Chris Warenius

Solicitor & Legal Director

Property Development & Planning

I am a senior specialist property development lawyer with particular expertise in residential led mixed-use development and regeneration schemes. I also have considerable experience in student accommodation and in pure commercial sites.

Experience

I advise private and public sector clients on all aspects of the development life cycle from acquisition and site assembly, through financing and the planning process, building, site set-up and sales.

I often work with joint ventures and other collaborative structures and I am experienced in negotiating overage and other profit share agreements.

I have experience of financing arrangements including bank lending and forward funding, acting both for developers and funders.

I frequently advise on how to resolve the issues encountered in development projects including restrictive covenants, rights of light and rights of way.

Career highlights

Advising several local authorities in connection with joint ventures with private sector developers for major regeneration schemes including residential, retail and leisure space each with a value in excess of £100 million;
Advising a syndicate of investors on the site assembly and planning aspects of a 300 plus unit residential site;
Advising a local authority in connection with the development of two luxury residential schemes co-located at redeveloped schools;
Advising a developer on a circa thousand unit, £500 million, mixed use regeneration scheme in London's docklands;
Advising on several forward funded student accommodation schemes worth over £250 million in total;
Advising a hotel developer on the restructuring of its arrangements with a residential developer as part of a mixed use scheme;
Advising a private bank in connection with development funding for the redevelopment of several luxury houses located in London and elsewhere.