Claire Waring

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Experience

Claire's expertise includes: 

• complex conditional contracts
• fixed and variable price contracts
• option agreements
• promotion agreements
• hybrid agreements
• development agreements
• golden brick contracts
• overage agreements and variations
• landowner collaboration agreements
• land assembly
• equalisation
• joint venture agreements
• escrow agreements
• control strips
• deferred payments and legal charges

Claire has acted for:

• a developer in a tripartite transaction involving the acquisition of a site from Homes England and the development and sale of a proportion of the units to a Registered Provider. The development works were carried out under a building lease with the freehold being transferred in phases at practical completion.
• a developer in a complex multi party conditional acquisition of land surrounding Leamington Spa train station. The transaction involved site assembly and the relocation and development of a new out of town bus station.
• a developer in the multi million pound sale of serviced parcels to two PLC housebuilders.
• a Registered Provider client on the conditional long leasehold acquisition of a landmark vacant office building in Stratford Upon Avon. The site was redeveloped to provide an award winning private rented scheme.
• a Registered Provider client in connection with the conditional acquisition of the section 106 affordable housing on a high profile brown field regeneration site in Swindon. The developer is a building society which is building homes again for the first time in over one hundred years and the scheme attracted national press coverage.
• a Registered Provider client on four separate joint venture agreements with a private developer.

What others say:

• Legal 500 2023: Claire Waring is “excellent - recommended for her vast amount of intellect”
• Chambers UK 2023: “ Very knowledgeable and easy to work with. Claire is able to come up with practical and commercial solutions to often complex situations”
• Legal 500 2022: "Claire Waring has time to explain matters and is always available. She makes you feel like a valued customer"
• Chambers UK 2022: "Claire Waring is approachable, knowledgeable and helpful"
• Legal 500 2020: "Claire Waring helped me through a very complicated property deal and she was excellent. She very much takes the approach of working together and is good at providing strategic advice as opposed to just legal opinions"
• Chambers UK 2020: Clients hold Claire Waring in high regard, noting that "she is responsive and able to explain legal matters in plain English"
• Chambers UK 2015: Claire Waring "doesn't miss anything; she is incredibly focused and an absolute pleasure to work with"
• Chambers UK 2013: Claire Waring "is extremely efficient, she always answers the phone or returns calls, and her advice is accurate and helpful."
• Legal 500 UK 2012: Claire Waring "is an excellent negotiator"

Career

Claire has a degree in Law with French and qualified with City firm Cameron McKenna. In 1999 Claire moved to the Midlands and joined Wragge & Co in Birmingham. From 2004 until 2008 Claire worked in-house with plc housebuilders David Wilson Homes and Bovis Homes. Claire joined Wright Hassall in 2008 and became a partner in 2010.