Valerie is a commercial property lawyer with many years experience of advising both businesses and individuals on all aspects of commercial property including retail, offices, warehouses and industrial buildings with particular emphasis on landlord and tenant matters and freehold and leasehold sales and purchases.
Expertise
- Landlord and Tenant – new leases including agreements for lease
- Property Portfolio management – assignments, licences, underleases, surrenders, lease renewals
- Freehold and long leasehold sales and purchases
- Property corporate support
- Secured lending
- Conditional contracts
- Options and pre emption agreements
- Acquisition, disposal and mortgaging of residential investment property portfolios
Experience
- Acting for an investment trust on its acquisition of a large building for mixed use. Dealing with the leases of the commercial units and grant of an intermediate reversionary lease incorporating rights of pre- emption and an option to purchase the freehold
- Acting in the review of the title to over 500 properties
- Carrying out the property support work for a multi- national company group restructure
- Acting for a large northern company in its acquisition of a new listed building multi- use part tenanted headquarters and subsequent remortgages of the same
- Many years spent carrying out property portfolio management for a large multi national group of companies
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.
Career
Valerie qualified as a solicitor in 1983. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2010, she worked at the following firms:
- Lupton Fawcett
- DLA
- Hammond Suddard