Howes Percival LLP

Commercial Property

Will is a Partner in the Commercial Property team specialising in development projects where he acts for developers (including well-known regional and national house builders), landowners and promoters on residential and commercial developments.

Will’s expertise encompasses site acquisitions and disposals, strategic land agreements, landowner and developer collaboration agreements, overage deeds, buy-back arrangements and pre-emption deeds. He is known for having a pragmatic and collaborative approach to his advice and to his approach to transactions more generally.

Recent work examples include:

- Acting for a consortium of landowners on a largescale joint promotion venture for primarily residential development.
- Acting for a regional housing association on the acquisition of a site for affordable housing from multiple landowners on a ‘site assembly’ basis.
- Acting for a landowner granting an option to a household supermarket operator for the development of a new supermarket and small business park.

• 2026 - Present: Partner, Howes Percival LLP
• 2024 - 2026: Director, Howes Percival LLP
• 2022 - 2024: Senior Associate, Howes Percival LLP
• 2019 - 2022: Associate, Howes Percival LLP
• 2017 - 2019: Trainee Solicitor, Clapham & Collinge LLP
• 2016 - 2017: Legal Practice Course, BBP Cambridge
• 2015 - 2017: Paralegal, Clapham & Collinge LLP

• 2012 - 2015: Law (LLB), University of East Anglia