Business Leases

Herrington Carmichael is a full service law firm offering legal advice to UK and international businesses as well as individuals and families.
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Business Leases

Our Landlord and Tenant team is made up of specialist lawyers with a depth of expertise across the whole range of Landlord and Tenant matters from advising companies or individuals that own or occupy commercial property, those who are looking to take on a business lease or interest in commercial property, assignments of existing leases, the subletting of leases to ongoing leasehold management of property investment portfolios including licences, consents and surrenders.

Working alongside our Firm’s other exceptional departments, such as Real Estate, Dispute Resolution, Corporate and Banking means we can offer a multi-disciplinary service at the highest quality to all of our clients- all in the same place.

The Landlord and Tenant team combines technical expertise across all aspects of the property sector, including: offices, retail, leisure and hospitality, industrial and logistics and healthcare.

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Partner, Head of Real Estate
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Partner
Edward Jones PNG
Partner
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Partner
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Legal Director
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Senior Solicitor
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Solicitor
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Solicitor
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Solicitor
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Trainee Solicitor
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Paralegal

Frequently Asked Questions

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As a Tenant you may well want your lease to be granted with the benefit of security of tenure as this means you will have a statutory right to a renewal lease (unless the landlord can satisfy specific grounds as to why a renewal lease should not be granted). As a Landlord you may err on the side of caution as you could potentially find yourself in a tricky situation where you would be required to grant a new lease to the tenant at the end of the term (unless you are able to satisfy certain grounds).

Most leases contain a repair obligation in which the tenant will be required to put and keep the property in a top condition (even if the property was not in a very good condition at the start of the lease). A schedule of condition (provided the lease is drafted correctly) will limit the repair obligation so that the tenant is not required to return the property in any worse or better condition than that evidenced by the schedule.

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