England - East Midlands • Real estate
Geldards LLP
The commercial property team at Geldards LLP specialises in residential and commercial development work, where they handle large and complex deals for some of the biggest clients in the market. Other key work streams are industrial and logistics matters, as well as work in the public, education, utilities and motor retail sectors. Managing partner Graham Banks leads the Derby team and specialises in operational property, property investment and planning and environment law. David Watson leads the Nottingham team with experience in in transactional commercial real estate work. Jamie Gordon is particularly active in the utilities sector, while ‘knowledgeable and committed’ Heather Dixon leads the team’s industrial and logistics work.
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Testimonials
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- 'Heather Dixon is the most knowledgeable and committed lawyer I've ever worked with. Her dedication to a deal is unbelievable, and her ability to juggle highly complex transactions whilst also working on several other deals at the same time is staggering'
- 'All staff share the same philosophy of client first.'
Key clients
- Cedar House Investments Limited
- Trent Motor Traction Company Ltd
- Nottingham City Council
- Sleekmade Property Co Limited
- Cenex Consulting Services limited
- Bowmer & Kirkland and Peveril Homes Limited
- Walgreens Boots Alliance
- Clowes Developments (UK) Limited and Dove Valley Park Limited
- DPK Management
- BioCity Group Limited
- Connections Legal Management
- Derby City Council
- Sheffield City Council
- Nottinghamshire County Council
- Electricity North West
- Western Power Distribution
- Omya UK Limited
- Wacker Neuson Limited
- UK Power Networks
- Easement Solutions
- ESP Utilities
- Carlisle City Council
- Connections Legal Management
- Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
- SMB Group (Brooksby Melton College and Stephenson College)
- DCG (Derby College)
- Vattenfall Networks
- Milton Keynes Council
- South Staffordshire District Council
- Isle of Wight Council
- Tees Valley Combined Authority
- Leeds City Council
- Eurocell plc
- Foundry Top Co LLP
- Redrow Homes Limited
- Derbyshire County Council
- Burnley Borough Council
- Burnley Borough Council
- Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council
- Greater Manchester Pension Fund (Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council as administering authority)
- Warrington Borough Council
- Redditch Borough Council
- GF Tomlinson Limited
- South Staffordshire College
Work highlights
- Advised Clowes Developments (UK) Limited on a group record breaking multi-million pound deal with international investor, Hines, for the development of 1.15million square feet of high-quality logistics space in the East Midlands.
- Advised a motor retail group in the refinancing of their freehold and long leasehold properties in the region of £300 million.
- Advising Warrington Borough Council on the acquisition of a solar farm at Doncaster, building on previous acquisitions of solar farms at Hull, York and Cirencester.
Lawyers
Leading individuals
Geldards LLP
David leads the Nottingham property team and has extensive experience in a broad range of property transactional work. He acts for numerous regional commercial and residential property developers in relation to site assembly, development and disposal, and has been involved in a number of regionally important development projects. David manages the team’s lease renewal group, a multi-disciplinary team which provides a dedicated and highly cost-effective service, and which has generated significant cost savings for clients in recent years. Those clients include Boots UK Limited and associated companies (which have a portfolio of 3,000 plus properties) and the Eurocell group of companies. David also advises a number of local and regional investors in relation to portfolio acquisitions and disposals, and other portfolio management transactions.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Graham Banks, David Watson, Jamie Gordon