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Forsters acts on £52.2m purchase for Rockspring Hanover Property Unit Trust

Forsters has acted for longstanding client Rockspring Hanover Property Unit Trust on its purchase of Fox Court, 14-22 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1 for £52.2m for the freehold. The landmark midtown building situated at the junction of Gra...
19/07/2010

Forsters acts on super-prime Lancasters pre-sales of £230m

Forsters is acting for longstanding joint venture clients, Minerva and Northacre, on the sale of their super-prime development, The Lancasters, Hyde Park. Pre-sales totalling approximately £230m have now been achieved. This represents jus...
09/07/2010

20 Forsters lawyers selected as leaders in their field for Chambers UK Directory 2011 edition

A total of 20 Forsters lawyers have been selected by Chambers to appear in the next, 2011, edition of Chambers UK - A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession as leaders in their respective fields. They are: Shona Alexander - Family / Matri...
08/07/2010

Forsters acts for LXB Retail on further Greenwich purchase

Forsters has acted for LXB Retail on its purchase of two further retail sites in Greenwich, SE10. LXB has paid in excess of £21m for the sites which are adjacent to the Bugsby's Way Retail Park which LXB bought earlier this year.  Forsters a...
07/07/2010

Forsters recruits five new lawyers to property team

Forsters has completed the recruitment of five new lawyers to its market leading property team. Peter Selwyn and Ben Brayford, who both qualified in 2007 join Forsters after working at Mayer Brown and Denton Wilde Sapte respectively. Both have ...
07/07/2010

Emergency Budget 2010

Billed as "tough but fair", the Coalition’s first Budget sets out the first steps towards balancing the UK’s enormous structural deficit by 2016.  The measures announced by the Chancellor were not as hard on private individuals as might have ...
24/06/2010

Forsters supports Bush Theatre

 Forsters is delighted to announce its sponsorship of London's Bush Theatre at its Art Antiques London First Night Party today. For nearly forty years, The Bush Theatre has pursued its vision of "risk,discovery and entertainme...
09/06/2010

Forsters supports Centrepoint's award winning garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Forsters-sponsored garden presented by the homeless charity Centrepoint won a  Bronze Lindley award last week for exhibits of special scientific or educational interest.  The garden demonstrated how superfoo...
02/06/2010

Forsters' leasehold enfranchisement team highly commended in News on the Block awards

Forsters has been highly commended in the category London Solicitors of the Year in the News on the Block awards. The News on the Block awards highlight excellence and professionalism amongst enfranchisement and right to manage pro...
01/06/2010

Forsters supports Centrepoint's garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Forsters is sponsoring the garden presented by the leading homeless charity Centrepoint at RHS Chelsea Flower Show from 25-29 May 2010. The garden demonstrates how superfoods are vital for healing and health, and will showcase the work c...
25/05/2010

Forsters acts on sale of 98 Kensington High Street

Forsters has acted for longstanding client, The Trustees of The Phillimore Kensington Estate, on the sale of 98 Kensington High Street for £3.65m reflecting a net initial yield of 3.99%.  This followed the acquisition of an int...
24/05/2010

Forsters succeeds in landmark Court of Appeal ruling

Forsters' Natasha Rees has succeeded in winning a landmark decision relating to the assessment of rent under the Housing Act 1988. On 27 April 2010 the Court of Appeal gave judgment in an appeal brought by a tenant against a d...
29/04/2010

Forsters acts on Next letting

Forsters has acted for longstanding client Moorfield on its letting of 22,000 sq ft of shop space to fashion retailer Next. Next is to open a store in Moorfield’s Cornmill Shopping Centre in Darlington at 12-16 Northgate. The Northgate space was ...
27/04/2010

Forsters acts on Mirabaud relocation to Grosvenor Place

Howard Gill, Head of Commercial Property at Forsters LLP, acted for longstanding client, stockbroker Mirabaud Pereire Holdings Limited, which has taken an assignment of a lease from Capital International Limited of 29,350 sq ft at 33 Grosvenor Pla...
19/04/2010

Four new partners for Forsters

Forsters today announces the appointment of four new partners with effect from 1 April. This brings the total number of partners at Forsters to 41. Commenting on these appointments, Forsters’ Managing Partner Paul Roberts said: “These appoin...
31/03/2010

Budget 2010

On Wednesday 24th March Alistair Darling made his Budget speech to the House. Despite incorporating an amusing reference to Belize, it was a low-impact event with core tax rates changing very little. Contrary to some of the more pessimistic predic...
26/03/2010

Charities - Budget News

In his Budget on 24 March, the Chancellor announced important extensions to charity tax relief.  Following the European Court of Justice decision in the case of Persche –v- Finanzamt Lüdenscheid, a change in UK law regarding the tax treatment...
25/03/2010

Real Estate - Budget News

The Spring Budget 2010 was perhaps not as revolutionary as some people had anticipated. The Budget Deficit has not been plugged by either a 3% income tax hike or a dramatic increase in VAT up to either 21% or 25% or other politically damaging meas...
25/03/2010

Forsters Real Estate Group at MIPIM 2010

Forsters will be fielding a team of five Real Estate partners at MIPIM 2010 who can be contacted on the following numbers: Tuesday 16 March  - Friday 19 March Matthew Swainston  +44 (0) 7901 940579 Andrew Crabbie +...
15/03/2010

Forsters acts for LXB Retail on debut purchase

Forsters has acted for AIM listed LXB Retail on its first acquisition. The group, which floated in October last year with an initial offering of £110m, has purchased the long leasehold interest of two existing retail assets and a develo...
10/03/2010