COMMERCIAL PROPERTY LAW
Corporate Real Estate
Corporate real estate can present a real challenge, whether you’re looking to expand or set up a new company. Our team of commercial law experts can support you with all aspects of corporate real estate, offering practical advice which enables you to secure the best result. We have worked with businesses in all sectors and have a robust understanding of the different challenges each faces.
We can assist with finding real estate for a head office, expansion of a property portfolio or land for a new project. When combined with legal services including contractual law and leases, you won’t find anyone better qualified to protect and promote your best interests.
For more information about our commercial property law services please call us on +44 (0)20 3475 6751 or email info@carterbond.co.uk
More information on corporate real estate
Are you looking for some help managing your corporate real estate? Our experienced legal advisors can assist with all areas of commercial property law.
Making sure that your corporate property is closely aligned to the needs of your business is a priority for us, and we adopt a multifaceted approach to ensure this is the case. From providing expert analysis on new and emerging market trends to reviewing data and market insights, we provide legal services which are invaluable.
Buying a commercial property at auction
Your real estate portfolio is not a fixed entity and may need to flex with your business. Depending on strategic goals and specific business model, there may be sudden changes to what your company needs. We can assist by offering different real estate solutions and helping you to find the most profitable and economically beneficial outcome.
Some of the corporate real estate functions we offer includes:
- Acquisitions
- Transaction management
- Strategic real estate planning
- Due diligence
- Financial analysis
- Negotiation and execution
- Property portfolio audit
- Options and valuations appraisals
- Lease and service charge negotiations
- Review of current and forecast space needs
- Fit-out and design management
- Corporate property market research
- Development consultancy
Bespoke solutions
Corporate real estate is an area which needs to be carefully balanced to avoid stretching the company beyond financial capacity while still being ambitious enough to keep up with expansion. With tax and finance implications, plus potential for joint ventures, having an experienced legal team to support you with your corporate real estate is essential.
YOUR COMMERCIAL PROPERTY LEGAL TEAM
Shyamal Dawada
Property Law Consultant
Lena Thakrar
Property Solicitor
COMMERCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
Acted for a pension fund on the £55m acquisition of 3 office buildings and headed up the team dealing with the subsequent estate management
We have acted on both the landlord and tenant side and have completed over 700 lease grants and assignments
WHY CARTER BOND
Partner Led
Unlike many law firms when we say partner or barrister led, we mean partner or barrister led. When clients work with us, they get constant access to the lead on their instruction. Yes, we have a team of solicitors and juniors for some of the groundwork and necessary research required by our clients, but this is when it makes financial sense to the client for us to do this. We provide constant contact at no extra cost as part of our service as most of our lawyers have their own business, so they know first-hand how important having a proactive, responsible and trusted partner on their side can be. And also how to work to a financial budget, and the way that legal decisions impact the wider organisation, which often requires balancing risks and competing interests.
Proactive Contact
Many ask us ‘what’s different about you?’ and we like to reply, ‘because we go the extra mile’. We see our work as building and maintaining good business relationships rather than just earning fees. How we do this is by keeping in constant contact with our clients and intermediaries. From pre to post instruction we ensure that our clients are informed of all legal issues that may impact their business and therefore lives. That is why we provide daily or weekly updates to ALL of our clients whether there is anything to tell them or not (we don’t charge for this we just see it as part of our service). We like our clients to rest peacefully knowing that when we are instructed, and we say ‘we will take it from here’ they know we mean it.
City quality, outer City fees
The world is changing, and many individuals are realising that lifestyle is as vital to them as is income. We are the lucky ones who can hand pick lawyers who can provide the best quality advice but at outer city costs. Our offices are in North West London which may not be the most salubrious in the market but at the same time this allows us to charge our clients for what they pay for, our advice NOT our office space.
ALL our lawyers have previously worked in large city-based law firms and continue to practise and offer the same high level service they provided to clients in the City but without the pressure and demands often dictated by City law firm. This allows us to be competitive on our fees without compromising our service.
All in all, our clients win, which is the way we like it.
Our knowledge and resources are yours
All our clients benefit from the same high level of care and attention whether the instruction is big or small. At the outset of each matter, we discuss the entire process with our clients, including the costs, potential outcomes and issues associated. This is to ensure clients are fully aware, knowledgeable and are in control always. Supporting and ensuring we provide the highest level of services, we offer our constant contact process with the partner or barrister leading your file, a document log in for matters which are for larger and more complicated instructions and on-going support post transaction should our clients require it. Our aim is not just to get the work done, but to make our clients’ lives easier as we do it, which is why we ensure that our clients have regular access to the resources they need from us.
KIND WORDS
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For more information, or to discuss your requirements, please contact our team on +44(0) 20 3475 6751 or info@carterbond.co.uk