Philip Marsh

Philip deals with the full range of commercial property matters. He regularly advises on the sales and acquisitions of investment properties (both freehold and leasehold),  grating and entering into new leases and lease renewals, property management work (including licences to assign, sublet, and permit alterations), and the full range of strategic land matters including options, promotion agreements, collaboration agreements and other joint venture structures to deliver residential property developments.

Paul also advises on all the infrastructure agreements relating to the delivery of a residential development, including Section 278, Section 38, Section 104, and cable easements, including associated advice to deal with Land Registry applications to resolve titles issues.

Paul has acted for landed estates, Oxford Colleges, residential property developers, property trading companies, high-net-worth families and individual residents  in the UK, the UAE, and Hong Kong with commercial property portfolios in the UK.

Examples of Philip’s work include:

• Advising on a collaboration agreement for a 200-acre site, acting for one of four residential property developers.
• Acting on the purchase of a building to be re-developed for student accommodation, conditional on obtaining a satisfactory planning permission.
• Converting an existing option agreement into a hybrid option / promotion agreement for a 10-acre siteA for a landowner.
• Advising on the sale of a portfolio of gift card shops.
• Acting on the purchase of two adjacent tenanted commercial buildings (one long leasehold and one freehold), including providing advice relating to the expiry of the long leasehold interest and subsequent negotiation of a lease extension for the long lease.