Russell Cooke Putney London 2

About Edward

I advise investors, landlords, tenants and developers on a wide range of commercial real estate transactions. I pride myself on working closely with my clients and taking an innovative and commercial approach informed by an understanding of their businesses and aspirations.

Edward has experience in advising on a broad range of commercial property transactions including landlord and tenant matters, development, investment acquisitions and disposals & real estate finance. 

Edward has acted for a wide variety of clients including institutional investors, major high street retailers, property companies, corporate occupiers and lenders operating within the industrial, office, retail and hospitality & leisure sectors.

He qualified as a solicitor in October 2008 and joined Russell-Cooke in January 2020.

Experience

Edward's experience includes:

  • advising an international oil and gas company on taking a lease of its new UK offices in central London

  • advising a UK based property company on the acquisition of a large multi-let office building in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

  • advising an international hospitality and hotel company on the refinancing of a hotel in West London

  • acting for a Luxembourg based property fund on the acquisition of a large office building in Telford and its subsequent sale

  • acting for a major high street retailer on the acquisition of new stores in Chiswick Park, Greenwich and Cobham 

  • advising the landlords of a portfolio of landmark office and retail buildings in central London on property management and redevelopment     

  • acting for a property company on a number of overage agreements relating to residential development land in Woodgate, West Sussex

  • advising on the real estate elements of the corporate redomiciliation of a number of British Virgin Islands registered companies to Liechtenstein

  • acting for a UK bank on a lease of new headquarters in Chester  

Edward's highlights

News

25.11.2024

Real estate legal news—November 2024

Welcome to the fourth edition of Russell-Cooke’s real estate legal news. We continue to keep updated of legal developments and the trends in the UK real estate world...
Edward Fairweather, Senior associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team.
Edward Fairweather
1 min Read
News

05.11.2024

Data centres in the UK: challenges and opportunities in development

A more specialist planning regime to accommodate data centres could be on the way, which would streamline the process for these developments...
Edward Fairweather, Senior associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team. Hebe Robinson, Trainee in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, dispute resolution team.
Multiple Authors
7 min Read
Edward Fairweather, Hebe Robinson
News

16.05.2024

Real estate legal news—May 2024

Welcome to the third edition of Russell-Cooke’s real estate legal news. We continue to keep updated of legal developments and the trends in the UK real estate world...
Edward Fairweather, Senior associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team.
Edward Fairweather
1 min Read
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