Emma Medina-Wallace
Director | Leeds
"I have dealt closely with Emma over a number of years on various site acquisitions and numerous associated issues. I have always found Emma to be a very knowledgeable and capable lawyer who, due to her personality and manner of working, is also a pleasure to deal with. She will always look for a sensible and practical solution to any problem and has always given me the comfort that she is doing her very best for us as her client."
Call: 0345 404 1755 Mobile: 0796 744 6216
About Emma
Emma specialises in residential property development and strategic land. She has extensive experience of advising house builders, land owners and promoters on all aspects of residential development projects from beginning to end.
Emma is experienced in the drafting and negotiation of promotion agreements, conditional contracts, options and the full range of additional documentation such as overage, transfers of part and infrastructure obligations. She has also advised on a number of complex transactions, including those involving collaboration between housebuilders, promoters and/or landowners.
Emma is dedicated to providing clients with understandable and commercially focused legal advice, even on the most complex transactions. She likes to find practical solutions to tricky issues and seeing a site coming through the process to deliver much-needed housing.
Contact Emma
Call: 0345 404 1755
Mobile: 0796 744 6216
Notable work & expertise
Recent Work
- Emma acted for a consortium of top-10 house builders on the conditional acquisition of a 1000-plot development site. The site had a range of complex issues including sales overage, development overage, legal charges for deferred payments and rights of way issues involving a deed of release with a neighbouring landowner.
- Emma acted for a regional housebuilder on a collaboration with a promoter on a large SUE. She drafted the contractual collaboration agreement and negotiated the promotion agreement with the landowner. Emma dealt with a number of issues in relation to biodiversity offsetting, restrictive covenants, access and mineral rights which required innovative solutions to conclude the transaction. This has the potential to deliver over 3,000 houses.
- Emma advised on the purchase of a strategic site subject to overage for a consortium of property investors and a promoter. She negotiated a bespoke mining and minerals policy which was necessary to get the transaction through. The site has the potential to deliver over 1,000 homes.
- Emma acts for a national housebuilder on their immediate site acquisitions, usually subject to reserved matters permission being granted and often including works obligations on the seller to provide a serviced site, with legal charges to secure deferred payments. She understands the need to ensure that subsequent plot disposals can be carried out free of the various covenants and legal charges so that the process is as smooth as possible for her client’s sales team.
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