Hilary Boothroyd

With 19 years’ experience, Hiliary advises across a range of real estate matters, with particular expertise in the mines and minerals and agricultural sectors.

Working with clients ranging from landlords and landowners to tenants and operators, Hiliary’s expertise spans high-value real estate acquisitions and disposals (including portfolios of properties), development projects including prospecting licences and options, mineral leases (including tipping and restoration matters), ownership of mines and minerals, concrete and bagging plant leases, conditional sale contracts, site assembly matters (including restrictive covenants and easements), overage agreements and, landlord and tenant matters and property due diligence on company sales and restructures.

Examples of Hiliary’s work include:

• Advising one of the UK’s top mineral operators on a prospecting licence and option agreement for a greenfield mineral site, including a restoration bond, bagging plant and ‘enhanced’ aftercare licence.
• Supporting dual corporate asset and share sales involving a portfolio of farms for a total of circa £57,000,000.
• Securing agreement for the release of a restrictive covenant prohibiting the extraction of mineral on behalf of the landowner of a golf course, enabling the consequent progression of a pre-existing option transaction with a top-five mineral operator.
• Securing a substantial extension of quarry operations for one of the UK’s top mineral operators, involving multiple landowners, prospecting licences and options, leases (in tranches), foreign mineral wayleaves, variation, lease by reference, surrender, and easement work.