James Armstrong

A Legal 500 UK ‘Recommended Lawyer’ and a partner in our real estate team, James acts for landowners, developers, investors and occupiers on a range of diverse property issues.

James is quoted in Legal 500 UK as being a ‘particularly impressive housebuilding expert’, working with Barratt Homes, Vistry Partnerships, Dere Street Homes and other developers on residential site acquisitions and development.

He is particularly skilled in drafting and negotiating complex commercial property documents, including options, joint ventures and collaboration/ development agreements.

James has acted, and continues to act, for a number of regional and national housebuilders on land acquisition transactions, as well as for registered providers. These transactions include structures involving promotion and option agreements, as well as acquisitions conditional on planning, satisfactory ground investigation, grant funding and other matters, and include both new build housing developments and office to residential conversions. James has acted for registered providers on transactions involving straightforward acquisition/ development by the registered provider, and also on land led back-to-back transactions.