About

Provided by DAC Beachcroft LLP

Our Litigation team is an integrated part of our wider Real Estate practice, which provides a multi-disciplinary service to UK and overseas organisations whose property assets are at the heart of their business. With over 135 lawyers we have one of the UK's largest dedicated Real Estate practices. We are ranked in "The Lawyer's" top ten real estate lawyers.

Our litigators work in three main areas: residential, retail centres and large commercial occupiers, for regional and national clients; including developers, institutions and funds. We address all forms of dispute resolution including court proceedings, mediation, arbitration and expert determination.

The nature of our work concerns:

  • Asset management disputes
  • Lease renewals and enforcements
  • Interpretations
  • Forfeiture action
  • Dilapidations
  • Restrictive covenants
  • Rights of Light
  • Service charge Disputes
  • Insolvency
  • Vacant possession

Chambers Review

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Real Estate Litigation - London (Firms)

5
Band 5

What the Team is Known For

DAC Beachcroft offers a broad array of property litigation services, often to clients in the construction and residential development sectors. The team is notable for its strength in dilapidations as well as restrictive covenant disputes and right to light cases. It also represents property portfolio companies and private clients in all aspects of landlord and tenant law.

Work Highlights

  • DAC Beachcroft advised Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in relation to a lease renewal of a key site under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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5
Guy Knight
5
Band 5

Guy Knight leads the London property litigation team at DAC Beachcroft. He brings years of experience acting on behalf of housebuilders and residential developers and maintains an excellent reputation in this space.

Guy has an incisive mind and significant intellect but remains down to earth and practical.

Guy has been accessible and knowledgeable at all times throughout the dispute, with the rare ability to lead a specialist team every step of the way.

He is a really bright guy and one of those lawyers who can analyse things in a very detailed way.

Ranked Lawyers at
DAC Beachcroft LLP

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London (Firms)

Real Estate Litigation

5
Guy Knight
5
Band 5

Members

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Guy Knight

Joanna Christou

Jonathan Smith

Clients

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Axa

Crest Nicholson

NHS Trusts

Persimmon

Taylor Wimpey

Westfield