Butcher & Barlow LLP

Commercial Property

Partner and Co-Head of Commercial Property. Rachel has extensive experience in a variety of commercial property matters including:

•               Sales and acquisitions of freehold and leasehold land (with and without funding);

•               Estate management and Landlord & Tenant matters: agreements for lease, leases, assignments and underleases, alterations, renewal leases, variations and surrenders;

•               Portfolio refinancing;

•               Development: acting for developers, regional and national regeneration agencies, land owners and occupiers in connection with development agreements and conditional contracts, option and promotion  agreements, rights of pre-emption and overage;

•               Property finance: acting on behalf of both borrowers and lenders; and

•               Acting for NHS Trusts, Primary Care Organisation and Medical and Dental Practitioners.

Training contract at Muckle LLP in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Qualified in 1999.  Specialised in commercial property at leading national firms including Eversheds Sutherland and Hempsons.  Joined Butcher & Barlow in 2018 and became a partner in the Firm in May 2021.

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School: Ratcliffe College, Leicestershire; University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (LLB Hons. 2:1 - 1996); The College of Law, York (LPC-1997).