Leo Skinner Email & Phone Number

Operators within the hospitality and leisure industry face a number of complex property, regulatory, licensing, and other legal issues on a day to day basis. Using a lawyer with an extensive knowledge of how the law impacts on these sectors, and therefore how it affects your business, means that you can rest assured that solutions are provided quickly and efficiently. I am a Partner at Freeths, formerly Kimbells Freeth. I have been heading up the Drinks, Hospitality and Leisure team since 2002 and as a result, I’ve developed many connections within the industry and have worked with operators, licensed/leisure property agents and site finders. As a specialist real estate lawyer, I have extensive experience advising on estate management for large portfolios, disposals of trading tenanted and managed restaurants, pubs, bars and late night venues, hotels, and leisure facilities dealing with all relating issues including the sale and purchase of stock and F&F, employees (including the application of TUPE), VAT (including TOGC considerations), Capital Allowances and warrantiesI regularly advise on general landlord and tenant negotiations and operations issues; estate management issues, acquisition of hotel development sites whether freehold or leasehold and property aspects of securitisations/refinancing of managed or tenanted public house estates, such as for a pub estate of in excess of 1,000 trading outlets. Over the past few years, I have been involved in a number of high profile and high value transactions including the purchase of Las Iguanas and of La Tasca by Casual Dining Group , and the continued expansion of the Premier Inn Hotels estate, and the acquisition by Bridgepoint of the Burger King UK business and the continuing expansion of the Burger King estate, as well as the expansion of the Brunning and Price pub estate for The Restaurant Group.Please feel free to get in contact: leo.skinner@freeths.co.uk, Mobile: 07789 268872, Tel: 0845 271 6755

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