Lewison’s Drafting Business Leases 8th ed

Lewison’s Drafting Business Leases is an ideal companion for all property practitioners whether drafting, negotiating, interpreting or litigating commercial lease clauses in the current market.

If you’re a lease draftsman, you’ll find the new edition addresses the key issues during drafting and negotiation with a practical approach. Contentious issues that can arise, or that you should consider, are focused on, as well as examining drafting concerns from both landlords’ and tenants’ perspectives.

For litigators on lease renewal and in contractual disputes, you’ll have an adviser’s guide to the considerations behind the drafting, and to the lessons the case law teaches on lease interpretation.

The text is complemented by specimen clauses which offer drafting solutions to difficult problems.

• User-friendly manual combining authoritative legal analysis with practical drafting solutionsExplains the recent legislative and case law developments
• Reflects both landlords’ and tenants’ concerns and respective bargaining positions
• Highlights the most contentious topics making clear what will be the focus of negotiations and likely dispute
• Gives direction on the court’s approach on interpretationProvides guidance on drafting, including sample clauses, to help ensure leases accurately represent clients’ interests
• Clarifies what must be included and what each clause entails
• Explains and applies relevant Codes of Practice

What’s New:-

The new 8th edition is comprehensively revised and updated reflecting recent topical issues, including:-

• Interpretation re-visited
• Making the most of airspace – Feed in Tariffs, etc
• Break clause complianceRent review and turnover rent
• Virtual assignments
• The impact of competition law on user and assignment
• Guarantors AGAs and releases
• Green leases and understandings
• The Service Charge Code and current trends