The Occupier Services industry is under pressure but with that pressure comes the opportunity to ensure that the space you occupy is the best it can be for your business’s needs.
The Occupier Services industry is under pressure but with that pressure comes the opportunity to ensure that the space you occupy is the best it can be for your business’s needs.
Following a long period of disruptions where businesses made their offices 'COVID-safe', the focus must now shift to longer-term objectives, planning and investment going forward.
As a full-service law firm, we are uniquely placed in our ability to draw on the integrated resources of our real estate, planning, construction, disputes, technology, finance, employment and tax-related issues. We will work with you to deliver your new premises on time, on budget and with a minimal amount of disturbance to your business.
Legal issues you may face include:
- disposals
- acquisitions
- HQ relocations
- exit strategies including break options
- restructuring and regearing
- sale and leasebacks and
- portfolio management.
We also provide the comprehensive seamless service that occupiers require in specialist areas such as telecommunications, sustainability, environmental, corporate and financial structures.
We will work alongside you to provide creative solutions to difficult problems and to anticipate and mitigate risk. Whatever your plans are for your business, we work with you to ensure a commercial deal that is legally robust, whilst also understanding and assisting you with the management of your timetable so that you can plan the future of your business.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions relating to occupier services or require more information on returning to the office.
Highlights of our experience
- Acting for Avison Young in relation to their West End office move to recently refurbished premises at Berkeley Square House, taking a lease for a term of ten years. We have also provided Avison Young with advice and assistance on their exit from existing premises.
- Acting for Allfunds Bank in relation to their acquisition of their space (17,000 sq. ft.) in a brand new building at Fitzroy Place, London W1 on two separate leases. Subsequently we have acted for Allfunds in the disposal of one of those floors to Netflix Services UK Ltd.
- Acting for FTSE 250 investment and wealth management services provider, Rathbone Brothers plc on their move to Stanhope Mitsubishi’s new 160,000 sq. ft. City development, 8 Finsbury Circus, London, EC2 from 1 Curzon Street, Mayfair, the previous MI5 HQ.
- Acting for Montagu Evans in their headquarters move from the West End to brand new building 70 St Marys Axe in the City
- Acting for IQVIA Limited on its disposal of leasehold premises at Green Park, Reading to Virgin Media Limited and simultaneous acquisition of leasehold premises at M&G’s development at Forbury Place, Reading.
- Acting for Silver Lake Europe LLP in relation to their entry into a new UK headquarter lease in Grosvenor Street of approximately 10,000 square feet of space. We have recently acted for Silver Lake on their renewal lease of those leases.
- Acting on Royal Caribbean’s HQ at The Heights in Weybridge. We helped We helped Royal Caribbean to take and fit out additional space to expand its UK headquarters at the prestigious The Heights development, which forms part of the historic Brooklands estate in Weybridge.
- Advising NEC UK Limited on a complex restructuring of the occupation of its headquarters building.
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Hope Wilson
Hope Wilson writes for the EG Legal Q&A on qualifying criteria
Hope Wilson writes for the EG Legal Q&A on qualifying criteria
Lesley O’Leary
Briefing publishes Lesley O’Leary 's comments on hybrid working and the impact on collaboration
Briefing publishes Lesley O’Leary 's comments on hybrid working and the impact on collaboration
Cara Whiffin
The impact of ground rent reforms on Integrated Retirement Communities
The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill, which limits ground rents in new residential long leases, received Royal Assent on 8 February 2022.
Kelly Arnold
Could the proposed "online sales tax" help towards reviving UK high streets?
Louise Ward
City businesses support BIDs to improve local area
Kelly Arnold
Green leases - a step in the right direction?
Emma Preece
To flex or not to flex: comparing traditional offices with flexible office space
Ben Butterworth
COP26: Focus on Sustainability for Commercial Tenants
Jamie Cartwright
Energy crisis sparks questions of liability where hedged prices are not necessarily so.
Simon Green
AHIC 2021
It was another exciting year at the Arabian & African Hotel Investment Conference (AHIC) .
Paul McCarthy
Changes to Right to Rent Checks from 1 July 2021
Following the UK’s departure from the EU, the right to rent checks grace period of six months will end on 30 June.
Sarah Morley
Office Occupiers: What to do if you’ve got excess space
What should you do if you have excess space or the wrong space for your business?
Richard Flenley
A Cautionary Tale of a Brush Too Broad
Emma Humphreys
Lease renewals in the time of coronavirus
What flexibility tenants and landlord are going to have when negotiating on the terms of the lease renewal ?
Emma Humphreys
Abandoned premises: Abandon hope, all ye who seek re-entry?
What can landlords do when tenants are leaving premises abandoned without prior notice due to the evolving coronavirus crisis?
Emma Humphreys
Are property guardians the solution for empty property?
A property guardian arrangement is usually made with a company which in turn grants rights to individuals to live in a vacant property.
Usman Khan
Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards: what all office occupiers should know
Reviewing what impact the minimum energy efficiency standards have on office occupiers.
Lynsey Inglis
COVID-19: What if we need an EPC?
What considerations to take when obtaining or renewing EPC certificate?
Usman Khan
COVID-19 – The long term impacts on the office occupier market
Analyzing how the prolonged period of remote working will impact the office occupier market.
Sarah Morley
Office Spaces: a time to review?
Understanding how the current market circumstances will impact office-based businesses whose rent review due in 2020.