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COMMERCIAL PROPERTY AND DEVELOPMENT
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Front cover image: Gateway House, FinchleyMoore Blatch client: Rocquefort Property Holdings LimitedMixed use residential, retail and commercial developmentArchitect: David Miller ArchitectsPhotographer: Agnese Sanvito
Inside cover image: Commercial redevelopment near Carnaby Steet, London W1Moore Blatch client: Private developerOffice and retail scheme fully-let and then sold for approx. £45m
Your legal advice on your dream home or investment should come from those with expert knowledge of law and who genuinely understand you and your aims.
At Moore Blatch, property is at the core of what we do. Our team of professionalswork collaboratively across a network of offices in the City of London, Richmond,Lymington and Southampton. With a wealth of experience in all sectors related toreal estate work, we can provide you with advice that is underpinned by technicalexcellence and, above all, is always commercial.
Our clients include well known high street brands, rural estates and landowners,property developers and investors, leading national housebuilders, lenders, landlordsand tenants. We provide advice on areas including property investment, development,finance, lending, planning, lettings, management and disposals.
We also have a dedicated real estate disputes team to deal with a wide rangeof landlord and tenant issues, contractor disputes to rights of way and restrictivecovenants should things go wrong.
As a top 100 law firm with over 50 partners, our commercialproperty and development team are well connected in thesector. If you have a new opportunity, we will be delightedto help you make that deal happen.
For further details about how we can assist you with yourcommercial property enquiry, please visit:
Or contact us on:
London: 020 3962 7333Richmond: 020 8744 0766
Lymington: 01590 625800Southampton: 023 8071 8000
Or email us on: [email protected]
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PLANNING, LICENSING AND DISPUTES
We guide you through all aspects of the planning process including applications, complex planning agreements, appeals, enforcement policy and judicial reviews.
Moore Blatch also offers a comprehensive licensing service that covers a detailed knowledge of local authority regimes, including alcohol licensing, entertainment, gambling and other licensing arrangements. Whether you operate a bar, club, pub, cinema, theatre, restaurant or shop and you need a new licence or are seeking a variation to an existing licence, our experienced licensing lawyers will give you the advice you need.
We can also help with all areas of real estate litigation and dispute resolution including lease renewals and opposing them, claims for breaches of covenant, rent and service charge recovery, real estate insolvency and other property disputes.
Our experts can help you navigate the planning and licensing systems and at the same time protect your property interests.
Planning legislation is constantly evolving. It is essential that you get appropriate advice and representation for your business.
“A safe pair of hands. It’s a high pressure environment so the lawyers
really have to perform and they do”Chambers and Partners
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RETAIL AND LEISURE
We work for some of the UK’s leading retail and leisure clients, including Camm & Hooper, Casper and Cole (Temper Restaurants), Drake & Morgan, and various retail and leisure leaders.
Many of our clients’ businesses are fast moving and experience rapid growth. Whether you are a start-up, entrepreneur or an established business, we can advise you on finance, leases, planning and licensing, purchases, sales, lettings and management. We also have strong landlord and tenant expertise.
Moore Blatch’s real estate team works closely with our corporate and commercial teams to provide services such as employment, dispute resolution and corporate and commercial support.
We look to understand our clients’ priorities from site set-up through to management and operations.
The high street is a very different picture today and you need lawyers that have evolved with the pace of change.
Temper Restaurant, London EC2Moore Blatch client: Casper & Cole LimitedNew letting on behalf of existing restauranteur client
PROPERTY FINANCE
As advisers to many banks and lenders, we understand the need to protect the lender and borrower, and to act in a commercial and responsive way.
We work with all types of financial institutions, UK and international, retail, challenger and merchant banks, which means we have an understanding of how each lender likes to work. We can advise you on restructuring, senior and mezzanine debt through to regulated loans, buy to let, bridge to let, development loans and commercial lending.
Our real estate development finance expertise also spans inter creditor arrangements, peer to peer lending, leases and repossession litigation.
We are associate members of the Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL), giving confidence to you and all parties involved in the transaction.
