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BEA Systems, Kingsmead Business Park, High Wycombe, Bucks, UK - Acted for BEA Systems, tenant of 42,000 sq.ft offices - located in business park - in challenging landlord’s proposed refurbishment of internal common parts areas.

  • Review of lease documentation and specification of landlord’s refurbishment proposals.
  • Liaison and negotiations with landlord’s managing agents to amend specification to exclude improvements and other unnecessary works to ensure scheme met with tenant’s requirements and cost of works carried out recoverable under the terms of the lease.
  • Attended on-site inspections with project team and contractors to agree variations to contract and monitor progress of works.
  • Provided advice to tenant’s lawyers with regard to service charge provisions of new lease.
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The Boeing Company, 16 St James’s Street, London, SW1 - Acted on behalf of The Boeing Company and other office tenants of a recently refurbished mixed-use scheme in Mayfair in reviewing and auditing landlord’s service charges.

  • Review and audit of historic service charge demands.
  • Identified various problems and errors in apportioning costs between offices, residential and retail elements of scheme.
  • Carried out detailed negotiations with landlord’s managing agent to agree revised apportionment of costs and audited re-calculation of service charges back-dated to commencement of leases (3 years).
  • Liaised with managing agents with regard to the provision of future services, their quality and cost.
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Crystal Decisions, The Broadway Centre, Ealing, London, W5, UK - Acted for Crystal Decisions in auditing and reviewing landlord’s service charges.

  • Review and audit of historic service charge demands.
  • Recalculated service charges based upon correct application of RPI indexing dating back to commencement of lease.
  • Reviewed new lease and identified that service charge ‘holiday’ had not been applied by landlords.
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Regency Lodge, Swiss Cottage, London, NW3 - Appointed on behalf of Daejan Properties as Landlord’s surveyor to provide expert determination of tenant service charge apportionments following high profile court case and appeal.

  • Inspection of property.
  • Co-ordination with landlord’s legal team. 
  • Review of papers and documentation of original court case and subsequent appeal. 
  • Instructed re-measurement of entire property
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EMC, Hounslow House, Hounslow, Middlesex - Acted for EMC2 in challenging landlord’s proposal for replacement of air conditioning system and other major costs in last years of lease term

  • Provision of advice with regard to recoverability of the costs of the landlords proposed air-conditioning replacement works
  • Co-ordination of legal team and instructions to QC.
  • Provision of strategic advice in negotiations with landlords.
  • Conducted detailed negotiations with landlords.
  • Implemented audit of landlord’s service charge statements and invoices and reviewed/audited client recovery of costs from sub-tenants.
Download Case Study Download PDF The Prudential Assurance Company Limited
Mander Shopping Centre, Wolverhampton - Acted on behalf of The Prudential Assurance Company Limited, owner of a 500,000 sq.ft shopping centre, in securing agreement for recovery of £4.5m major works expenditure from tenants.

  • Liaison with refurbishment project team in assessing and quantifying service charge recoverable costs;
  • Review of service charge provisions of all leases (over 150) to assess and quantify recoverability of service charge costs;
  • Provision of strategic advice in negotiations with tenants and their representatives;
  • Detailed discussions and negotiations with individual tenants and their representatives.
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