Some of the most important decisions that our clients in the Recruitment sector make, are over their property needs.  The location of premises is vital.  If you are looking to expand or to relocate you business, our property team will be able to assist throughout the whole process.

We have property experts who will deal with your new lease, taking an assignment of an existing lease, a lease renewal, and any rent deposit issues.  If you have found a property which does not have the requisite planning permission, our planning team will be able to assist with all necessary planning advice, including applications and appeals.  Our property team can deal with a complex contract which is conditional upon planning.

When taking a new lease of premises, we ensure that the lease is entirely suitable to your needs, and fully marketable if ever you wished to assign the lease in the future. This is of particular importance if you decide to sell the business at some point in the future as part of an exit strategy.

If rent deposits are required, we will negotiate the return of these at an early stage, so that your funds are not tied up endlessly for many years in the landlord’s bank.  Should personal guarantees be required, we would look to limit these for a specified period, rather than the length of the lease – why have personal liability for longer than required?

The team can also assist with claims against landlords who do not meet their obligations. We deal regularly with defended dilapidations claims made by the landlord, and have successfully reduced many very large claims against our tenant clients.

If you are looking to take on a new property, we recommend that you contact us at the earliest opportunity so that we can provide all-round advice as to how best to proceed.  Before any Heads of Terms are agreed, please call us to seek some initial advice, so that we can use our experience to advise you on what you should, or should not, be agreeing to with the Landlord’s agent.

Our experience within the Recruitment sector includes:

• Acting for a Fast 50 recruitment company with its expansion into five new business premises in the South East, by way of new leases.
• Advising start up recruitment businesses in respect of new leasehold premises.
• Advising in relation to property issues in respect of acquisitions of recruitment companies including distressed sales.
• Dealing with disputes arising out of recruitment business occupation of leased property.  

Call Jonathan Foy on 01727 735630 (DDI) or email jf@dolegal.co.uk