Keystone Law

Commercial property.

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. The areas in which she specialises are 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 and conditional contracts. Valerie’s key achievements include 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 multinational company group restructure and 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.

Trained Walker Morris, qualified, 1983. Levi & Co, 1983-85; Hammond Suddard, 1985-89; DLA 1989-96; Morley Mitchell, 1996-2006; partner, Fox Hayes, 2006-09; Lupton Fawcett, 2010; Keystone Law, 2010.