Russell Cooke Putney London 2

About Edward

I advise investors, landlords, tenants and developers on a wide range of commercial real estate transactions. I pride myself on working closely with my clients and taking an innovative and commercial approach informed by an understanding of their businesses and aspirations.

Edward has experience in advising on a broad range of commercial property transactions including landlord and tenant matters, development, investment acquisitions and disposals & real estate finance. 

Edward has acted for a wide variety of clients including institutional investors, major high street retailers, property companies, corporate occupiers and lenders operating within the industrial, office, retail and hospitality & leisure sectors.

He qualified as a solicitor in October 2008 and joined Russell-Cooke in January 2020.

Experience

Edward's experience includes:

  • advising an international oil and gas company on taking a lease of its new UK offices in central London

  • advising a UK based property company on the acquisition of a large multi-let office building in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

  • advising an international hospitality and hotel company on the refinancing of a hotel in West London

  • acting for a Luxembourg based property fund on the acquisition of a large office building in Telford and its subsequent sale

  • acting for a major high street retailer on the acquisition of new stores in Chiswick Park, Greenwich and Cobham 

  • advising the landlords of a portfolio of landmark office and retail buildings in central London on property management and redevelopment     

  • acting for a property company on a number of overage agreements relating to residential development land in Woodgate, West Sussex

  • advising on the real estate elements of the corporate redomiciliation of a number of British Virgin Islands registered companies to Liechtenstein

  • acting for a UK bank on a lease of new headquarters in Chester  

Edward's highlights

News

28.03.2024

Connections from Cannes—a recap on MIPIM 2024

Senior associate Edward Fairweather reflects on his time at the MIPIM real estate conference in Cannes from 12-15 March...
Edward Fairweather, Senior associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team.
Edward Fairweather
3 min Read
News

17.11.2023

Overage and clawback on sales of land—considerations for sellers

Senior associate Edward Fairweather discusses the concept of ‘overage’ and the key issues that sellers of land in England and Wales should...
Edward Fairweather, Senior associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team.
Edward Fairweather
6 min Read
News

26.10.2023

Real estate legal news—October 2023

Welcome to the second edition of Russell-Cooke’s real estate legal news. It’s now been six months since we published our inaugural newsletter...
Edward Fairweather, Senior associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team. Richa Arora, Associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team. Pippa Davies, Legal assistant in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team. Alexandra Ground, Partner in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate planning and construction team. Harriet Allsop, Associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, property litigation team.
Multiple Authors
1 min Read
Edward Fairweather, Richa Arora, Pippa Davies, Alex Ground, Harriet Allsop
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