Home office: Birmingham
Fiona Rendell
Partner
Fiona is a partner in our commercial property team, based in Birmingham. She advises local, national and international retailers, developers, investors, lenders, educational institutions and public sector organisations on acquisitions, disposals, landlord and tenant maters, development projects, secured lending transactions and real estate portfolio management, either as standalone transactions or part of wider commercial deals including corporate M&A and reorganisations.
How Fiona can help you
Fiona regularly advises clients on:
- Commercial property acquisitions and disposals
- Development land transactions
- Landlord and tenant law, including lease grants, renewals and regears
- Commercial leasing and asset management
- Real estate finance and secured lending
- Public sector property
- Licences, easements and covenants
- Property portfolios and property due diligence
Who Fiona works with
Fiona’s clients include:
- Owner managed and family businesses
- International retailers
- Public sector bodies and police authorities
- High street banks, lenders and investors
- Charities and religious organisations
- Insolvency practitioners
- Dentists and doctors’ practices
- Care home operators
- Hotel, restaurant and pub and holiday park operators
- Education providers
- Petrol filling station operators
Sector expertise:
Fiona specialises in the following sectors:
- Banking and finance
- Charity and not-for-profit
- Education
- Energy, infrastructure and natural resources
- Healthcare
- Later living
- Public sector
- Real estate investment and development
- Retail and leisure
- Start-ups and high growth business
- Technology
What Fiona’s clients say
Recent examples of my work
- Acting for a police authority selling a portfolio of properties by various means including auction and private treaty including some for redevelopment for residential accommodation conditional upon obtaining planning permission.
- Acting for one developer client on the purchase of a brownfield site, securing the borrowing necessary to fund the client’s construction of 4 industrial units and then leasing to an end occupier and subsequent refinancing of the completed site which will now become an investment asset for them.
- Acting for a client on the purchase of three petrol filling stations and an eight premises gas storage and sales business.
- Acting for a retail client on the acquisition of multiple brownfield sites conditionally on satisfactory planning permission, topographical services and environmental surveys and premises licensing conditions.
- Acting for a high street bank on dozens of secured loans to borrowers for the purposes of acquisitions and refinances of wide ranging commercial properties from industrial and manufacturing, storage and distribution, healthcare facilities and multi-let office blocks.
- Selling property on behalf of a liquidator at auction with a short turnaround time to maximise the return for creditors.
Articles by Fiona
Commercial property
Who really owns the family business premises?
For many family businesses, the premises they operate from is central to both their legacy and their day-to-day operations. Yet when it…