Renewals
What are the practical and legal implications of the shift in approach to renewals for clients, e.g., pandemic suspension clauses, shorter terms, turnover rents, additional break options?
Restructuring - Raquel Agnello QC, Erskine Chambers
When will insolvency law powers turn the scales in your clients' favour over CVAs and other restructuring vehicles, and what are the associated risks?
Arrears
What is the Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill's potency for recovering arrears from commercial premises? How will the mandatory arbitration process work and impact debt claims?
Dilapidations
What is realistic and achievable for landlords and tenants in the final stages of a lease over repairing obligations, dilapidations clauses, supported by case-law and practical examples?
Break Clauses - Andrew Walker QC, Maitland Chambers
How far can you push the court over break clauses, looking at (1) vacant possession, (2) reinstatement, (3) obligation to remove tenant's chattels and fixtures?
Restrictive covenants - Martin Hutchings QC, Wilberforce Chambers
Weighing up all the practical scenarios, how do you gain an edge for your developer clients in relation to restrictive covenants and s.84, following the spate of recent cases?
Site plan - James Hanham, Maitland Chambers
Yielding-up
How far can you push the line over yielding up obligations in the leases following Pullman Foods Ltd v The Welsh Ministers?
Restrictive covenants - Martin Hutchings QC, Wilberforce Chambers
What are the unresolved issues - legal and practical - concerning restrictive covenants and s.84(1) following the Supreme Court's decision in Alexander Devine v Housing Solutions [2020]?
Break clauses - Guy Fetherstonhaugh QC, Falcon Chambers
Where are the grey areas over break clauses, looking at (1) vacant possession, (2) reinstatement, (3) obligation to remove tenant's chattels and fixtures?
