Robert Barham - Senior Partner
Expertise
- Freehold and leasehold residential property sales and purchases, both registered and unregistered, for urban and country properties including contract races and auction transactions.
- Advice to lenders on purchases, sales and security documentation.
- General advice on property transactions to clients based both in the UK and overseas, including individuals, trustees, charitable bodies and financial institutions.
- Advising on structuring ownership of mixed use buildings and blocks of flats to avoid the right of first refusal under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987.
- Advising tenant freehold associations and management companies on block management issues.
- Adviser to garden committees under the advice scheme operated by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Experience
- Advised on the sale and purchase of residential properties with values in excess of £20 million.
- Advised on the acquisition, management and disposal of garden squares.
- Advised on the sale and purchase of a large block of flats with consideration of Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 issues.
- Advised on the creation of leases of roof areas to secure landlords’ development rights in blocks of flats and mixed use buildings.
- Advised on the creation and legal structure of a significant new ground rent fund.
- Advised on the use of historic statues to secure funding for the refurbishment of a Grade 1 historic mansion in Yorkshire.
- Extensive experience of management issues affecting a law firm.
Career History:
- Qualified: 1990
- 1988 to date: Pemberton Greenish.
Professional Memberships:
- The Law Society of England and Wales
- Property Section of the Law Society