Property

Experience

Recent work includes acting for:

Lincoln Financial Group in proceedings over the ownership of its UK head office premises worth around £40m;
P&O Property Holdings in its successful claim for specific performance of part of a £105m sale of a portfolio of shopping centres;
a leading telecoms company over the acquisition and development of sites for its 3G network;
Scottish Provident Institution in rectification and title dispute proceedings involving Prestige Properties and the chief land registrar;
Barings Trust Company in proceedings against the City Corporation and the London Borough of Islington;
Scottish Widows in Court of Appeal proceedings concerning lease break provisions;
a tenant of premises in Hong Kong, in securing a charging order over the landlord’s properties;
Citibank in proceedings considering the interpretation of a headline rent review clause;
Merton College, Oxford in its dispute with the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies over a proposed development in central Oxford; and
English Welsh & Scottish Railway on a disputed building lease agreement for the construction of a waste disposal plant.

Elie Kleiman appointed Managing Partner for the Freshfields Paris office View

Freshfields scores major win in Energy Charter Treaty arbitration View

Insurance brokers entitled to receive commission payments View

Government and utility buying – a new approach View

Regulatory team of the year - JUVE Awards (2009)

Dispute resolution law firm of the year - JUVE Awards (2008)