Steve is a Senior Associate working in the Real Estate team in Leeds.
Steve has wide and varied experience in many aspects of property law with a particular focus on development, landlord and tenant, distressed assets and real estate finance.
Steve works closely with all partners in the Leeds team. He acts for a broad spread of clients but has a particular client base with insolvency practitioners and fixed charge receivers in both disposal transactions and asset management.
His recent project experience includes advising on:
- acting on behalf of a leading motorway service area operator on the sale of the whole business requiring the production ten large and complex certificates of title.
- acting on the acquisition of a set of three BSA condemned student accommodation blocks out of administration, the provision of three rounds of funding to remedy the building defects, the negotiation of a complex agreement for lease & lease with the Home Office before disposing of the assets.
- acting for an insolvency practitioner on the asset management of a portfolio of distressed assets across Manchester before ultimately disposing of the assets through a disposal strategy generating the best return for the lender.
- acting on the ground rent disposal of a portfolio of lodge holiday home sites across the UK