HOW WE CAN HELP WITH BUYING AND SELLING PROPERTY
Our experienced team provides specialist legal advice across a wide range of property types, including residential and commercial developments, investment properties, retail and leisure outlets, warehouses, factories, and sports and recreational facilities.
We also offer full support from our property disputes team, providing expert guidance on contentious property matters, dispute resolution, and legal challenges to ensure your interests are protected at every stage.
OUR LEGAL TEAM ARE HERE TO ADVISE ON EVERYTHING BUYING & SELLING PROPERTY
For some clients, property is their business; for others, it’s about finding premises that fit their operational needs. Either way, we provide proactive, pragmatic legal advice to help you make the right decisions.
Whether you’re buying land for development, taking a lease, or investing in a property portfolio, real estate transactions can be complex. Our experienced team is on hand to guide, advise, and support you at every stage, ensuring smooth, successful outcomes.
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Whether you occupy one site or multiple locations, we help you optimise your property portfolio to support your needs. Our experienced team provides tailored property solutions, even in ambitious or time sensitive matters, ensuring your property works efficiently for your business.
We know that legal terms can be confusing and that your focus is on running your business. That’s why we make complex property processes simple, clear, and straightforward.
With experience acting for both tenants and landlords, we understand the challenges from every perspective. We can assist with:
- Leases and transfers for property acquisitions, whether it’s your first property or part of a growing portfolio
- Licence to alter agreements to obtain landlord consent for refurbishments or operational changes
- Lease extensions for long-term contracts, such as supplying distribution services to major retailers
- Granting or selling leases when properties no longer meet your business requirements
We provide expert legal advice on all types of hospitality and leisure licences, including temporary events licences, new premises licences, and licence compliance. We ensure your applications are accurate, compliant, and structured to limit objections while allowing your business to operate smoothly.
We also assist with licence transfers, DPS changes, and licensing provisions in property transactions, helping you avoid delays and protect your business. If challenges arise, our team provides practical guidance to resolve issues and maintain your licence on acceptable terms.
Our specialist lawyers deal with all aspects of construction, engineering and development work, ranging from small residential schemes to major commercial developments and infrastructure projects.
We advise on both non-contentious and contentious matters and, as well as acting on stand-alone construction projects, we work closely with colleagues in our Real Estate, Corporate and Banking teams to provide construction advice as part of larger corporate or real estate transactions.
Our non-contentious services include advising on procurement arrangements and all forms of contract including all the usual ones with the acronyms like JCT, NEC, ICC, FIDIC, CIOB, ICE, I Chem E, GC Works and PPC2000. We negotiate building and engineering contracts, performance, payment and retention bonds, collateral warranties, from both sides of the fence and we naturally get involved in the construction aspects of development and funding agreements which our development team deal with. We also cover EPC and power purchase agreements in our repertoire!
On the contentious side, we can deal with payment disputes, put simply where you’ve done the work and they just won’t pay, or delay and disruption claims where you’re frustrated and inconvenienced by a missed deadline.
Where things go awry, we help resolve disputes via a number of avenues, through adjudication, expert determination, arbitration or mediation, or, if it comes to it, through the County Court and the Technology and Construction Court, depending on how it needs to be taken.
We advise on the acquisition, disposal, and management of offices, retail, leisure, and industrial properties. Whether investing in a single asset or a large portfolio, we provide practical, commercially focused legal advice at every stage.
We work with private and institutional investors, supporting acquisitions, property management, and disposals to achieve the best possible outcomes for your investment.
Our planning team advises on all aspects of development, from householder applications to large regeneration projects, including environmental compliance.
We represent developers, landowners, applicants, mortgagees, and local authorities in planning appeals, listed building and conservation matters, and enforcement actions, providing practical, commercially focused legal advice.
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Keys were collected yesterday so our contractors are already here starting their works this morning. Thank you so much for all your help with getting to this point, it’s been a long road from when we initially started but your support and advice has been immeasurable.
We have known Terence Ritchie for more than 20 years and have always relied upon his specialist advice on all matters connected with Real Estate funding. We have broadened our engagement with genuine experts in their field at EMW Law LLP including Sean Halliwell (Banking) and Marco Mauro (Planning). Most of all, Terence and his team are a pleasure to work with and we strongly recommend their services to Clients, Specialist Lenders and Banks involved in Real Estate transactions.
“I have been using EMW Law for almost two years, for a variety of work. During that time, I have found that the service provided by the company is consistently faultless. Last year, I needed to raise some finance on a rental property, which for various reasons proved very complicated and took some months to complete. However, I found that at all times, the staff were on the ball and indeed ahead of the game, and responded quickly to all the numerous changes of document requirements, information, explanations and communications between all the parties involved. I would have no hesitation to recommend EMW Law as my go-to provider for all my legal requirements.”
Batuhan and his team provided commercial input together with a fast and efficient service allowing us to complete within a very tight deadline
Having supported us through the buy-out process in 2014 and remained our go to lawyers since, EMW were the obvious choice to support the Springboard shareholders through the exit process. We certainly made the right choice. EMW are responsive, collaborative and pragmatic, always achieving the right balance between representing our best interests and delivering on our wish for the transaction to proceed to close as quickly as possible. I couldn’t be more satisfied with the outcome and the quality of service that EMW provided.
EMW’s assistance in this important strategic transaction for us has been superb.
Working with the team at EMW on two recent commercial property acquisitions has been a very reassuring experience for us. Especially their expertise and professionalism in dealing with detailed seller’s special terms and lease provisions.
EMW has provided the company with sage and astute advice for many years and was the only firm we considered using when approached to sell our business. EMW provided us with invaluable support and guidance throughout the transaction process and we cannot praise them enough. Drawing on years of experience, the team’s advice was both wise and pragmatic which helped us overcome challenges and enabled us to complete the complex business sale in a timely manner.
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