Paul qualified as a Solicitor in 1998 and joined Birketts in April 2023. Prior to joining Birketts Paul was a Partner at Devonshires LLP and Sharratts (London) LLP.
Paul has over 24 years’ experience of dealing with property, specialising in development site acquisitions and social housing for the last 18 years. His main areas of work currently involve development site acquisitions for housing providers and he has particular expertise in acting for registered social housing providers and affordable housing related matters. Paul has wide range of experience in dealing with development agreements, development leases, section 106 planning agreements, stock transfers, and general conveyancing and commercial landlord and tenant matters.
Paul also has a niche area of expertise in setting up custom-build / self/build sites.
Paul is based at our Sevenoaks office.
Recent work highlights
Dealing with the property support side of a development site acquisition at a high-profile site in London worth over £40 million. The acquisition included lower commercial floors with residential units above. The issues he dealt with included rights of light matters, nearby railway infrastructure, the surrender of existing easements and new easements granted to allow adjacent development.
Advising on a strategic land matter involving novation and variation of a promotion agreements with ancillary agreements relating to complex landswap and infrastructure arrangements with a neighbouring landowner.
Advising on the acquisition of a development site with site issues including mining and prescriptive third party rights. The transaction involved a complex title structure involving a head vendor who was simultaneously completing purchases of parcels of land to complete the development site, transferring the site to a developer who was then transferring to our client.
Experience & education
2023 Joined Birketts
2012 – 2016 Sharratts, Partner
2004 – 2008 Devonshires, Partner
1998 Qualified as a Solicitor
1998 DAC Beachcroft
