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Matter 10 · Development · Client mandate

A seaside development, run end to end for a client.

Not every development is our own. Here the practice is general counsel to a client developer’s seaside scheme — from the company and the land, through the sales and the contracts of sale, to the distribution of profits.

Parties
Client developer / unit buyers
Scope
Formation → acquisition → sales → distribution
Status
Ongoing mandate
Practice
Development · client mandate

The brief.

A client developer engaged the practice as standing counsel to a seaside residential scheme — not for a single step, but for the life of the project. The mandate runs the full arc: forming the holding company, acquiring the land, and then carrying the development all the way through to its end.

Once built, a development becomes a sales operation and then a distribution exercise — reservation agreements, contracts of sale unit by unit, and finally the allocation of profits among the people who funded it. The firm provides the continuous legal spine under all of it, and the day-to-day administrative and ongoing support the developer relies on.

It is the clearest example of how the practice acts for third-party developers exactly as it does on its own account — start to finish, one office across every stage.

Outcome.

The scheme runs under a single, continuous legal mandate — acquisition, build, sales and distribution handled in one place — with the developer freed to build rather than to chase paperwork.

The relationship continues across the developer’s pipeline.

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