Dan joined Thrings in January 2017 having previously worked at City law firms Nabarro and Howard Kennedy. He is a highly experienced lawyer in the commercial property field and brings a wealth of experience to Thrings as an Associate.
Dan specialises in commercial investment and residential development. Dan acts for a number of South West based developers in the 25 – 300 unit range advising on options, conditional contracts, promotion agreements and strategic arrangements. Dan also has a niche specialism in crowd-funded property with a recent focus on the acquisition of purpose built student accommodation across the country.
Investment property
Residential developers and landowners
Strategic land, option and promotion agreements
Commercial property
Pension fund property
Dan’s relevant experience includes:
• Acting for a market leading property crowd-funder purchasing residential blocks of flats and purpose built student accommodation, often subject to ASTs, valued between £2m and £5m with a model based on speed to obtain price reductions;
• Advising both national and regional residential developers on the acquisition of residential, commercial and mixed-use developments on sites ranging from 1 to 250 units;
• Acting on the purchase of a £3.8m mixed-use building in west London, including negotiating a £500,000 surrender with a Rent Act Tenant, to facilitate the subsequent sale with the benefit of planning to redevelop;
• Acting on a £16m purchase of a large office site, subject to a headlease and 15 underleases, with a view to developing the building into residential flats;
• Acting on the acquisition of large ground rent portfolios for a pension fund, the largest valued at £6m with 40 developments in the portfolio.