Your property finance arrangements can only be achieved in a commercial and timely way by lawyers that have experience with all types of lending.
Research and Development Facility, GloucestershireMoore Blatch client: International oilfield services companySold for an undisclosed sum
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OFFICES AND INDUSTRIAL
Wherever your property is located, our team hasthe knowledge and experience to guide you through all aspects of any commercial property transaction. Our multi-discipline office and industrial team acts for developers, investors and commercial landlords. We also act for occupiers including advising PLCs on their corporate real estate portfolios.
We pride ourselves on delivering a bespoke partner-led service. With a wealth of experience in the commercial property sector, our diverse range of clients means we have the expertise you need to develop, manage, let, finance or dispose of your property or portfolio.
As expert property lawyers we are excellent negotiators, open and transparent and are diligent in finding the right options for your transaction.
Office and industrial transactions are complex and they need lawyers that know these sectors inside out.
“Moore Blatch is commercially minded and see things from both sides. They know what works to
make the deal happen”Chambers and Partners
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With the diverging nature of the way healthcare is provided and the demographics of the population living longer,the face of healthcare is evolving.
Our team works with funds and investors of all types from private equity to venture capitalists and alternative investors as well as advising operators, landlords and tenants in this sector. All are connected with private and public healthcare, extra care and social care for the elderly.
We can advise you on healthcare mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, capital investment projects, as well as day to day operational advice for employment and governance.
Our lawyers have specific health and social care expertise, so we understand the risks and potential opportunities that can be gained in this sector.
The healthcare and care home sectors are continuing to develop withdifferent investment options and portfolio models available.
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
“Their commercial awareness and commitment to their clients is the equal of
any company I have ever worked with. They go above and beyond the call of duty”
Linden Homes
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
Our property lawyers understand the pressures and obligations you face when acquiring and developing land for new homes, and for the on sale of those new homes. We work with leading residential developers in the UK, including Barratt Homes, Bloor Homes, Churchill, and Persimmon, Registered Providers and boutique affordable home developers such as LandSpeed Homes, as well as private residential and mixed use developers.
Our clients are across London and the south, developing on rural, suburban and brownfield sites. We advise on the sale and purchase of land, development arrangements, estate set up including affordable home provisions and ground leases, and infrastructure. Our expertise includes promotion, overage and clawback arrangements.
Seperately to our market-leading residential practice, we offer a dedicated plot sales team.
We work with landowners and developers, so we understand the importance of negotiating the right deal for both parties in a timely and responsive way.
For many years we have advised housebuilders and private developerson all aspects of developing and selling new homes.
Siddington Road, CirencesterMoore Blatch client: Bloor HomesAcquisition and development of 55-home scheme
ABOUT MOORE BLATCH
People say we’re different.
Why? Because we believe the most important person in a legal team isn’t the lawyer, it’s you.
So we give you more than other law firms. More expertise. More depth. More clarity.
Whatever you face in life or in business, we won’t just be your lawyer, we’ll be your trusted friend and confidant as well.
Our job is to listen and understand, and then use our expertise to find the best solution for you.
The Engine Room hub at our Southampton office
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AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Here are just some of the areas in which we have commercial property and development expertise:
• asset management
• capital investment projects
• commercial development
• commercial investment
• insolvency, recovery and receivership
• joint ventures
• land development
• landlord and tenant
• logistics
• marine
• peer to peer lending
• planning and licensing
• plot sales
• private client and tax
• promotion agreements, overage and clawback arrangements
• property finance
• property disputes
• residential property
• retail and leisure property
• rural property
• sales and purchases
“Strong team for residential and commercial development that
continues to act for national and regional housebuilders. Also
equipped to handle property finance, landlord and tenant matters and
investment work”
Chambers and Partners
Moore Blatch is the trading name of Moore Blatch LLP, which is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales, registration number OC335180.
The registered office is Gateway House, Tollgate, Chandler’s Ford, Eastleigh SO53 3TG. VAT Registration Number: 188 6831 09. Authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
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