England - West Midlands • Real estate
Shakespeare Martineau LLP
Shakespeare Martineau LLP’s particular area of expertise involves handling strategic land acquisitions and disposals, including due diligence on transactions and long-term joint ventures and the firm routinely operates in the industrial distribution, office, retail, and leisure sectors. Operating across the firm’s Birmingham, Stratford and Solihull offices, regional head Joanna Deffley’s key strength lies in strategic land development, with the capability to advise on large-scale projects, while Solihill’s Neil Gosling notably focuses on delivering housing, regeneration and new town projects. Stratford’s Caroline Irvine advises clients on the granting and acquiring of leases, among various other matters, while Solihull-based Kevin Joynes is well versed in acquisitions and disposals of land for house builders and developers.
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Key clients
- Barratt Homes
- David Wilson South Midlands
- Deeside Regeneration Limited
- Farmfoods
- Gallagher Developments
- Hillwood Group
- Jessup Group
- Kendrick Homes
- L&Q Estates
- Opus Land
- Trebor Developments LLP
- Vision Express
- Real Estate Investor Plc
- Lovell Partnerships Limited
- Northern Trust
- Spitfire Bespoke Homes
- IM Land
- IM Property
- Burrington Estates
- Hampton Oak
- Richborough Estates Group Limited
- Orbit Group Limited
- Orbit Homes (2020) Limited
- Persimmon
- Hopkins Homes
- Vistry Homes Limited
- EMH Housing and Regeneration Limited
- The Strategic Land Group Limited
- Inox Capital Group Limited
- Airparks Services Limited (Holiday Extras)
- LIV Student Living Limited
- Pari Real Estate Limited
Work highlights
- Acted for Spitfire and IM Properties Plc on Spitfire’s award-winning Insider Midlands ‘Deal of the Year’ 2022 acquisition in partnership with Crest Nicholson of a 50-hectare development site at Daventry for 1100 new homes, including two hectares of public open space, a new primary school, bursary and community building, together with food retail and three further retail units.
- Acting for L&Q Estates on delivery of its scheme at Whitehouse, Milton Keynes. We have advised L&Q on its collaboration agreement with its development partner, Milton Keynes Council and provided ongoing advice during the strategic land promotion of the site, obtaining planning, provision of infrastructure to the site and sale of serviced land parcels to house builders.
- Advised L&Q on the sale of part of Wixams Village 3 in Bedfordshire which comprises roughly 127 acres and three phases to Barratt Homes. The deal structure incorporates two put and call options relating to phases 2 and 3 and a deferred payment in relation to phase 3 to be secured by a charge.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Alex Smith