements of major national events involving site occupation and access rights. Kay handles joint ventures and multi-developer residential schemes, including LLP structuring and site acquisition and development. Hannah Harbottle advises on acquisitions, leases and charity-related land matters, while the team and Joey U handle refinancing, leasehold transactions and portfolio asset management work.

Ellisons’ practice draws on cross-border and domestic experience across EU matters, with Guy Longhurst, Christopher Harvey and Ross Wiltshire forming part of the leadership group. Longhurst advises on consortium schemes delivering residential units across sites. Harvey assists with farm disposals, acquisitions and purchases of garden centres. Wiltshire advises lenders and banks on secured lending, leases and mixed-use development funding. Philip Roberts handles cross-border acquisitions and multi-let leasing, while Andrew Fernandes and Wendy Martin assist with healthcare property, lease structuring, assignments, and portfolio transactions.

Led by Rebecca Mason, Chris Milner, and Laura Gale, the team at Holmes & Hills handles development, strategic land, and investment matters. Mason focuses on grazing licences, exclusivity agreements, and hybrid promotion agreements with embedded options. Mason also advises on refinancing, title issues, including mines and minerals exclusions, and hotel acquisitions. Milner handles lease agreements for supermarket developments, lease surrenders, Golden Brick agreements, and farm purchases. Gale leads on property portfolio restructuring and staged finance, and advises on development acquisitions with overage releases and conditional land disposals.

Handling a range of development-led transactions, Tees Law‘s practice is led by Aaron Cane, who advises on complex land assembly for residential development, including negotiating option agreements across land parcels, promotion agreements, and acquisitions with s.106 agreements. The team handles conditional leases for supermarket sites and acts for landowners on development site disposals. Jane Winfield assists with property portfolio matters, including acquisitions and sales. Daniel Fairs advises on farming expansions, solar developments, lease renewals, option agreements, and estate-led farm disposals. Lucy Beck handles lease assignments and advises on repossession and re-letting following planning permission for open storage schemes.

Property transactions across estate planning, development, and investment are central to Palmers‘ practice. Elena Nicolaou handles lease surrenders, long-lease acquisitions, multi-plot purchases, and land transfers, including estate-planning gifts and acquisitions for residential development schemes. Carey Jacobs advises on corporate real estate matters involving share sales, lease grants and assignments on industrial estates, and freehold transfers within group structures. The team also handles portfolio restructuring and transactions, including the transfer, financing, and leasing of hotel assets.

At Paul Robinson Solicitors LLP, the team covers development, investment and occupational property matters. Mark Deans advises on the disposal of a freehold car dealership subject to an occupational lease, including negotiations on the parent company guarantee and commercial leases. Claire Bradley handles land promotion agreements and conditional acquisitions with sub-sales. Wendy Cole focuses on redevelopment schemes, lease restructuring, section 106 negotiations and phased option agreements for mixed-use developments. All three mentioned head the practice.

Led by Stephen Firmin, the team at Thompson Smith and Puxon advises on complex rural and commercial property matters, including the re-organisation of manufacturing and distribution sites, renewable energy option agreements for solar and wind projects, and consolidation of agricultural portfolios through corporate structuring and land transfers. Joanne Kelly supports with partnership restructures in the care sector, lease transactions, and conditional disposals involving mixed-use and development-led schemes, including planning-related sales and asset realisation strategies.

Aquabridge.

Advising across development and investment matters, the team at Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP  is led by Keeley Miller. Miller handles acquisitions, lease extensions, hotel and restaurant business sales, and development-related supplemental agreements. The wider team includes Matthew Desborough, who advises on estate purchases, care home auctions and industrial unit leases, and Sarah Shea, who focuses on portfolio management, refinancing and lease structuring.

Amelia Hayes, practice head at Jefferies Essex LLP, advises on a range of property transactions, including development, finance, and investment. Hayes handles transactions such as residential block disposals, joint ventures, financing arrangements, and option-based deals, as well as resolving property and title issues. Helen Martin focuses on acquisitions, refinancing, lease structures, and landlord-tenant matters, including leasebacks, reversionary arrangements, S106 agreements, and commercial lettings.

At Pinney Talfourd LLP, the practice led by Julien Pritchard advises on the review and disposal of large commercial sites, including sales subject to overage and pre-emption arrangements, as well as lease renewals and the restructuring of office and warehouse space. The team also handles retrospective licences, SIPP lease work, auction sales, and development matters, including options, residential land acquisition and solar farm leases.