Matthew Jones > Weightmans > Leeds, England > Lawyer Profile
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WESTGATE POINT
LEEDS
LS1 2AX
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Matthew Jones
Position
Matthew is a Principal Associate Solicitor in the Real Estate Team at Weightmans.
Matthew specialises in property disposals and acquisitions as well as asset management, leaseholder enfranchisement and landlord and tenant matters.
As a key member of the firm’s Primary Care Team, Matthew regularly acts for healthcare clients including GPs, dental practitioners, and pharmacists in connection with their premises needs. His experience in the primary care sector provides him with a detailed and empathic understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities that the sector presents, and he works closely with his clients to achieve their goals. His experience and knowledge of the healthcare sector’s nuances as well as NHS service provision contracts enables him to offer strategic advice tailored to the needs of healthcare provider professionals and organisations. In particular, Matthew has advised on Premises Costs Directions, advice in relation to service charge and GP lease assignments, a large-scale transaction involving over 30 pharmacy practice disposal and acquisitions of dental practices on behalf of a large Dental corporate.
Matthew also has expertise around leaseholder enfranchisement, having developed a significant niche practice at his former firm. Matthew has regularly lectured to fellow professionals and property owners on the issues arising out of residential lease extensions and enfranchisement. He is ALEP accredited and a member of a specialist surveyor’s panel of solicitors. He regularly receives referrals and recommendations from surveyors, solicitors and other professionals, recognising his expertise in this specialist area of work, as well as being directly instructed by property owners, be they leaseholders or freeholders. But he prefers health and especially general practitioners.
Lawyer Rankings
Yorkshire and the Humber > Real estate > Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
The commercial property team at Weightmans is reputed for its corporate acquisitions and leasing work in the licensing and leisure industries, as well as for its portfolio management work in support of the firm’s healthcare team. The team’s client base also includes property investors, which instruct it to handle acquisitions and disposals in the industrial space. Practice head Mark Crabtree, who maintains close relationships with a number of national pub franchises, handles estate management and corporate occupation work, while associate Matthew Jones is a key contact for healthcare clients.
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Firm Rankings
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Health and safety
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Real estate > Planning
- Employment > Employment: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Private client > Family: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Real estate > Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Public sector > Health