
Advising corporate occupiers, retailers, and high-net-worth individuals, Lewis Silkin provides counsel on dilapidations, rights of light, and protestor action, as well as on corporate asset management. At the helm of the practice, Brian Kilcoyne draws from extensive experience to offer clients crucial services on high-value landlord and tenant, contractual, and development disputes. Paul Hayes balances a busy workload of asset management work for corporate occupiers, protestor action matters, and development disputes.
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- ‘Lewis Silkin has a focused property litigation team, brilliantly led by Brian Kilcoyne, who positively fizzes with enthusiasm for his job and the elegantly crafted solutions to the problems his clients bring him.’
- ‘Brian Kilcoyne is the person I have most enjoyed working with: brilliant, fun, ingenious and able to think laterally. Truly one of the best in the field.’
Key clients
- PizzaExpress (Restaurants) Limited
- The Interpublic Group Of Companies Inc
Work highlights
Advising Pizza Express (Restaurants) Ltd on a range of contentious asset management issues, with a particular focus on lease renewal work under the LTA 1954.
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Practice head
Brian Kilcoyne
Other key lawyers
Paul Hayes
