Property development solicitors, lawyers and barristers at Keystone Law

To develop property successfully, you will need to work with lawyers with experience in a range of different expertise, including funding, planning and construction.

Keystone’s Property Development team consists of specialist solicitors who offer a wide range of expertise and the technical skills necessary to consistently deliver proactive and effective solutions.

Our property development services

Our dedicated team can advise on commercial and residential development projects from start to finish, whether you are acquiring a site, putting in planning applications, or regenerating property. We also provide specialist advice around areas such as planning, rights of light and construction. The team has considerable experience of advising on a wide range of property developments in commercial sectors, such as offices, industrial, retail and mixed use. This end-to-end service makes us invaluable partners, whatever the scope and scale of the development.

Who do we advise?

Our team of property development lawyers advise commercial property developers, house builders, funders and occupiers on all types of development projects.

Why choose our property development team?

All our work is led by partner-level lawyers who have been working in the sector for a very long time, so you can guarantee that you are receiving top-quality advice. Many of our property, construction and planning law specialists are highly recommended in leading legal directories The Legal 500 and Chambers UK. Lawyers in this team also regularly draw on the skills and advice of colleagues in litigation, corporate, tax, employment and competition to provide a fully cohesive service.

For further information or to discuss a property development matter, please telephone 020 3319 3700 or click here to email us.

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What makes this practice unique is the individual care and attention each partner provides to their clients. You always feel as though you are their only client with a dedicated personal service. The team is extremely strong in extensive knowledge on their specialties and will always give the very best advice in your interests, always looking to protect the client.

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Acting on student accommodation project for Nottingham Trent University where Barclays Bank, the lender, was advancing £60 million
Acting for the administrators of Lehman Brothers in respect of numerous property issues arising out of the administration
Advising a wide range of lenders including Royal Bank of Scotland, Aviva Commercial Finance, and HSBC in respect of the financing and refinancing of various UK commercial property investments and developments
Advising on the administration process involving two of the Targetfollow Group holding companies, incorporating circa 30 subsidiaries, negotiating a suite of documents under which another company within the Group now manages the portfolios and undertaking legal work in relation to the assets subject to the administrations, debt value of circa £700m
Acting for Aldar, one of the largest investment development companies in Abu Dhabi, with regard to a myriad of matters ranging from a key single let of a 60-storey tower to a strategic JV
Representing SSI UK Limited on its acquisition of the Tata Steel Europe Teesside Cast Products site in Redcar
Setting up an onshore limited partnership to enable the Royal Mail Pension Plan with two other major investors to acquire Tower 42 (formerly the NatWest Tower) in the City, and subsequent restructuring of the investment using an offshore unit trust
Acting on the complex acquisition of a portfolio of factory outlets for the BT Pension Scheme, the Royal Mail Pension Plan and Hermes Property Unit Trust, creating a structure involving six limited partnerships, and subsequently an offshore unit trust
Acting for major UK house-builder in respect of the acquisition and redevelopment of the historic, but contaminated Royal Arsenal Woolwich site (approx. redeveloped value £250m)
Advising the Home Office in respect of the property elements of an outsourcing project to secure three major new centres of accommodation
Acting on the £10m launch of Yo! Home through a Manchester development
Advising Neal’s Yard on acquiring leasehold properties to use as retail shops throughout the country, including retail space in the new Grand Central development in Birmingham

Please note: The experience list above features work carried out by lawyers who now work at Keystone Law however this work may have been completed prior to them joining the firm.