Experience
Freedmans Law focuses on property in England & Wales. Danny is also qualified to practise in Scotland (since 1995) and New York (since 1996). He is listed as an Expert in Commercial Property (London) in the current edition of Legal 500 Experts, and won Legal Week’s IT Achiever of the Year Award in 2002. Danny is supported by skilled and experienced colleagues.
Whether acting for buyer or seller, landlord or tenant, developer or funder, we have experience of just about every kind of deal involving real estate, whether retail, office, industrial, leisure or residential.
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Corporate acquisition of furniture company, closing it down and then letting retail unit to Tesco.
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Site acquisition, pre-letting to Waitrose and development of retail store including setting up Jersey vehicles and offshore trusts, negotiation of security documents, planning agreements, professional appointments and collateral warranties.
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Acquisition of High Street shops with land at rear for site assembly of town centre car park redevelopment as a shopping centre.
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Corporate acquisition of Jersey Property Unit Trust owning 30 acre fully let industrial estate, then regearing leases through asset management and preparing part of property for change of use planning applications.
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Acquisition pursuant to options of 20 acre industrial estate, obtaining planning permission for mix of B1, B2, B8 and sui generis uses, leasing and construction of plots on pre-let agreements.
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Development and letting of A3 restaurant units and sales of flats above.
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Sale of site STPP for care home and working on successful planning appeal.
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- £30m London hotel development acquired via UK and Luxembourg corporate structures
- £109m refinancing of UK commercial property development and investment portfolio
- Advising central London based park trustees on café lettings and neighbouring development proposals