Unbeatable Experience, Empowering Approach

Focused on real estate litigation Unbeatable experience, empowering approach

What we do for our clients Our expertise The Eversheds Real Estate Litigation team is one of largest • Adverse possession claims and most experienced in the UK. We provide creative • Agriculture solutions to all property-related problems, acting for • Development agreement disputes institutional landlords, tenants and real estate developers. • Ending the lease: statutory notices, opposing lease More importantly we will help you avoid these problems renewals, break clauses, surrender, and forfeiture in the ﬁrst place. • Enforcement of easements • Enforcement of option agreements We organise around our clients; accessible in London but • Enforcement of restrictive covenants with broad coverage across the UK and internationally. • Enforcing leasehold covenants: arrears, rights to assign We have unbeatable market knowledge by keeping close and/or sublet and/or make alterations, rights of entry to our clients and the key commercial players, and using to effect repairs, breach of user, dilapidations a networked approach that ensures this knowledge is • Eviction of protestors, squatters and trespassers managed and transferred. • Party walls • Professional negligence: solicitors; valuers; surveyors Where possible we employ the strategic use of ADR and • Property related equality/disability discrimination mediation. Established links with leading experts (Counsel, advice: access to services, reasonable adjustments rating experts and surveyors) can offer preferential rates and statutory questionnaires and allow us to test ideas. • Rating appeals • Rent reviews Innovation in our sector • Rights to light • Telecommunications All our work is a managed approach through our unique and award winning ‘RAPID Resolution’ methodology. Independent comment RAPID enables us to give you an early guide to the merits and risks of any dispute. We think laterally and creatively, “Eversheds understands our business. I would highly and advise on the best practical and commercial routes recommend them as a key business partner.” available to you. Phones4U

You can control your costs both with RAPID and our “A close-knit team which has given us great advice on ‘Driving Down Costs’ workshops where we will help you everything from the routine to the highly novel and complex.” identify where a reinvigorated proactive management Wolseley Plc approach can pay dividends. An innovative approach to pricing includes an extensive range of ﬁxed fees. “We wanted lawyers who knew where we wanted to go and simply got us there. And they achieved that.” HSBC

“We ended up with more than we could ever have hoped for. It was a storming result.” Safestore Ltd Focused on real estate litigation

Did you know?

1 We have the largest real estate litigation team in the UK: nine partners; sixty lawyers; boasting one of the UK’s few English/Scottish dual-qualiﬁed real estate litigation lawyers and a full time specialist practice support lawyer. The team have built up a specialist knowledge which is unrivalled.

2 Our wealth of experience includes acting for both landlords and tenants in disputes, speciﬁcally in the UK’s leading rating dispute case.

3 We make the law – we win high proﬁle cases at the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and in other tribunals with reported leading cases every month. Our cases often lead the debate on current issues and our comments are sought and articles written in The Lawyer, Property Week and Estates Gazette.

4 We have extensive sector and international experience demonstrated by our work for Asda/Walmart, O2, AXA, Comet, Defra, EDF, Faurecia Group, Hammerson, Homes and Communities Agency, HSBC, Instore/Poundstretcher, JD Sports, Land Securities, Legal and General, Lloyds Banking Group, Mitchells and Butler, National Grid, Network Rail, NEXT, Segro, Taylor Wimpey and Tradegro UK Limited.

5 We work on high proﬁle developments on a range of issues including the Shard of Glass for a major Qatari investor, Shaftesbury in substantial litigation connected with its various development projects and acting for the Olympic Park legacy vehicle in a large number of disputes and development agreements relating to key relocations as well as on easements and rights. We are also acting on the enforcement of the ‘AGA’ against the defunct ﬁrm Halliwells.

6 We have surveyed our clients independently through Acuigen and received feedback on over 300 cases. 97% of our clients would recommend Eversheds for litigation work.

For further information, please contact:

Paul Moorcroft Partner, Head of Real Estate Litigation Direct: +44 845 497 1277 Main: +44 845 497 9797 [email protected]

www.eversheds.com