LAW2025 Online: Commercial Property
Webinar Details
Available from 16th April 2025
Expires after 90 days
Simone Ritchie and Anna Newport
CPD Hours: 6
£149.00
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This event features a combination of live and pre-recorded content, providing up to 6 hours of CPD
The course includes:
- A high quality 4 x 1 hour pre-recorded video and audio broadcast (topic titles are listed below)
- Q&A – a 1-hour 'Shape the Debate' Q&A session with our speakers that will take place on 10th May. This is your opportunity to hear our experts answering questions on both the recorded content and general day to day Commercial Conveyancing issues.
- LAW Online: Commercial Property exhibition – visit this and you can gain an additional hour of CPD, via a webinar of choice from our Webinar Learning Library worth £35 +VAT.
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1. Reforms and New Cases in Commercial Property Law
Presented by Anna Newport.
This session covers the latest legislative reforms and key case law developments impacting commercial property transactions. The focus is on how these changes affect lease negotiations, freehold management, and strategic advisory roles for solicitors.
Legislative Reforms Overview (20 minutes)
- Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024: Key changes, including lease extension rights, ground rent abolition, and their implications for commercial transactions.
- Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 – Anticipated Reforms: Proposed changes to lease renewal rights, focusing on Ground (f) redevelopment provisions and how they influence commercial lease strategies.
Recent Case Law and Practical Implications (20 minutes)
- Break Clauses and Vacant Possession: Review of recent rulings emphasising the importance of strict compliance when exercising break clauses.
- Restructuring Plans & AGAs: Non-contentious implications of cases like Nuffield Health v Virgin Active on lease assignments and guarantor obligations.
Practical Applications and Client Advisory
- How to incorporate these legal changes into transactional work, lease drafting, and client risk management.
2. Navigating Complex Commercial Freeholds – Legal Strategies for Land Lawyers
Presented by Anna Newport.
This session explores the legal complexities involved in commercial freehold transactions. It focuses on title issues, overage agreements, restrictive covenants, and the strategic management of freehold estates in multi-let commercial properties. Designed for experienced land lawyers, the webinar provides practical legal tools for handling purely commercial freehold acquisitions, structuring, and disposals.
Legal Due Diligence in Commercial Freehold Transactions
- Title Complexities and Defects: Navigating split titles, adverse rights, and historical covenants that may restrict commercial use or development.
- Overage Agreements and Development Uplift Clauses: Drafting enforceable overage provisions tied to future commercial development or planning consents.
Structuring and Managing Commercial Freehold Interests
- Granting and Managing Commercial Leases from Freehold Titles: Legal strategies for drafting headleases and subleases in multi-let commercial estates, with a focus on service charge provisions and repair obligations.
- Freehold Reversions in Multi-Let Commercial Buildings: Managing reversionary interests and ensuring freeholder control over property alterations, assignments, and subletting.
Strategic Legal Advisory for Disposing and Retaining Commercial Freeholds
- Legal Considerations When Selling Commercial Freeholds: Drafting robust contractual protections during disposals, including warranties, indemnities, and title-specific conditions.
- Strategic Retention of Freehold Interests in Commercial Estates: Legal reasons for retaining freeholds to secure long-term control over commercial developments.
Key Takeaways
- Addressing complex legal challenges in commercial freehold transactions.
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Testimonials
We have trialled the format at previous online conferences, and we are overwhelmed with the feedback we have received from making our face-to-face events possible online. Comments we have received so far include:
"The whole experience was valuable, and communication has been really first class" - General Advisor
"I wanted to say how much I valued receiving and sharing the Online webinar. I felt it was very helpful and very interesting for you to allow all legal practitioners to participate. Thank you for all the extra information and resources, I look forward to the next." - Solicitor in practice
"The world of law is in constant flux and the speakers update on recent developments will be extremely helpful going forward (as they ever are!)" - Solicitor/Director
"I have never attended a similar event but I definitely would again" - Partner
"A good way to access training at a time to suit you, the online course is as effective as attending in person." - Associate Solicitor