Alex Lewsley

Senior Associate

Specialisms and expertise

• Acquisitions and disposals of freehold and leasehold commercial property, including portfolios, for investment, development and/or owner-occupation.
• Commercial landlord and tenant work. 
• Commercial property aspects of corporate acquisitions and sales, restructurings and refinancings. 
• Property finance.

Past and present projects

• Acting for a Central London REIT with a mixed retail, light industrial and office portfolio in excess of £2.5 billion on acquisitions, disposals, developments, lettings and general portfolio management matters.
• Acting for a corporate trust owned group of companies with a retail and office portfolio in South London consisting of about 110 properties with a combined value of £50 million on lettings and general portfolio management matters, and on the acquisition of their Head Office in Epsom. 
• Acting for a construction industry consultancy on their Head Office in Central London, and the letting of surplus space both there and in their previous head office for investment purposes.
• Acting for various hedge funds on their own occupational needs in Central London and the Home Counties. 
• Acting for various freeholder residents companies on development agreements with developers in connection with penthouse extensions to existing apartment blocks in Central London.

Types of client

• Commercial property investors, both corporate and individual.
• Landlords and tenants of commercial property, both corporate and individual.
• Owner-occupier businesses.
• Freeholder residents companies.
• Developers, both of commercial and residential property.

Achievements and other appointments

Alex is a member of the Commercial Real Estate Legal Association.

Profile

Alex was admitted as a solicitor in 2003 and joined Thomson Snell & Passmore in 2011 from Speechly Bircham LLP where he also trained.