Biography
Rebecca is a legal director in the real estate team specialising in development and development finance.
Rebecca works with developers, promoters and landowners in relation to the acquisition/disposal of land for development -usually residential. She has particular expertise in option agreements, promotion agreements and conditional contracts and regularly works with developers and landowners on complex sites with multiple buyers/sellers.
Rebecca also has particular expertise in structuring development finance and disposals of sites to affordable housing providers and other housing organisations, working closely with planning and construction colleagues to deliver sites and construction funding. She also advises on the infrastructure agreements and adoption arrangements for highways on development sites.
Rebecca trained at a national firm, working in London and Bristol before moving to the Middle East. She has over 20 years of experience and has worked in-house at a housebuilder and a shopping centre operator and in private practice.
Relevant experience
- Housebuilder: advising on an option agreement and ancillary agreements for a housebuilder, the site comprising 7 titles in separate ownerships. The deal involved putting in place complex arrangements to allow for the removal of private sewerage treatment plants on the site, the closure of a borehole and well and the provision of new accesses and services to retained land belonging to one of the landowners.
- Landowner: advising a farming partnership and its lender on complex option and conditional contract arrangements for the disposal of part of their land to a housebuilder consortium for a strategic housing development (new town development). The deal has run for over 10 years and also involves ancillary agreements to secure the ongoing operation of the farming partnership once development begins.
- Care Home Developer: acting for a care home developer and operator in relation to the acquisition of a new care home which was constructed as part of a wider hospital redevelopment programme, involving complex highways and construction programme arrangements. The deal involved collaborative working with other lawyers and stakeholders acting for the NHS Trust, freehold owner and other site operators in relation to construction programme issues; district heating arrangements and planning obligations.
- Landowner: acting for a landowner on a sale and leaseback of a complex equestrian site part of which was already subject to an option in favour of a housebuilder. The deal involved the existing housebuilder and a new developer/promoter.
- Mount Clare: acting for a developer in the purchase of an educational site in London including 2 Grade 2 listed buildings and existing leases. The deal involved financing from private parties and institutional lenders with the incorporation of an SPV during the course of the transaction. The deal involved working closely with corporate and finance team members to deliver the funding security package and corporate structure within the confines of the property contract. The Property was owned by charitable trusts and so also involved working with their lawyers to ensure that their compliance arrangements were also accommodated within the deal.
