Hillyer McKeown was recommended in the Legal 500 for property finance,

with Commercial Property Head Victoria Jones enjoying

an excellent reputation among lenders. The firm is praised for its

'responsiveness, commercialism, pragmatism and proactive'

approach.

Commercial Property Solicitors

The Commercial Property team at Hillyer McKeown provide timely, focused, and practical legal advice on landlord and tenant issues, and commercial sales and purchases of property. We are committed to a team approach to ensure proactive handling of all matters. The team's industry knowledge and understanding of their clients' businesses enables them to identify the key issues in any commercial property deal thus minimising the risk and maximising each available opportunity.

Our areas of expertise include:

All Commercial Property Matters:

• Negotiating/drafting Leases for both Landlord and Tenant
• Lease renewals
• Rent reviews
• Licences to assign, underlet or alter
• Managing portfolios for property investors
• Dilapidation issues

Bank, Financial Institutions/Private investors:

• Corporate funding
• Security documentation
• Secured lending
• Development funding (including finalising JCT contracts and collateral warranties)
• Joint venture arrangement
• Collateral warranties
• Loan and credit agreements
• Bridging/Mezzanine Funding

Acquisition/Disposal of Commercial Property/Development Sites:        

• Industrial, retail, office property
• Pension fund acquisitions/disposals
• Purchases and Sales for Charitable Institutions including compliance with the Charities Act 2006)
• Site assembly    
• Corporate support
• Warranties and indemnities
• S106 Agreements/S38 Agreements and S104 Agreements
• Options/conditional contracts/overage
• Construction documentation such as JCT Contracts and Collateral Warranties.

The team iswell regarded and has strong links with lenders, accountants, surveyors and commercial property agents throughout Chester, Merseyside and beyond.

The team also has strong connections with Commercial Funders including bridging finance to enable deals to be affected quickly and longer term finance requirements.

The team was recently appointed to the Short Term Business Finance Panel.

Our fees are calculated on an hourly basis but we are happy to discuss fee arrangements including estimates of likely fees for a matter, fixed or capped fees.

View contact details for Victoria Jones - Head of Commercial Property
View recent deals