Catrin is a Principal Associate in our Real Estate team. She works with both public and private sector client and has a particular focus on clients in the education sector.
Catrin has vast experience in all aspects of commercial property but focuses on owner/occupier, planning and development work.
Catrin has significant experience in dealing with educational institutions, including advising on Charities Act and governance requirements in land acquisitions and disposals. She represented Bridgend College on the £30million development of their STEAM Academy, which won the “Inspiring Learning Spaces” award at the Education Building Wales Awards 2023, and is currently working on Bridgend College’s £60million town centre campus development.
Her key clients include Coleg y Cymoedd, Bridgend College and University of South Wales.
Expertise
- Landlord and Tenant
- Education
- Development
- Corporate Real Estate
Recent work
A nursery in London
Acting for a bilingual nursery in London in taking a leases of Ironmonger’s Hall, London. This involved two leases (one of the ground floor and one of the third floor), two rent deposit deeds and two licences for alterations.
A leading Midlands-based property development company
Advising a leading Midlands based property development company with purchases of land across England for the purpose of residential developments. This included drafting option agreements and conditional contracts (incorporating complex provisions for satisfactory surveys and archaeological investigations prior to completion of the purchases). This also included acting in some of the plot sales to the residential purchasers once the developments were complete.
A Welsh further education college
Assisting a Welsh further education college in relation to the development of a new STEAM academy. This included reviewing title documents, ordering and reviewing search results and drafting a report on title. This project recently won the “Inspiring Learning Spaces” award at the Education Building Wales Awards.
A Welsh university
Advising a Welsh university on the surrender of a lease, ensuring various consents were obtained in accordance with the university’s governance and statute in relation to higher education institutions.
A marketing company
Acting for a marketing company granting a sublease to the current occupier.
A client’s long leasehold interests
Assisting with a client’s purchase of long leasehold interests as part of a wider transaction with a view to developing a large site. Assisting from the serving of an option notice to purchase the site, which involved a legal charge, licence to assign and a sider letter dealing with the VAT position, to the conclusion of the matter.