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VIEW ALLLegal 500 2025Ed Cooper, joined the team as a Partner and is specialist in commercial property litigation. He has a wealth of experience, is commercially minded and responsive.
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Edward Cooper advises on a wide variety of contentious real estate matters at all levels of the court hierarchy. His aim is to provide clear strategic advice, founded on good commercial sense.
Edward's clients have included large corporates and pension funds, together with wealthy individuals, whether based within the UK or internationally. He regularly advises on matters including:
- Development advice, including neighbourly matters and rights to light
- Business tenancy renewals
- Lease enforcement, including rent arrears and forfeiture
- Dilapidations claims
- Rent review
- Service charge disputes
- Insolvency matters impacting real estate interests
- Boundary disputes
Edward's approach is to be clear and to the point, even when dealing with the most complex matters. He has recently acted on several major development matters, drawing in several fields of his expertise and requiring a sound strategic approach.
Edward has strong relationships with professionals across the real estate sector, and has spoken at seminars and major events including the annual RICS UK Building Surveying Conference.
Edward is recommended in Legal 500 and is also a member of the Property Litigation Association.
- Representing the administrators of restaurant chains following the pandemic, including Le Pain Quotidien and Ping Pong.
- Advising a national house builder on contested sale contracts for housing schemes in London comprising over 1,300 homes.
- Acting for McLaren on a complex rights of light instruction concerning a large student housing development.
- Representing a pension fund in a complex rent review claim against a major supermarket worth £20 million.
- Acting for a landlord in a contested rent cesser claim following a major terrorist event that was settled at a successful mediation.
- Advising a site provider on a Tribunal claim made against it under the Electronic Communications Code.
- Settling a complex High Court claim concerning a tenant's failure to comply with a building lease of a large mixed-use development site on Notting Hill Gate.
- Advising the seller of a 50+ acre industrial estate on extensive works required to the gas supply network.
Listed as Key Lawyer, Real Estate: Property Litigation, Legal 500 2024
Ed is a keen mountaineer, with worldwide experience and a first ascent in the Himalayas, but these days he's happiest on family walks in the Surrey Hills.