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Keystone Law Offices
48 CHANCERY LANE
LONDON
WC2A 1JF
England
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Valerie Mitchell
Work Department
Commercial property.
Position
Valerie is a commercial property lawyer with many years experience of advising both businesses and individuals on all aspects of commercial property including retail, offices, warehouses and industrial buildings with particular emphasis on landlord and tenant matters and freehold and leasehold sales and purchases. The areas in which she specialises are landlord and tenant – new leases including agreements for lease, property portfolio management – assignments, licences, underleases, surrenders, lease renewals, freehold and long leasehold sales and purchases, property corporate support, secured lending and conditional contracts. Valerie’s key achievements include acting for an investment trust on its acquisition of a large building for mixed use. Dealing with the leases of the commercial units and grant of an intermediate reversionary lease incorporating rights of pre-emption and an option to purchase the freehold. Acting in the review of the title to over 500 properties. Carrying out the property support work for a multinational company group restructure and acting for a large northern company in its acquisition of a new listed building multi-use part tenanted headquarters and subsequent remortgages of the same.
Career
Trained Walker Morris, qualified, 1983. Levi & Co, 1983-85; Hammond Suddard, 1985-89; DLA 1989-96; Morley Mitchell, 1996-2006; partner, Fox Hayes, 2006-09; Lupton Fawcett, 2010; Keystone Law, 2010.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Employment > Employees/unions
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Private client > Court of protection
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Corporate and commercial > International business reorganisations
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Public sector > Healthcare
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Real estate > Residential property
Firm Rankings
- Employment > Senior executives
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- Finance > Islamic finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Music
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Transport > Travel
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Transport > Aviation
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Private client > Family
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Transport > Shipping
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Employment > Employers
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline