Patrick specialises in many aspects of commercial property with particular expertise in commercial landlord and tenant, freehold acquisitions and disposals, developing out sites and all aspects of property portfolio management. He deals with a variety of complex commercial transactions including conditional contracts and options, sales and leasebacks, corporate support transactions and secured lending.
Patrick deals primarily with industrial/warehouse sites and office blocks and his clients include landlords and tenants, property investors and occupiers, developers, banks and pension funds. Whilst Patrick has a very strong landlord following he also acts for tenants on some of the most prominent business and industrial parks in the UK. Patrick also acts for one of the major Oxford University institutions on its property portfolio management and acquisitions of office and warehouse accomodation.
Patrick is always keen to add value when the opportunity arises and to become involved in strategic and commercial decisions early in the negotiation stage of transactions.
Some examples of Patrick’s recent experience are:
- Acting for landlords on general portfolio management issues such as lease renewals, termination notices, negotiating new leases, licences to assign/alter/change use, variations, surrenders, rent deposits, rent reviews and advising on dilapidation issues. Patrick also acts for many tenants on their own property portfolios.
- Acting for investors on acquisition of multi-let office industrial and retail units.
- Complex disposals and leasebacks for sellers requiring capital and also disposals and leasebacks involving Heritage Fund grants and SIPPs.
- Secured lending for banks and also acting for landlords on corporate refinancing of commercial property portfolios including a recent refinance of 30 industrial units over four sites.
- Corporate support experience including the full suite of due diligence work on corporate acquisitions and disposals.
Patrick trained at Rawlinson and Butler and qualified in 1998. He joined Henmans that year and was promoted to partner in 2007.