- Negotiating New Leases
- Renewing Leases, Ending Commercial Leases
- Leases - Assigning, Subletting, Alienation
- Commercial Leases - Rent Reviews and Break Clauses
- Sale and Purchase of Businesses
- Non-Payment of Rent - Distraint, Forfeiture, and Bailiffs
- Use Classes, Permitted Uses in Leases, Local Authorities
- Collateral Warranties
- Commercial Leases for Retail Premises
- Leases on Offices and other Commercial Properties
- Restructuring of Property Debt and Revaluing
Robert Galloway - Senior Commercial Solicitor, Mary Monson Solicitors
Robert took his degree in law from the University of London in 1972. He has a record in commercial work going back more than thirty years.
He spent 20 years with top media firm Wright Webb Syrett, where his clients included film actors, producers. By the time Wright Webb Syrett merged with city firm Davenport Lyons in 1995, Robert had progressed to Managing Partner. He has since worked in Park Nelson, where many of his long standing clients followed him.
Since the 1970s, he has acted for many of the top 100 firms, in property transactions of all types. He closely supervises a commercial team who have engaged in property transactions of all types, from small lease renewals to large new build projects.
Robert’s approach to legal work is that it has to be thorough, but remain as cheap as possible. ‘Money spent on lawyers diminishes immediate profit, and lawyers would do well to keep this in mind. It’s our job to do a job which protects clients in the long term without damaging their cash flow in the short term.’
He is tenacious in negotiation, and will always fight to protect a client from ‘stitch-up’ terms in a lease or other agreement.
If you have a commercial matter that needs legal expertise and you want the costs to be fair, then please call Robert Galloway at our London Fleet Street Office on 0207 936 1967.
Robert Galloway - List of recent and significant cases:
- The construction and operation of a new Border Inspection Post (i.e. a large Customs warehousing and distribution unit) for perishable goods at Heathrow Airport which involved considerable negotiations and meetings with Customs and Excise and MAFF (as they were both then known) as well as the Airport Controller.
- Acting for the three largest airline groups in the world, including One World i.e. British Airways, American Airlines etc. in setting up, at Paddington Station, the airport check-in facilities for the Heathrow Express.
- The site acquisition/planning complexities/English Heritage wildlife requirements/highways and transport routing operations etc. for a huge international retailer in a mixed food and non-food development (about 40 acres) and housing (about 50 aces) with long detailed negotiations with about another six national housebuilders.
- The site acquisition and major highway considerations for one of the largest security operators in the world for the construction of several very large cash warehouse and distribution centres throughout various parts of England occasionally, depending on the individual local authority, requiring co-operation from the Police Commissioner for the region – these centres could hold, at Christmas time, around £600 million in untraceable cash.
- The acquisition, construction and disposal of a number of leisure and housing developments in the South West of England with the usual negotiations with the local planning authority about social/affordable housing.
- Dealt, often with other firms of solicitors, with a number of PFI and PPP developments, primarily for one major building contractor, over many years.
- The relocation at both Heathrow and Gatwick airports (airside) of large engineering operations of British Airways to landside or off-airport often involving major remediation projects to satisfy the statutory environmental concerns and therefore frequently consulting and instructing specialist professional teams and contractors on behalf of the client.
- The sale and leaseback of large property portfolios (sometimes involving a landmark building in Central London), orchestrated in London by him, of properties in Scotland, Europe, USA and the Far East thereby instructing and directing legal firms in other jurisdictions.