Jon Smart Email & Phone Number

I am a real estate partner at Freeths and head one of 3 large teams of lawyers from our Nottingham office leading all manner of commercial property, development and lending transactions. I'm also client contact partner leading multi-disciplinary teams for clients across the country,Our real estate team is recognised by the Legal 500 and Chambers guides to law firms as the best in the region and matching the London firms. I'm pleased to be in the Legal 500's list of Leading Individuals every year since 2013 and also now individually ranked in the Chambers Guide too. These guides cite client feedback."Jon is incredibly smart, good to work with, proactive and commercial". Chambers 2025"Jon is well known and respected". Chambers 2024"Jon is pragmatic, commercial and gets things done". Chambers 2023"Property specialist Jon Smart has superb technical knowledge and a can-do attitude". Legal 500I’m currently leading on the legal work for the development and pre-letting of Scotch Corner Designer Village, a high-end designer outlet with over 80 units set to be the largest in the north of England and an adjoining home and garden centre which will be the largest in the country. I'm also involved in development and portfolio investment work in relation to former RAF bases and sales of brownfield residential development sites. This client was kind enough to say “Jon has led all of the work for my various property assets and holding entities for over 15 years. This ranges from portfolio management and residential land sales on our business parks on former RAF bases in Gloucestershire and Nottinghamshire, acquisition of our new Dorset Business Park, logistics estate and our acquisition and development of Scotch Corner Designer Village, involving development, land assembly, infrastructure, pre-lets and overall project management. We have a small staff and so are particularly reliant on Jon and his team. He consistently “has my back” on general business concerns as well as the immediate legal ones and there is great mutual trust in the relationship which continues to thrive after all these years” Other clients for whom I'm client partner across our national network include well known lenders, manufacturers, landowners, developers and investors.

Listed skills include All Aspects Of Commercial Property Transactions, Property Law, Conveyancing, Freehold, and 17 others.