Nicholas is a skilled property partner with over 38 years’ experience in all aspects of commercial property and residential property practice, to include commercial and residential property development matters.
He has considerable experience and expertise in dealing with site assembly and disposal of both residential and commercial developments, with the associated negotiation of conditional agreements and options, and related planning agreements.
Nicholas acts for a range of both private and corporate clients. He also acts for developers involved in site acquisitions and subsequent disposal of new-build property and conversions of large, high-value country properties.
Expertise
- Site assembly and subsequent disposal of both residential and commercial development
- Conditional agreements, options and pre-emption agreements
- Overage, claw-back and joint venture agreements
- Planning agreements
- Freehold and leasehold residential and commercial sales and purchases
- New commercial leases, agreements for lease, lease renewals, rent deposit deeds and licences
- Corporate support
- Secured lending
Experience
- Acted on the sale of a brownfield development site to a housing association.
- Advised local residents on the property aspects and implications of a proposed compulsory purchase order in respect of neighbouring land for residential development of 1300 units and negotiated settlement terms and appropriate rights over the compulsory purchase land with a view to the withdrawal of the objection to the proposed order.
- Acted in respect of a number of sale and leaseback arrangements of light industrial and office premises connected with pension arrangements.
- Acted in the sale of a mixed-use town centre parade of shops.
- Acted in the acquisition of a new commercial lease of 50,396 ft² of warehousing office and light industrial property in Dartford.
- Advised on the acquisition and redevelopment of farm buildings and listed barns into four high value residential units and their subsequent disposal.
- Advised various developers on the acquisition redevelopment and disposal of residential units on various private estates and Crown Estate in Surrey to include St George’s Hill Weybridge and the Wentworth Estate.
- Provided corporate support in respect of the property aspects of the acquisition of a marine company on behalf of a European company.
- Advised on the property aspects of the division of doctor’s surgeries arising out of litigation following the dissolution of their partnership and subsequently drafting the documentation for the division of those properties and appropriate rights of pre-emption.
Career
Nicholas qualified as a solicitor in 1987. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2009, he worked at the following firms:
- Mundays
- Browns