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17 Mar 2026 • Webinar Online
Our Lease Extensions and Enfranchisement team advises leaseholders, freeholders, developers and housing providers on the full range of statutory and voluntary routes for extending leases, acquiring freeholds and managing leasehold rights. As experienced lease extension solicitors, we provide clear, precise guidance that supports confident decision-making in a complex and technical area of law.
We advise on both formal and informal lease extension processes, collective enfranchisement, right of first refusal under Section 5 notices, voluntary arrangements, and strategic estate-wide enfranchisement programmes. Our expertise also covers licence to assign requirements, deeds of covenant, title review, and historic lease issues such as crossover or criss-cross leases.
Drawing on significant experience acting for private leaseholders, resident groups, freeholders and Registered Providers, we deliver commercially aware advice tailored to each client's objectives - whether preserving long-term value, managing statutory risk, or maintaining efficient estate structures.
Our Services
As trusted advisers in lease extension legal advice, lease enfranchisement, and the wider lease law landscape, we support clients across the full range of leasehold issues.
Lease Extensions – Statutory & Voluntary
- Advising on statutory lease extension claims under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993
- Supporting voluntary lease extension negotiations
- Working with valuers on premium calculations and the impact of the 80-year threshold on price and financeability
- Managing the legal and tax aspects of lease extension costs, including SDLT and professional fees
- Setting out clear options and timelines so you can plan ahead rather than reacting to a short lease
Collective Enfranchisement & Freehold Acquisition
- Advising groups of leaseholders on eligibility, participation and the collective enfranchisement process
- Advising on the full leasehold enfranchisement process, eligibility, participation requirements and nominee purchaser structures
- Supporting freeholders with Section 5 notices, including section 5A, 5B and right of first refusal compliance
- Advising on enfranchisement property issues affecting complex blocks, mixed-use buildings and estates where titles and interests overlap.
Assignments, Deeds & Leasehold Management
- Drafting and advising on licence to assign requirements, including lender and landlord conditions
- Helping to prevent and resolve delays caused by assignment consents
- Advising on deeds of covenant, deeds of variation and title rectification where leases no longer reflect how a building is run
- Supporting transactions involving extending a lease, deeds of variation, title rectification and lease law interpretation
- Unpicking ownership and title queries, including crossover and criss-cross leases, and other leasehold anomalies
Disputes, Tribunal & Complex Scenarios
- Advising on disputes around the renewal of leases, valuation disagreements and the refusal of lease extensions
- Supporting applications to the First-tier Tribunal for determinations relating to premium, terms and qualification issues
- Advising on lease extension tribunal advice and steps in contested cases
- Handling complex estate-wide lease extension and enfranchisement projects for freeholders and housing providers
Upcoming event
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Meet the Team
Stavrina Tofallis, Partner, is our Head of Residential Property and leads our Development Sales Team. Stavrina advises on all aspects of residential property transactions, including sales and acquisitions of one-off properties to large acquisition projects as well as deeds of variations, licences and lease extensions.
Tasha Tabannor-Robinson, Senior Associate, specialises in statutory and voluntary lease extensions and collective enfranchisement. She acts for institutional landlords, social housing providers and tenants, advising on notice strategy, statutory compliance, title issues and lease documentation, with a practical understanding informed by experience on both landlord and tenant matters.
Zahid Jussab, Solicitor, specialises in leasehold enfranchisement and freehold acquisitions under the Leasehold Reform Acts, advising registered providers and housing associations on complex property matters.
As trusted leasehold extension solicitors, we provide calm, expert guidance that helps clients navigate technical requirements, manage risk and protect long-term asset value.
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