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Stephen Manson

Consultant

A Consultant with our Real Estate practice, Steve acts for public and private landowners, developers and investors and helps bring forward complex sites for development including through joint ventures.

Steve is a Consultant in our Real Estate group and was formerly a Partner. As a Partner, he led the Development practice in London and the Regeneration practice nationally.

He has 28 years’ experience advising private sector, public sector and investor clients on mixed-use developments, joint ventures and development investments. Steve is experienced in drafting, negotiating and analyzing all types of legal documentation including conditional sale contracts, joint venture and collaboration agreements, acquisition agreements, development agreements and complex agreements for lease. Working with the public sector has brought a strong understanding of procurement law, state aid and best consideration/fiduciary duties.

Client feedback cites Steve as being “clever, commercial, concise”.

Steve's work includes:

  • advising clients on estate structuring issues for large scale mixed-use developments
  • working on a large-scale government asset disposal to the private sector
  • lead partner on the redevelopment scheme for a major site in Vauxhall, London
  • lead partner for a London regeneration authority on the development of large-scale mixed-use scheme in East London
  • acting on the acquisition of London or regional development assets and provision of development funding, advising on the investment of circa £300 million across five schemes
  • advising a Saudi investor on the redevelopment of a listed asset in London for a £400 million residential scheme
  • advising a Middle Eastern bank on the redevelopment of distressed retail assets in Luxembourg
  • advising a private sector regeneration company on the ten-party joint venture agreement for the redevelopment of a former MOD site; the strategic site delivered over 2,000 residential units and was implemented through an LLP arrangement which included the local authority
  • LLB (Hons) Bristol University, 1987-1990
  • Law Society Finals with Honors, Bristol Polytechnic, 1990-1991
Stephen Manson

Consultant

Stephen Manson

Consultant

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