Kevin George

Kevin regularly deals with Option Agreements for both residential and retail development.

He has considerable expertise dealing with renewable projects including the Option Agreements for solar farms acting for both Developer and the Landlord which has included also negotiating the Lease and Direct Agreements in relation to those projects.

Kevin is particularly skilled in drafting complex Overage provisions.

He has dealt with voluntary registrations of Country Estates and acts for several Country Estates, handling all associated property work.

He handles a variety of purchases and sales of businesses as well as farms and commercial properties.

He regularly acts for a number of Landlords who own industrial estates in respect of the grant of leases, renewal and assignments.

Notable Commercial Property cases

• Renewable Energy
  

  Acting for a landowner in the grant of an option for lease to a solar energy company, the option is contingent on the grant of permission to create a solar park.

• Farm Business Tenancy
  

  The Agreement to Surrender a Farm Business Tenancy in connection with the grant of planning permission and transfer of plot, including rights of pre-emption and Overage. This transaction required bespoke drafting of the documentation as the process is so unusual.

• Sale of Industrial Estate
  

  Dealing with the sale of an industrial estate comprising 15 units. The transaction was complicated due to fact that the units were all individually leased on a variety of terms and lengths of occupation and rent payments.

• Auction Sales
  

  Acting for a client in the preparation of an auction bundle for a plot with planning permission granted, with work started.

  The preparation of the auction package was complicated due to the sale of the adjoining property not being registered with rights that affected the auction plot.

• Voluntary Registrations
  

  Dealing with the voluntary registration of a number of parcels of land for one client where the deeds have been lost.

• Purchase of Commercial Property
  

  Acting, jointly with our Corporate and Commercial team, in an Asset Purchase Agreement of a public house. This involved taking an assignment of the lease and the purchase of all the appropriate assets. There were strict timelines to adhere to in this transaction.

• Purchase of Hotel
  

  Purchase of hotel to be converted into apartments. Preparing draft contracts and leases in respect of the sale of the apartments.

• Purchase of Land
  

  This was complex as the landowner had made several different sales of the adjoining land without reserving and granting the appropriate rights. To rectify this, we had to deal with a variety of Deeds of grant to regularise the position. The deal also included an overage provision.

• Lease of Lake
  

  We acted in this very unusual transaction where the lease was to be granted over a lake where accommodation pods were going to be constructed over a period of time for holiday purposes.

  Complex drafting was needed for the calculations of rent as the payments will be scaled in line with the number of units being let.