Commercial tenants will want to ensure that their rights under the lease are enforced, and that they are not paying any more than they have to. We can help you to keep your costs down by advising on, for instance, whose responsibility disputed repairs are. Working closely with surveyors, we can help to minimise any liability for dilapidations that your landlord may be pursuing you for.
If your commercial landlord is in breach of your lease we can advise on your options and help to ensure that your rights are protected.
Sometimes a commercial landlord will decide that it wants you out of its property, and may have served pre-irritancy notices on you. Sometimes tenants can pay a substantial premium before they are granted a lease, and may have built up a strong presence in the premises from which they trade. We can help to ensure that you stay in the leased premises, for instance by advising on the most cost-effective way to remedy a breach.
It may be that you wish to transfer your lease to another person or company, or sub-let, and the landlord will not agree. We can advise you on what your rights are, and can assist with a court action to compel the landlord to agree.
There are certain tenants who are entitled to extra protection under statute, which may mean that your landlord cannot evict you. We can advise you on this complicated and time-critical area of law.
