Shoosmiths LLP

Real Estate

Jill is a Partner in real estate with extensive experience of working in the property sector. She specialises in acting for national housebuilders in all aspects of the acquisition process, in relation to both strategic and immediate land.

She regularly deals with a variety of transaction types including conditional contracts, strategic options, promotion agreements, regeneration schemes, multi-party collaboration agreements and overages.

Jill advises her clients as to deal structures and assists with heads of terms to ensure the deals progress as smoothly as possible from the outset. She has a collaborative and proactive approach and is known for driving deals forwards and effectively managing difficult situations.

Jill’s experience includes:

· Advising a consortium of national housebuilders in relation to a development of over 1,100 houses in Oxfordshire including partitioning of the site, day to day development advice, deeds of grant, sales required as a result of planning obligations etc;

· Acting for a PLC housebuilder in relation to a large-scale inner-city regeneration project alongside a local authority;

· Advising on the acquisition of a site of over 1000 units in West Sussex for a PLC housebuilder and subsequently dealing with ancillary agreements, deeds, overage payments etc to facilitate the on-going development;

· Dealing with a 4-phase scheme in the midlands for a national housebuilder in collaboration with a local authority;

· Working for a national housebuilder in relation to the acquisition of a 3-phase scheme via a conditional contract with deferred payment, collaboration agreement and complicated planning structure;

· Acting for a PLC housebuilder on the acquisition of a 500 unit site on the south coast providing much needed new homes, affordable housing, improvements to infrastructure and local facilities.