Have you leased an office space or are you considering renewing your lease? This workshop is a great way to find out how to renew your lease the right way.

It’s quite common for small businesses and entrepreneurs to lease office spaces. Many owners and decision makers make several key mistakes despite this being their second highest expenditure. 

Topics that will be covered:

• Lease renewals
• Premises as part of the business strategy
• What to do if you cannot renew your lease
• Acquiring premises in general

There will be a Q&A at the end of the workshop. 

Presenters: From Chandler Garvey: Joanna Kearvell and Michael Garvey and from Blaser Mills Law: Shona Dunning and Alex Wyatt

Chandler Garvey

Chandler Garvey is one of the leading firms of commercial property consultants in the greater Thames Valley region, with a network of 5 offices in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire.

Joanna Kearvell – Head of Occupier Services at Chandler Garvey

Joanna has over 12 years experience in the commercial property sector including working as a property agent and marketing. Having worked in Bucks for over a decade, Jo is able to bring her knowledge of the property sector and experience in completing transactions plus all the stages in between to the Occupier Services department.

Michael Garvey

Michael Garvey is a Chartered Surveyor and Arbitrator who has specialised in providing private sector commercial property advice in the Thames Valley for the past 30 years.

He is Managing Director of Chandler Garvey, a firm of Commercial Property Consultants with 5 offices across Buckinghamshire and Berkshire.

For the past 7 years Michael has been actively involved in range of private and public sector inward investment initiatives, including being a Board Member of the Buckinghamshire (Thames Valley) Local Enterprise Partnership, Joint Chair of the Connected Counties Broadband Project Board, Chair of the Bucks Digital Infrastructure Group and  Chair and founding Director of Buckinghamshire Business First (created in the post RDA era of 2010) that now has 11,000 business members. 

Blaser Mills Law

Blaser Mills Law is a forward thinking law firm based in Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and London. Consistently recommended by the Legal 500 and Chambers UK, Blase Mills Law offer a Partner-led approach, whereby their aim is to build trusted and long-standing relationships with their clients, through the delivery of high quality legal advice.

Shona Dunning

Shona is a Senior Associate in the Real Estate and Development team with experience of a broad range of commercial property and residential property development transactions, freehold and leasehold acquisitions and disposals, and a variety of landlord and tenant matters.  Having previous experience of working in-house with a pro-active Local Authority, this has enhanced Shona’s ability to take a pragmatic commercial approach to complex transactions, and to quickly gain the trust and confidence of her clients.

Alex Wyatt

Alex is a Senior Associate in the Real Estate and Development team specialising in property litigation. He has dealt extensively with both residential and commercial properties, whether freehold, leasehold or otherwise. He regularly deals with business tenancies and/or end of lease issues such as vacant possession (VP) and dilapidations, advises on litigation issues connected with development sites, such as due diligence, obtaining VP, and identifying the existence of and how to deal with covenants; He has also regularly acted for Housing Associations and Local Authorities.