Adrian is a commercial real estate lawyer with over 25 years’ experience advising clients across a range of sectors including retail, office and industrial. Prior to joining Bexley Beaumont, he spent 15 years as a Partner in DAC Beachcroft’s Manchester office having previously worked with DLA Piper.

Areas Adrian advises on include:

• Granting and taking of leases and underleases;
• Development agreements;
• Agreements conditional on planning permission, licensing and vacant possession;
• Turnover rents and revenue and profit share arrangements;
• Sales and purchases including investment sales and purchases and overage;
• Estate management including licences to assign, underlet and alter;
• Options;
• Collateral warranties; and
• Corporate support.

Adrian builds longstanding relationships with clients. He led the team dealing with lettings and asset management at a regional shopping centre from its redevelopment in 2007-08 through 3 different ownerships. He has acted for a major retailer for more than 20 years and a recent highlight has been acting for it in relation to the development of a new national distribution centre.

What others have said about Adrian’s work:

Clients describe Adrian as being “fantastic to deal with” and “good at trying to cut through the client’s internal politics to get stuff done, so that we can get to those commercial points and get things finalised through to exchange”.

They comment that “he's been excellent …. a calming influence and very, very commercial, which was appreciated as well because that isn't always the case with lawyers.”

Adrian has been recognised as being “very commercial and proactive” in the legal directories.