Bio
Sean is a Commercial Real Estate Partner.
With more than 35 years’ experience, Sean specialises in commercial real estate matters, with particular expertise in site assembly, pre-let agreements for lease, non-contentious construction and ancillary documentation, development funding arrangements, and forward-sale transactions.
His expertise spans the acquisition of development sites, investment property, and commercial property; disposals of various types of commercial property; portfolio management of investment property; landlord and tenant arrangements and documentation; and secured lending transactions.
Shaun works with investors, developers and end-users (including high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, SMEs, and large private companies), across a broad spectrum of sectors including leisure, retail – with experience supporting a range of projects retail and leisure parks, business parks, hotels, industrial units, mixed-use schemes (including regeneration projects), and sites developed for use in the provision of special educational needs.
Examples of Sean’s work include:
- Acting for a purchaser and end user of an existing commercial property for a purchase price of £5 million.
- Acting for the purchaser of an end-user of an existing commercial long-leasehold property for a purchase price of £1.2 million.
- Acting for a tenant in respect of the grant of a lease for educational use at a rental of £400,000 per anum.
- Acting for a purchaser of an existing industrial site comprising multiple titles (both freehold and long-leasehold) for a purchase price of £1.1 million.
- Acting for a leading contractor in the purchase and supply of wood and waste for recovery, recycling, and renewable energy client on the grant of leases for two sites at rents of £200,000 and £600,000 per anum.
- Acting for a commercial client in respect of the proposed sale of land for residential purposes for an anticipated purchase price of £3 million, subject to planning.
- Acting for a national housebuilder in respect of the negotiation of a complex option agreement over a large, six-acre development site.