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John Kiff
Work Department
Residential Development
Position
John is a specialist residential development lawyer with a broad range of experience acting for national housebuilders, regional developers, public-private joint ventures and promoters. He also has blue-chip in-house experience with Barclays and has taught law professionally.
John currently advises 12 of the top 25 UK housebuilders on acquisition work, disposals and policy issues such as leasehold reform. In particular, John is a leading lawyer in the North of England for complex site assembly and strategic land acquisition work, multi-party collaborations for immediate land and in relation to PRS disposals for his national housebuilder clients.
Career
Qualified in 2003 at Nabarro, London
2006-2012: Addleshaw Goddard, London and Leeds
2012-2013: Freelance legal consultant for BPP Law School and Addleshaw Goddard
2013 – present: Gateley plc
Education
University of Sheffield LLB, 1999; LPC at University of Sheffield, 2000.
Leisure
Family (two young daughters); various sports (tennis, cricket) and hillwalking when time allows.
Lawyer Rankings
Yorkshire and the Humber > Real estate > Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
(Next Generation Partners)Gateley Legal maintains both an active commercial real estate group and a distinct specialist residential development team, with both teams forming a practice that is capable of advising on the full spectrum of property matters. The team particularly excels in advising developers and investors, which instruct the team on financings, acquisitions, lettings and disposals in the context of major development and regeneration schemes. The commercial real estate team encompasses highly recommended partners James Sargent and Barbara Rollin. The development team, meanwhile, is led by John Kiff, a key contact for residential projects who oversees the development work of key contacts Keelie Evans and George Parker-Fuller. Philip Gregory left the team in May 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners Yorkshire and the Humber > Real estate > Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire Yorkshire and the Humber > Real estate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Real estate > Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Real estate > Environment
- Employment > Health and safety
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Employment > Employment: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire