Matthew Webb

Partner – Commercial Property

About Matthew

Matthew is a Partner and specialises in Commercial Property transactions. He joined the firm in April 2023.

Matthew is instructed by a range of property investors and occupiers including companies, charities and individuals and has previously worked in the London office of a global law firm as well as in-house for a property investment company.

Matthew’s expertise and how he can help you

Matthew has 10 years’ experience advising clients on all aspects of their commercial property requirements, including:

• Commercial leases (acting for landlords and tenants).
• Co-working and flexible workspace agreements and licences (for both owner operators and corporate occupiers).
• Freehold and leasehold acquisitions and disposals (by private treaty and auction).
• Real estate elements of corporate transactions (advising on the property aspects of the acquisition of shares in a trading business or property holding company).
• Portfolio and/or investment acquisitions and disposals (including commercial and mixed-use property).
• Asset management (including elements of placemaking as well as landlord and tenant matters such as re-gearing leases, licences for alterations and licences to assign/underlet).
• Advising on real estate finance matters (e.g. advising borrowers on the property elements of their finance arrangements).

Recent experience

• Acting on the agreement for lease and lease arrangements for a global satellite and telecommunications provider in Central London.
• Special counsel to a European bank on their global real estate portfolio and opening of new offices.
• Acting on the acquisition of a £1.5m head office for a client in Crawley, West Sussex and subsequent intragroup lease and financing.
• Acting for an advertising agency on their head office lease in Central London.