Specialism & 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, restructuring and refinancing
- Property finance
Client stories & examples of work
- Acting for a manufacturer on leasehold acquisition and relocation to a new purpose built single-site UK facility at Kimpton Industrial Estate in Sutton, one of the first buildings to be awarded a BREEAM Excellent rating
- Acting for an insurance group on leasehold acquisition of HQ office space within landmark art deco style building One America Square in the City of London, and other regional offices
- Acting for a telecoms company on leasehold acquisition of HQ office space at Crossways Business Park in Kent Thameside. This transaction ranked amongst the top 6 business park office lettings in Kent during 2014, as reported in that year’s Kent Property Market Review
- Acting for a global Top 150 PR agency on leasehold acquisition of its London HQ at Angel Corner House in Islington
- Acting for the owner of the famous London music shop Foote’s on leasehold acquisition of newly refurbished retail premises in Bloomsbury
- Acting for The Chatham Maritime Trust, a special purpose trust responsible for the long term management of a 350 acre mixed use urban regeneration site in Kent, on general portfolio management matters
Types of client
- Commercial property investors, both corporate and individual
- Landlords and tenants of commercial property, both corporate and individual
- Owner-occupier businesses
Achievements & other appointments
- Listed as a ‘Rising Star’ in Super Lawyers London 2013, under his primary area of practice ‘Commercial Property’
- External governor at North Kent College
- Commercial Real Estate Legal Association (CRELA) member
Profile
Alex was admitted as a solicitor in 2003 and joined Thomson Snell & Passmore in 2011 from Speechly Bircham LLP (now Charles Russell Speechlys LLP) where he had also trained.
