Expertise

Stephen is a solicitor specialising in residential development, regularly acting for a number of the UK’s top housebuilders.

Stephen’s experience includes drafting agreements to support site acquisition and disposal, undertaking due diligence in preparation for site acquisition, acting on the disposal of units to affordable housing providers and negotiating and advising on a variety of complex and high value infrastructure agreements.

Experience

  1. Assisting on the disposal of a serviced parcel valued at circa £19.5m from a regeneration client to a top UK housebuilder.
  2. Undertaking due diligence for high value strategic development sites for a number of the UK’s top housebuilders.
  3. Negotiating and advising on a complex Section 38 Agreement centring on the ad medium filum rule and the legal opinion of Queen’s Counsel.
  4. Advising a consortium of housebuilders on a wide range of infrastructure agreements across a large and high value development site in Warwickshire.
  5. Advising a top UK housebuilder on the disposal of phased units to an affordable housing provider.