Bio
Fran is a Mines & Minerals Partner.
Fran supports businesses and landowners across a wide range of complex commercial property transactions and disputes.
She has expertise in landlord and tenant and mines and minerals matters, and has more than 25 years’ experience working with corporate clients in the hospitality and minerals sectors.
In the hospitality sector, Fran has worked with national pub operators across a range of property portfolio management issues, including leases and lease re-gears, rent review, dilapidations, restructuring and insolvency, re-financing and freehold and leasehold disputes.
Within the mines and minerals sector, Fran has acted for both large-scale minerals operators and individual landowners, dealing with numerous aspects of minerals development including options and leases, added value operations, manorial mineral rights and the disposal of land following minerals development
Examples of Fran’s work include:
- Protecting clients’ commercial interests through strategic use of forfeiture proceedings.
- Working with specialist planning consultants to defeat applications for development which were prejudicial to the client’s commercial operations.
- Leveraging collaboration with specialist consultants to drive better commercial outcomes for the client in relation to utilities access arrangements.
- Optimising outcomes for the client in relation to guarantee claims.
- Working closely with clients and expert rent review surveyors to investigate and undermine attempts by landlords to significantly increase passing rents.