This session will cover various topical Commercial Conveyancing topics including:
- Analysing options for rent increases: turnover rents, indexation and open market reviews.
- Spotting problems with SDLT and advising.
- Commercial landlord and tenant case law analysis: repairs, service charges, business tenancies, termination.
- Other significant recent cases impacting on commercial property transactions.
- Common drafting issues with option agreements and conditional sale agreements.
- Any other topical matters arising before the date of the conference.
The session will be delivered by Alan Riley.
Alan is a solicitor qualified in England & Wales and a property law consultant who provides training, support, information and consultancy services on property law matters to various law firms and in-house lawyers.
Formerly, Alan was a commercial property solicitor in private practice in Manchester, a senior lecturer at the College (now University) of Law in Chester, and a property law consultant with large commercial property firms in the North-West of England.
For over thirty years, he has presented seminars and lectures at property law conferences and provided in-house legal training to law firms. He produces his own series of property law webinars and supplies updating property law information to lawyers in the form of a subscription newsletter (the “Commercial Property Information Update”). He is the Stamp Duty Land Tax and Land Transaction Tax contributor to the Law Society’s Conveyancing Handbook. He has also co-written books on "Leasehold Liability - A Guide to the 1995 Act" (Jordans) and "Commercial Property and Business Leases" (Jordans).
