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Blanchards Bailey LLP
BUNBURY HOUSE
STOUR PARK
BLANDFORD FORUM, DORSET
DT11 9LQ
England
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Work Department

Commercial Property and Development

Position

Robin Cole is a Solicitor at Blanchards Bailey, specialising in Commercial Property and Development.

Career

Robin Cole is a highly experienced commercial property solicitor specialising in Commercial Property and Development. With over 30 years of specialist experience, Robin has spent most of his career in partner-level positions at some of London’s most prestigious law firms.

Before joining Blanchards Bailey, Robin headed specialist real estate teams at Mayfair firm, Forsters LLP, representing institutional pension funds committed to the commercial property sector.

Today, Robin provides commercial property advice to individual clients, family trusts, developers, property companies, and investors. Over the past four decades, he has honed his expertise in acquisitions, disposals, and joint ventures, as well as profit-sharing formulations, cooperation agreements, and associated tax and offshore jurisdiction issues.

Robin offers an essential source of expertise for any client seeking advice on commercial landlord and tenant law, real estate development in the commercial and residential sectors. He can also advise on joint ventures and co-ownership, profit-sharing schemes and structures, landowner/developer collaboration and development promotion agreements.

Robin is a member of the City of London Solicitors Guild, a Liveryman of the City of London, and past editor of Butterworth’s Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents Sale of Land volumes 37 (1) and (2).

Memberships

  • The City of London Solicitors Guild (membership)
  • The City of London (liveryman)

Lawyer Rankings

South West > Real estate > Commercial property: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall

Offering ‘superb industry knowledge and practical, clear advice’Blanchards Bailey LLP‘s agricultural and commercial property team excels in advising farming, landed estate, and high-net-worth clients. Having recently taken over the reins in April 2023, Sarah Dunlop leads the team and is well-versed across a breadth of agricultural property law including rural land transactions, farm tenancies, farm partnerships, and land matters. Consultant and former group head Robin Cole is highly experienced across the commercial real estate, finance, and property development spaces. The team is split between the firm’s Blandford, Dorchester, and Weymouth offices.