Hospitality & Leisure
Katherine Watts
Katherine is a Consultant in the commercial real estate team at Maples Teesdale. Katherine has extensive experience of leisure and hotel acquisitions, disposals and lettings, shopping centre acquisitions, disposals and lettings, forward funding and development of student accommodation as well as advising corporate owners/occupiers.
Adam Bernstein
Adam is a Partner in Maples Teesdale's commercial real estate team and heads up the hospitality and leisure sector team with a broad range of experience of investment and active management of office, retail, industrial parks and shopping centres. He advises a varied client base consisting of a number of household names in the leisure and hospitality sector on their real estate growth and asset management requirements as well as specialising in providing legal advice to some of the most exciting new brands from the UK and overseas who are wanting to enter the sector. He also has extensive experience of all types of capital transactions.
Anna McDowell
Anna is an Associate in Maples Teesdale’s commercial real estate team. Anna has experience and has assisted on sales and purchases of various types of properties including offices, shopping centres and development land. Anna also has experience in property management, landlord and tenant work and secured lending for retail and office sector clients. Anna has experience in strategic land projects.
Claire Munn
Claire is a Senior Associate in the dispute resolution team with experience in landlord and tenant matters, advising landlords and tenants in relation to lease renewals under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, advising on dilapidations, breaks and forfeiture and advising developers and landowners in relation to rights of light.
Clare Sivill
Clare is a Senior Associate in the commercial real estate team with experience in non-contentious commercial property work including acquisitions and disposals, lettings acting for both landlords and tenants, property development advising developers, landowners and occupiers as well as property management work. Clare also advises on strategic land projects.
Eleanor Crawford-Drake
Ellie is a corporate real estate Partner with experience in a broad range of transactions covering a number of jurisdictions and including the use of W&I insurance, various purchase price adjustments and tickets reaching $300m. She has significant experience in corporate acquisitions and disposals, ranging from single asset to multi-company portfolio transactions, establishing and managing joint ventures, acting for minority or majority shareholder investors and company management and restructuring.
Helen Kearns
Helen is a Senior Associate in the commercial real estate team with experience in all areas of commercial property work including asset management work acting for both landlords and occupiers, advising on acquisitions and disposals for retail, offices, and industrial sector clients and has experience advising a number of lenders and borrowers on real estate finance transactions.
Joanna Preece
Joanna is a partner in the construction team and has significant experience advising a wide range of clients on large development schemes, acquisitions and disposals, lettings and financings. She is a specialist in non-contentious construction documents, with significant experience across the full suite of construction documents. She has experience in major redevelopments and full refurbishments and construction aspects of investment transactions, across all real estate investment sectors and is equally comfortable advising clients with less experience throughout the whole development process. Jo has a detailed knowledge of working and liaising with clients and understanding their commercial requirements having completed a number of legal secondments to her clients throughout her career. Jo helps to lead the Maples Teesdale’s ESG Committee and has been participating in workshops looking at climate clauses run by The Chancery Lane Project, a group that brings lawyers from around the world together to collaborate to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change in the built environment.
Lucy Owen-Jones
Lucy is an Associate in the commercial real estate team at Maples Teesdale. Lucy has experience acting for a wide range of UK-based clients on non-contentious commercial property work, including acquisitions and disposals, landlord and tenant and real estate finance.
Rosalind Cullis
Rosalind is a Partner in our Real Estate Disputes team. She has acted for a wide range of both landlord and tenant clients including institutional landlords, asset managers, retail and office tenants as well as HNW and high profile individuals. Her expertise covers primarily commercial property disputes but she also has experience of some areas of residential property as well as construction disputes. She has also written many articles for the legal and property press.
Samuel Tatnell
Samuel is a trainee in the commercial real estate team. He provides support to the team with various tasks including legal research, the preparation and reviewing of legal documents, the management of deeds and client extranets.
Yvonne Hamboulla
Yvonne is a trainee in the commercial real estate team. She provides support to the team with various tasks including legal research, the preparation and reviewing of legal documents, the management of deeds and client extranets.
Deals
- Hili Coffee House – We have advised Hili Coffee on a number of retail lettings for their coffee shops Arabica. They have 110 stores in 18 countries.
- MW Restaurants – We advised “M” restaurant in relation to their flagship first restaurant in Threadneedle Walk, City comprising circa 12,000 sq ft and their second restaurant and vintners in LandSec’s Zig Zag development in Victoria comprising circa 8,000 sq ft.
- Cineworld Cinemas – We advise Cine UK on their cinemas throughout England and Wales.
Team Services
We offer a complete service and can guide occupiers through the process – starting with agreeing effective heads of terms and ending with fit-out and occupation itself.
Our advice is commercial, and we understand that the key issues in taking space can often be practical in nature, for example agreeing the signage rights, obtaining consent to fit-out and ensuring there is adequate plant and riser space for a tenant’s use. We are experienced in dealing with these issues as well as the more technical legal negotiation.
Our ultimate aim is to assist occupier clients in managing their ‘space needs’ in a way that minimises business interruption. We are used to acting within tight timeframes if required. We are also happy to take on long projects which might involve planning for a client’s future needs.
Once in occupation we are able to assist with the ongoing management work, including assisting with the negotiation of renewals or the exercise of breaks.