Bio
Jeremy is a Real Estate Disputes Partner.
Jeremy works with lenders, landowners, investment clients, developers, retailers and utilities companies on all contentious aspects of commercial property, with particular expertise in supporting property asset management.
His specialisms include commercial landlord and tenant disputes; lease renewals and termination strategies; dilapidations claims; possession proceedings and trespass; easements, rights of way and restrictive covenants; development disputes and overage issues; boundary and title disputes; expert determination and arbitration of contested rent reviews; arrears recovery; and service charges.
Jeremy is also experienced in disputes arising out of neighbouring developments (with particular expertise in dealing with rights to light), alongside advising lenders on contentious issues relating to their security over property. He also delivers training to clients across a range of topics including the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, dilapidations, service charges and rent reviews.
Examples of Jeremy’s work include:
- Acting for two private investment funds in relation to two disputed commercial rent reviews.
- Acting for a large local authority in connection with litigation arising from a long-running and contentious lease renewal.
- Successfully coordinating multi-jurisdictional litigation for a foreign bank in the UK, Portugal and USA to mitigate losses due to bank fraud carried out by a former bank customer.
- Formulating effective strategy for right to light and building oversail issues for a leisure operator’s flagship hotel developments.
- Successfully coordinating all contentious property asset management work for a local authority’s pension fund, including lease renewals, arrears recovery and rent reviews.
- Achieving a successful outcome for a property investment company in the contested rent review on a high-profile commercial building.