Reviews, new leases, renewals, licences to assign, underlet and alter, deeds of variation and surrender. Drafted and negotiated remotely by an SRA-regulated solicitor, with the fee fixed in writing before anything starts.
Handled entirely in writing. No hearings, no meetings, no attendance required.
Written reply within 24 hours. Trademarks filed within 48 hours of instruction. Documents in days, not weeks. Never "3 to 5 business days" just to hear back.
| Item | What it covers | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Lease review & risk report (tenant or landlord) | Full markup of the draft lease plus a plain-English report on repair, rent review, break, alienation and guarantee risk, with recommended amendments. | from £750 |
| New lease or renewal, settled to agreed form | Heads of terms to agreed final form: terms structured, drafted in negotiation and settled with the other side, with an authorised conveyancing solicitor instructed for execution and Land Registry formalities where the law requires. | from £1,450 |
| Negotiated through to completion | The whole transaction managed: negotiation, agreed form, and completion coordinated with the instructed authorised solicitor handling the reserved execution and registration steps. | from £2,450 |
| Licence to assign, underlet or alter, advised and negotiated | Consent terms advised and negotiated with the landlord or tenant to agreed form; the licence deed itself executed via an instructed authorised solicitor where required. | from £850 |
| Variation or surrender, advised and negotiated | The commercial terms advised and negotiated to agreed form; the deed itself executed via an instructed authorised solicitor where required. | from £850 |
| Licence to occupy, drafted or reviewed | Short term occupation without granting a tenancy: exclusivity, termination, and the drafting that keeps it a licence rather than a lease by accident. | from £550 |
| Heads of terms, drafted or reviewed | Get the commercial deal right before the lease is drafted; the cheapest point to win every later argument. | from £450 |
Bespoke and urgent matters outside the schedule: £650 per hour, capped estimates given in advance. Corporate retainers from £995/month.
Upload the draft lease or heads of terms through the form or WhatsApp. You get a written fixed-fee quote, usually within hours.
Payment confirms the engagement. A standard review is back within 3 working days; drafting timelines are agreed in the quote.
You receive a marked-up lease and a plain-English risk report. If negotiation is instructed, we deal with the other side's solicitors directly.
A commercial lease is often a five-to-ten-year liability worth many multiples of the legal fee. Repair clauses, rent review mechanisms, break conditions and personal guarantees are where tenants lose money, all of them are negotiable before signature and almost none of them after. A fixed-fee review costs £750; a badly drafted full-repairing obligation can cost tens of thousands.
A lease excluded from the security-of-tenure provisions of Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, so the tenant has no automatic right to renew. The exclusion is only valid if the statutory notice and declaration procedure is followed precisely before the lease is completed, this is exactly the kind of step we handle.
Yes. Lease drafting and review is document work: it does not depend on where the property is, and the whole matter is handled remotely by email and video.
No. Sale and purchase conveyancing involves holding client money, which sits outside this practice by design. Leases, licences, variations and surrenders, everything that is drafting and advice rather than completion monies, is in scope.
A standard review with a written report on the key risks is normally delivered within 3 working days of payment; urgent turnarounds are available at the Counsel tier.
Certain execution and registration steps on lease deeds are reserved legal activities under the Legal Services Act. This practice handles the advisory, drafting-in-negotiation and settlement of terms, and instructs an authorised conveyancing solicitor for those reserved execution and Land Registry steps where the law requires, inside the same fixed fee structure, with the split stated in your engagement letter. You always know who is doing what.
Send a brief outline of your matter. You will receive a personal reply from a solicitor, with a fixed-fee quote where the scope is clear. Payment is taken before work begins; every fee is fixed in writing first.
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