Expertise

Chris is a Legal Director in the Real Estate department having qualified in October 2014. 

Chris has experience helping clients with a variety of real estate matters acting for institutional landlords and other clients with large property portfolios. Chris also works with a range of clients on a wide breadth of matters including landlord and tenant clients, developers, large investment funds, and public bodies. 

Recent experience includes assisting on high-value development schemes including the development of the large scale mixed use and manufacturing/logistics Omega Warrington site for Miller Developments/Omega Warrington Limited. 

• Acting for Omega Warrington Limited in respect of the manufacturing, logistics, residential and mixed use development project at Omega Warrington delivering transactions including the recently completed 757,000 sq ft speculative scheme of 4 warehouses forward funded by Mountpark Logistics and the sale of three residential plots facilitating the development of circa 700 dwellings;
• Acting for WBC Birchwood Park, a mixed use estate with over 160 tenants leading on complex or high value transactions including the letting of 106 Dalton Avenue to Cavendish Nuclear Limited for a 15 year term at an initial annual rent of circa £800,000, lettings at Chadwick House to Nuvia for a term of 10 years at an initial rent of circa £500,000 and the pre-let development of 712 Cavendish Avenue to Werfen Limited for a 15 year term at an initial annual rent of circa £125,000;
• Acting for Network Rail on the sale of part of its Commercial Estate portfolio as part of a portfolio sale, as well as other development sales for Network Rail to facilitate additional residential development across the Greater London area as well as acting for Network Rail on other estate management real estate matters across its Eastern Region.