Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Real estate litigation and dispute resolution

Senior Associate, London

Matthew is a senior associate in our Real Estate Dispute Resolution team.

Matthew helps clients achieve their objectives in all areas of commercial property litigation, including contentious landlord and tenant work such as business lease renewals, trespass claims, break clause disputes, tenant arrears/insolvency, landlord consents, dilapidations claims, rent reviews and right to manage and service charge disputes.

He also has considerable experience of handling high-value property cases for clients that result in lengthy High Court, Court of Appeal and Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) trials. Matthew also encourages and regularly uses a broad range of alternative dispute resolution processes for his clients, including mediations and expert determinations.

Matthew works closely with the transactional real estate team and has wide experience acting on large-scale development matters, particularly in relation to rights of light, vacant possession strategies, and boundary and party wall issues. Matthew also advises on sale and purchase disputes and has an interest in leasehold reform, with extensive experience dealing with the nuances of mixed-use schemes.

Matthew is also a member of the PLA Law Reform Committee, which monitors new and proposed legislation, lobbies for change in the law where appropriate, responds to consultation papers and liaises with the Judiciary, the Court Service, the Law Commission and other groups such as the Property Bar Association and RICS.

He regularly produces articles and commentary pieces for our Development Notes blog, the Law Society and the Property Law Journal on various real estate and case law developments such as leasehold reform and rights of light/development issues.