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odders’ Real Estate team’s specialist market knowledge and legal expertise has earned it consistent top tier rankings in the Legal 500 and Chambers directories, industry awards, and clients including many of the UK’s most active housebuilders, property developers and land promoters. Partner James Mottram reviews some of the team’s latest highlights.
Using a combination of our technical know-how and understanding of every aspect of commercial property and real estate law, we are ideally placed to provide a full service for local, regional and national residential and commercial developers, land promoters, landowners, logistics companies, investors and owner-occupiers. Led by Mark Miller, the team is the largest in the Midlands, with 30 specialist real estate, commercial property, planning, construction and highways legal experts (as of April 2021), based across our offices in Stratford upon Avon, Cheltenham and Birmingham. The size of our team means we have the strength and depth of experience, whilst remaining agile enough to enable our clients to really get to know the individual or team working for them. We genuinely work in partnership with our clients, with the focus on delivering the highest possible level of client service, built on some fantastic professional and personal relationships that are especially vital to client transactional work. This contributes to a team that is thriving, energetic, always motivated, and which acts on a huge variety of transactions for existing – many long-standing – clients, as well as numerous new clients and instructions.
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Lodders Life Issue 7
FEATURE: REAL ESTATE
Portfolio We act for national and regional property developers in the commercial sector, investment companies and individual investors, banks and pension schemes. Our clients include many of the region’s most active property developers and land promoters including St Modwen Developments, Spitfire Bespoke Homes, Cameron Homes, A.C. Lloyd Homes, Hayfield Homes, IM Land, Richborough Estates, Lone Star Land and Rosconn Strategic Land. Our reputation as experts in strategic land development work continues to grow, and the team regularly works for large landowner consortia and landed estates, and national and regional land agents on significant new settlements and developments. The team undertakes investment and portfolio management work for two of the biggest property companies in the Midlands - IM Properties plc and St Modwen Properties plc. Our highways law expertise is second-tonone. The team has a national reputation for its expertise in all matters concerning highways, which is a highly technical area of the law. We regularly act for national housebuilders, developers, landowners, and local authorities, providing this specialist advice.
The size of our team means we have the strength and depth of experience, whilst remaining agile enough to enable our clients to really get to know the individual or team working for them.
Launches As the team has continued to grow, two new service offerings have been created to capitalise on our lawyers’ individual expertise and experience, and deliver an end-to-end comprehensive service to clients: • Business Property and Renewables team headed up by partner, Alastair Frew • Town and Country Homes team headed up by partner, Caroline Nemecek.
