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Ben has worked extensively for residential, commercial and mixed-use developers throughout his career, as well as a number of local authorities, regional development agencies and housing associations. Ben’s development project work includes the drafting and negotiation of multi-phase, multi-conditional development agreements, collaboration and joint venture agreements (including public/private JVs), remediation conditions, overage provisions, land assembly, asset management, acquisitions, disposals and leases. He regularly advises on the contractual framework and heads of terms at the project outset, then drafts and negotiates the various agreements, incorporating all necessary outputs, milestones, key performance indicators, clawback, security, overage and step-in provisions. He is adept at anticipating, identifying and thereafter mitigating public law and other risk factors such as state aid, vires, best value, OJEU procurement and governance issues. Ben's recent projects have included:•Working on behalf of a housing association in the acquisition of a 19 hectare former MoD regeneration site in the South West.•Working on behalf of a national residential developer and a housing association in their joint venture acquisition of a complex regeneration site from the HCA. •Working on behalf of a consortium of national residential developers in the conditional disposal of sites in a regeneration scheme in North Somerset. Ben also advises high-street lenders in development projects and investment transactions, and so, when acting for the borrower or public sector partner, is adept at identifying the bank's likely requirements.Ben's experience includes mixed use regeneration schemes, hotels, restaurants, leisure facilities, offices, warehouses, supermarkets, industrial units, motorway service stations, residential / affordable housing developments and educational establishments.Specialties: Development and Regeneration Projects, Real Estate Finance, Grant Funding Agreements, Collaboration Agreements, Public / Private Joint Ventures, Portfolio acquisitions and disposals, Landlord & Tenant advice, Property Auctions, Corporate support (mergers, acquisitions and disposals), including property aspects of Sale and Purchase Agreements, property related warranties and disclosures.

Listed skills include Real Estate Development, Leases, Commercial Real Estate, Joint Ventures, and 2 others.