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Ms Tamsin Simmonds

023 8048 2139 tamsin.simmonds@parissmith.co.uk View profile View profile

Work Department

Property

Position

Senior Associate

Career

I am a Senior Associate in the Commercial Property team.  My main areas of expertise include:

• pre-let agreements & leases;
• general non-contentious landlord and tenant work;
• institutional & mezzanine funding;
• section 106 agreement reviews;
• option agreements;
• sales & acquisitions;
• corporate support in share sales and purchases; and
• portfolio management.

Examples of my work include:

• acting for developer/owner of major new shopping centre and town centre development with mixed use residential and restaurant use;
• cinema and retail units including letting to major anchor tenant, providing construction warranties, dealing with the pre-lets of all units, developing precedent documents for use throughout the scheme and on-going legal management of the scheme;
• purchase and financing of £15m leisure park and pre-lets and lets off;
• £150m refinancing of major town centre development with other high street properties within the portfolio;
• purchase of £20m portfolio of former high street banks with management of portfolio to include sales off, lets and pre-lets and refinance;
• purchase, sales and refinancing of portfolios across the country for major provider of supported living to include drafting of care operator nomination agreements;
• acting for developer client in purchase, subsale and leaseback then short term commercial lettings, including arranging institutional and mezzanine finance and refinancing within portfolios;
• acting for management company of public park in negotiating and agreeing leases and providing general support and advice; and
• acting for owner of mixed use retail and office space with total rent roll of over £500k to include surrender of existing leases then pre-lets to tenants including large coffee chain to include initial set up of lease documents following major refurbishment.

I qualified as a solicitor in 2004 and throughout my career have worked at various well known national and London firms. I am highly regarded by my clients and will go the extra mile to get a job done. I enjoy working with clients on large portfolio acquisitions with the ensuing sale off and letting work with on-going property management aspects. I have a strong corporate social responsibility background and have previously acted for clients in the charity and education sector both in offering legal support as well as being chair of trustees of a charity foundation.