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Nicky Cleightonhills

Nicky Cleightonhills

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Nicky is one of our partners, specialising in corporate and commercial real estate law.

Nicky has been recognised by The Legal 500 for four consecutive years for her wide-ranging experience across real estate transactions.

She advises on acquisitions and disposals of property and companies, development projects, secured lending, joint ventures and complex commercial arrangements, including options, promotion and overage agreements.

Her practice has a particular focus on development work, where she provides commercially driven advice to developers, investors and lenders throughout the lifecycle of a project.

This includes structuring transactions, managing risk and understanding the legal and practical considerations of large-scale and mixed-use developments.

Nicky also has extensive expertise in enfranchisement matters, including statutory lease extensions, collective enfranchisement and rights of first refusal.

In recent years, she has developed a niche specialism in rooftop and airspace developments, advising on title structuring, lease arrangements and secured lending in this evolving sector.

Known for her solutions-focused approach, Nicky combines technical expertise with clear, commercially focused advice.

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Recent work

Some of Nicky’s recent work includes:

  • Acting for a developer in a joint venture with a freehold landowner to facilitate rooftop development and share sale proceeds between the parties.
  • Acting for developers acquiring options over airspace leases and development rights to construct additional storeys on residential blocks, including negotiating overage arrangements.
  • Advising a group of leaseholders on strategies to oppose the development of airspace above their building, including analysing planning permissions against lease rights and advising on injunctive relief for derogation from grant.
  • Acting for a landowner and their development finance provider on the structuring of an airspace development, including airspace leases, scaffolding licences, development agreements and joint venture arrangements.
  • Acting for a developer on the acquisition of the freehold of a residential block, including advising on aligning planning permission with existing lease rights and compliance with rights of first refusal.
  • Advising a senior debt provider in relation to development finance for an airspace scheme, including protecting the respective interests of borrower and lender on the grant and disposal of an airspace lease within a mixed-use development.
  • Advising leaseholders in relation to a collective enfranchisement claim to acquire the freehold of their building with the objective of preventing airspace development.
  • Advising a freeholder on the development potential of rooftop and airspace above a residential block, including structuring the transaction to mitigate risk of breach of landlord covenants.

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