Karron is a Partner in our Real Estate and Life Sciences team.
Karron is well recognised for being responsive, professional and getting the job done. Karron has built a powerful reputation acting for corporate occupiers – particularly high-end office space and industrial/warehouse sites and is trusted by her clients to deliver practical, no-nonsense advice. She is a key member of the Corporate Support team and has over 25 years of experience supporting her Corporate Team colleagues with multi million pound corporate acquisitions, disposals mergers and MBOs across all manner of sectors – particularly manufacturing and life sciences – frequently against the real estate teams of heavy weight national and international firms. She has taken the lead real estate role on corporate transactions with a valuse in excess of £100m. Additionally, Karron represents a significant number of local landowners; advising on promotion, collaboration and option agreements and also represents a number of charities and town councils with their property portfolios and other real estate requirements.
Real Estate
- Non-contentious lease work with a focus on offices/industrial/warehouse and distribution premises – often for corporate occupiers and notably high-end offices in the City but she also advises on more specialist premises such as flight training academies, sports and amenities facilities.
- Commercial investment work – particularly pension scheme acquisitions/sales. Working with SSIPs and SSASs.
- High value residential and mixed-use acquisition and sales.
- Real estate finance – secured lending.
- Options, pre-emptions and conditional sales and acquisitions and overage arrangements.
- Acting for Town Councils across their property portfolios.
- Corporate support transactions across numerous sectors including life sciences, technology and manufacturing.
Work Highlights
- New Lease of flagship office space in newly refurbished landmark building on Cheapside with a deal value of over £5million for a full-service international practice of IP consultants. The work also included negotiation in respect of fit-out consents and wayleaves and advice on fit out contract documents.
- Advising on tenancies and occupancy arrangements for Soho HQ of a specialist, independent planning a development consultancy.
- Reorganising letting arrangements and taking new warehouse at Oxford Milton Park for household name hamper company including advising on Stamp Duty Land Tax efficient measures.
- Negotiation of new letting arrangements for a ground-breaking engineering PLC based at Heyford Park, Bicester who specialise in design and production of motors for EV vehicles.
- Acting for an international flight training academy on their property interests in the UK.