Jack Kelly

Partner

Gateley Legal

Jack Kelly

Expertise

Jack is a specialist in residential development whose work covers both immediate land acquisition and strategic land development. Jack acts for landowners, land promoters and housebuilders on a broad range of matters, including option agreements, conditional and unconditional contracts, promotion agreements, hybrid agreements, collaboration agreements and overage agreements. Jack also has extensive experience advising housebuilders in connection with disposals to registered providers.

How do you help clients

I help my clients by getting to know their business and their commercial drivers. I seek to protect my client’s position while working efficiently and collaboratively with all parties to get deals done in the timescales required.

My aim when acting for my clients is to be seen as their ‘trusted adviser’ and an extension of their business, adding value on each transaction by identifying potential issues early and seeking timely solutions that work for them. 

Experience

  1. Leading on the acquisition of a large serviced land parcel comprising part of a £100m development scheme, with extensive documentation between numerous parties involving sub-sale arrangements, collaboration agreements, land and build agreements and escrow arrangements. 
  2. Advising a land promoter in respect of the exchange of a high value option agreement (including uplift and overage provisions linked to future sale values) in connection with a prospective data centre site with an anticipated gross development value exceeding £2bn. 
  3. Acting on behalf of a land promoter regarding the promotion of a development scheme with consent for the delivery of more than 800 units.
  4. Acting for a national housebuilder in respect of a large affordable housing disposal (a record receipt for the top 10 housebuilder) that involved an ‘umbrella agreement’ arrangement, dealing with large phase drawdown, overage payments and complex charging arrangements.
  5. Acting for a housebuilder in respect of a conditional on planning contract for the acquisition of land, including the provision of new football club facilities on adjoining land, escrow arrangements, a building lease and phased drawdown linked to completion of the football club works.