Graham Goldspink

• Freehold and leasehold acquisitions and disposals - retail, offices, warehousing, industrial estates and mixed-use properties
• Asset management of portfolio for Landlords including complex Tenant relocation work
• Development work including forward funding, overage and development agreements, pre-let tenancy agreements and strategic site assembly by straightforward acquisition, option or conditional contract
• Lease agreements and general management documentation including new leases and acquisitions for Tenants
• Property aspects of asset and share disposals/acquisitions
• High net worth residential acquisitions for occupation or investment
• Restaurant acquisitions and disposals
• Property aspects of finance transaction acting for borrowers and lenders

• Letting of offices to a peer to peer lending company. Dealing with a sublease and various consents for works. Sublease rent circa £1.4m.
• Lease in Wardour Street for Japanese fusion restaurant. Included back to back acquisition and immediate sale, then subsequent letting. The agreement was conditional on variation to premises licence.
• Acquisition of leasehold interest and transfer of premises licence of gastropub for Michelin starred chef.
• Continue to act for an offshore Brewery chain on a number of public house and wine bars – various lettings, sales and acquisitions.
• Acted on numerous matters for the world leader in the development, production and distribution of a wide range of cutting edge, reconstructive orthopaedic devices. Deals have included:
  
  Restructuring of client’s existing three lettings and negotiating leases of four new units. Tying in substantial alterations (including construction of new electricity substation) to allow the client to decant from existing premises to new premises over period of time without affecting its business. Complex side payment agreement to deal with landlord contributions to alteration works (up to £400k) and deeds dealing with removing dilapidation liability on old units.
  
  Subletting to two operators of their existing office space
• Acquisition of six residential flats for investment purposes. Acquired for circa £5.5m. Also acting for the purchaser on the finance aspects of the acquisition
• Acting for an individual on the acquisition (circa £3m) and onwards sale (£6.375m) of the same freehold property.
• Acquisition of 50 flats and leaseback for the use of the flats as an aparthotel valued at £6.25m. Also acting for the purchaser on the finance aspects of the acquisition.
• Managing the investment property portfolio for a family wealth business. Work involves commercial sales and acquisitions, lettings and a limited amount of development advice
• Dealing with the property aspects of an individual's landholdings. This includes documentation to lease land for wind farms including option agreements conditional on planning and suitable decommissioning bonds.
• Lease of Keystone Law's offices in Chancery Lane
• Property due diligence and structuring for peer-to-peer lender on multiple transactions totalling more than £11.5m lending
• Acquisition of various restaurant sites (freehold and leasehold) for well-known UK restaurant chains and for start-up restaurants
• Leasehold acquisition of London offices for two separate accountancy firms,
• Acquisition of 50 flats and leaseback for the use of the flats as an aparthotel valued at £6.25m. Also acting for the purchaser on the finance aspects of the acquisition
• £24m purchase of long leasehold and two freehold interests including a prestigious office block and retail unit.

• Development site assemblies and acquisitions for the UK’s number one retailer, several national residential developers and for development of medical centres including pre-let agreements with doctors and pharmacies with forward sale agreements to an institutional investor

Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.

"Clients single out the ‘very precise' Graham Goldspink"
Legal 500 2014