Matthew Baker
Partner
Matthew heads our Property Dispute Resolution team in England & Wales and helps clients with all types of property related disputes. Matthew acts for government departments, banks and a range of UK and foreign owned companies.
Matthew's experience
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Advised Commercial Estates Group (CEG) on devising and implementing a strategy to mitigate rights of light claims by numerous adjoining landowners to a substantial redevelopment of a key city centre development.
- United Kingdom
- Property investment
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Advised LSE on a contested operation of a break option in a lease. The dispute involved complex issues of law relating to the validity of break notices and was settled on favourable terms at a mediation before trial.
- £700m
- United Kingdom
- Universities & Education
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Advised Premier Inn Hotels on a claim for professional negligence against DWF LLP for the drafting of a sub-letting deal of a Hotel let to the client. The claim involves complex issues of drafting of commercial hotel lease transactions and involves a claim for substantial damages.
- £10m
- United Kingdom
- Real Estate
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Advised Leatham Estates Limited on the defence of an application by Northern Power grid (Yorkshire) PLC to alter the registered title of land owned by Leatham Estates Limited. This claim involves complex issues of land registration practice and procedure and culminated in a 2 day (virtual) hearing in the First Tier Tribunal (Land Registration) in November 2020.
- United Kingdom
- Real Estate
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Advised Solpro Manufacturing on a professional negligence claim against 3 negligent firms of solicitors who acted at different times in dealing with an error in the drafting of the rent review provisions of a lease. The claim involved a successful strategy to mitigate the loss by agreeing and completing a deed of rectification that corrected the drafting error in the Lease with a payment of "back rent" and then seeking further damages from the 3 negligent firms of solicitors.
- United Kingdom
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Acted for landlord Rachel Securities on a a rent review arbitration by which the rent could increase by a factor of six, working with a specialist rent review surveyor.
- United Kingdom
- Real Estate
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Acted for Market Row Limited in one dispute about a lease's service charge provisions, and in another claim for possession of nightclub premises under the Landlord and Tenant's Act 1954's forfieture provisions.
- United Kingdom
- Real Estate
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Acted for Mr and Mrs Crosthwaite on a rights of light claim relating to a proposed redevelopment of Stamford Bridge Stadium by Chelsea Football Club.
- United Kingdom
- Real Estate
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Acted for Costain Oil Gas and Process defending a £1m claim for damages for breach of repairing covenant upon the expiry of three leases at Trident Business Park, Manchester, a claim that was favourably settled in mediation.
- United Kingdom
- Real Estate
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Advising Rachel Securities who are the landlord of Netil House, Hackney. This started as a rent review arbitration where we were successful in increasing the passing rent from £130,000 per annum to £403,000 per annum and then we embarked on a further claim for an injunction to enforce the alterations covenant in the Lease. This claim was settled at a mediation where terms were agreed to vary the terms of the lease as well as a further increase in the passing rent to £700,000 per annum.
- United Kingdom
- Real Estate
Credentials
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1996Qualified - England and Wales
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1994College of Law, York – Legal Practice Course
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1994Joined Pinsent Masons
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1993University of Sheffield – LLB Law
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