Hale Saka

Hale advises pension fund landlords, commercial landlords and national tenant clients on a broad range of commercial property matters. She provides advice across the full lifecycle of property transactions, combining technical expertise with a practical understanding of the clients’ commercial objectives.

A significant part of Hale’s practice focuses on the asset management of commercial property portfolios. She advises both landlord and tenant clients on new leases, lease renewals, lease assignments, lease surrenders, licences to alter, licences to underlet, deed of variation and rent deposit arrangements.

She also pension fund landlords on the management of their investment assets and is the principal day-to-day contact for a national tenant client operating in the automotive sector in advising on the acquisition of leasehold interests in strategic locations to support the expansion of its business, together with all aspects of its leasehold property requirements.

Hale also has experience in dealing with commercial acquisitions and disposals, secured lending and refinancing transactions, residential disposals for commercial landlords.

Examples of Hale’s work include:

• Acting for a purchaser on the £1.87 million acquisition of a nursery, requiring successfully exchanging a conditional contract with a licence to occupy, enabling the purchaser to take occupation pending satisfaction of the conditions to completion.
• Acting for a developer client on the £1.84 million refinancing of a property within its portfolio, undertaking detailed title due diligence, satisfying lender requirements and coordinating the transaction through to successful completion.
• Acting for developer clients in connection with section 106 planning obligations, including the transfer of school sites and areas of public open space to local authorities as part of residential development schemes.