The underlying foundation of Vincent Brown’s specialist experience lies in the more ‘traditional’ area of the co-ordination and management of effective and ‘future-proof’ due diligence and risk avoidance in the context of the redevelopment and commercial transaction of brownfield development land.
In providing this service Vincent Brown combines his 25 years’ contract drafting experience with his specialist EU and UK pollution and industrial law knowledge, to cut through the complexity of brownfield site due diligence, identify what really matters, structure effective contractual liability shields and transfers, including insurance, and above all ensure a ‘readiness for sale’ package which is institutionally acceptable for future investors.
- Pre-acquisition ‘heads of terms’ guidance + drafting
- Technical data review and full legal risk assessment
- Negotiation support for developer with third parties
- Funders
- Land vendors
- Local authorities planning conditions / section 106 agreements
- Environment Agency + SEPA
- Professional team – engineers, environmental
consultants etc - Remediation contractors
- Works contractors
- Insurance brokers
- Purchasers / investors
- Tenants
- Data Room preparation – ‘readiness for sale’
- A – Z specialist data room template supplied and adapted to your transaction
- Full specialist contracts package:
- Funding agreements – contamination risk minimisation
- Site assembly / land acquisition contracts – contamination risk minimisation
- Professional team contracts :
- Site investigation contractors
- Civil + specialist engineers
- Environmental + works validation consultants
- Remediation contracts
- Contamination risk allocation in civil engineering + other works contracts
- Environmental liability insurance contracts
- Building and sale/investment contracts – contamination risk allocation
- Investment sale contracts – contamination risk allocation
- Commercial leases – contamination risk allocation
- EIA legal review