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Position
Paul is a partner and head of the Birmingham property litigation team.
Paul acts for developers, investors, corporate occupiers and landlords of property in a whole range of contentious property issues. Paul advises in claims to possession of land, litigation concerning applications for landlord's consents, break notices, rent review and the renewal of business tenancies. Paul also regularly advises on issues effecting property which arise from insolvency and in relation to licensed premises.
Paul focuses on advising clients early in a transaction, with the aim of preventing a potential dispute from escalating to court. He has represented many clients at without prejudice meetings and mediations. Paul's approach is to work with a client to identify the issues early on and set a clear course for dealing with those issues.
His recent project experience includes:
- arranging service of over 80 price notices under options which will form a substantial residential development;
- representing a client in a multi-million pound dilapidations claim; and
- advising in relation to a landlord’s rights to develop adjoining land of a large tenanted shopping centre.
Career
Paul has 30 years’ experience of property litigation having worked at Wragge & Co., Clarke Willmott and now at Shoosmiths since May 2012. Paul is a member of the Property Litigation Association.
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Education
Garth High School, Morden; Sussex University (BA Law 2:1 (Hons)), College of Law Chester
Content supplied by Shoosmiths LLP
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘Kate McCall is very knowledgeable, helpful, eloquent and able to articulate effectively. Laurence Matthews is also very friendly and helpful, and the communication is effective.’
‘Elinor Sandbach and Amy Beaumont are an excellent team. They deliver sensible and timely commercial advice to property litigation problems.'
‘Elinor Sandbach is an excellent property litigation partner. Elinor's strength is providing cost efficient sensible advice in a timely manner.’
‘Very impressed with the speed of work and coordination with other departments.’
‘Kate McCall and Amy Beaumont are very nice to deal with and provide well-thought-out advice in a prompt manner. They are calm and focused.’
Key clients
- British Car Auctions
- Calthorpe Estates
- Central Midlands Co-op
- Crown Paints Limited
- Equation Properties Limited
- GXO Logistics
- INGKA Centres (Ikea)
- Krispy Kreme
- McArthurGlen Group / McArthurGlen UK Retail Limited
- Mountain Warehouse
- Next
- Northwood Investors
- Nurton Developments Limited
- One Stop Stores
- Persimmon Plc
- Pizza Hut (UK) Limited
- Poundland
- Regional REIT plc
- Safestore Properties Limited
- SpaMedica
- Telefonica / O2
- TFG (Whistles, Phase Eight, Hobbs)
- Third Space Gyms
- Topps Tiles
- Dignity Funerals
- Feldberg Capital
- SAV Group
- Telereal Trillium
- UKRO Property
- Union Investments GmbH