Grant Duranti

Senior Associate

Areas of Expertise

Grant has broad commercial property experience, with particular emphasis on commercial asset management, acquisitions and disposals (both freehold and leasehold), commercial lettings (acting for landlords and tenants in new lettings and lease management) and temporary accommodation (acting for providers of temporary housing and local authority subsidiaries). Grant acts for a variety of clients, ranging from investment clients, registered providers, charities, religious organisations as well as private individuals. With Grant’s background in affordable housing and property development, he is ideally placed to advise on the life cycle of a property and all aspects of Real Estate.

Grant also regularly works with other teams within Devonshires, including:

Insolvency: Acting for liquidators, administrators and trustees in bankruptcy on the sale of property pursuant to court orders
Litigation: Advising clients on title matters which are subject to dispute and effecting transfers of property pursuant to settlements
Prime Residential: Advising clients on residential acquisitions with values of £1m – £5m
Planning: Grant’s background includes all aspects of Section 106, including negotiation, variation and acquisition.
Construction: Advising Registered Providers on access and other rights required to carry out fire remediation works, as well as dealing with decant and access licences to effect them
Corporate: Advising on intragroup transfers as part of corporate restructuring

Experience

Prior to Devonshires, Grant worked as a paralegal at Winckworth Sherwood, specialising in housing regeneration, development and securitisation, before training at specialist property firm Pemberton Greenish.

Education

Grant completed his law degree at Reading University, before undertaking the LPC at the College of Law in Bloomsbury.

Personal

Away from the world of property development, Grant is learning taekwondo, regularly participates in football, swimming and boxing (with varying levels of success) and once took a wicket at the Oval. As a lifelong Leicester City supporter, Grant still doesn’t believe the 2015-16 season really happened.