Joe is a property lawyer with over 30 years’ experience specialising in commercial and mixed-use freehold and leasehold property. His particular expertise centres on real estate investment, SIPP and SSAS transactions, asset management, secured lending, and property aspects of corporate acquisitions.
Joe advises on freehold sales and purchases, agreements for lease, conditional contracts, and option agreements. His clients include household-name pension and investment companies, as well as SMEs and high-net-worth investors based in the North East and across the country.
Expertise
Joe advises on commercial and mixed-use freeholds and leaseholds, including freehold sales and purchases, agreements for lease, conditional contracts, option agreements, and asset management.
Experience
Established a modular investment site via shipping containers (Loughton, Essex).
Acted on a £5m local council/Lottery funded redevelopment of historically and culturally significant buildings into a social housing scheme and community space (Keelmens Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne).
Acted on a relocation of the HQ of a large civil engineering company requiring the establishment of a newly built industrial park (Ashbourne, Derbyshire).
Joe advises investors, developers, and pension providers on commercial real estate purchases and sales, leases, and asset management.
Experience
Panel member for various pension companies involved in volume property-based investment (country-wide).
Acted in the turnkey relocation acquisition for an automotive supplier (London Borough of Croydon).
Acted in the management and disposal of flagship office premises for a SIPP pension client (Leeds).
Acted in the acquisition of multi-let new-build industrial premises for a SSAS client (Derby).
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.
Joe qualified as a solicitor in 1996. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2018, he worked at the following firms:
