Sandy Munroe

Overview of Sandy’s practice

Sandy has just joined George Green as a Partner to work alongside Emma Fawkes-Underwood. Sandy comes with over 35 years of commercial property experience, having worked previously at Eversheds (with our CEO), Gateleys (with Phillip Round) Bevan Brittan (with Sarah Ward),  and Irwin Mitchell (with Kate Hackett) . In Sandy’s most recent role, she acted mainly for first tier lenders, in addition to a number of SMEs and pension funds acquiring and disposing of commercial property. Sandy has a particular passion for development work and has acted for a number of public sector and private organisations, as well as registered providers on their acquisition, investment, and/or disposal of sites/units for development. Sandy also enjoys training and developing junior lawyers.

Sandy’s commercial property experience spreads across all aspects of property from lenders, charities, NHS Trusts, local authorities, leisure and retail landlords, housebuilders, and other private limited companies. Sandy acts for a wide range of clients including investors, lenders, charities, individual and corporate landlords and tenants, pension trustees, and investment funds. Sandy has also dealt with the property aspects of corporate sales and acquisitions and local authority outsourcing of key services . There are few transaction types that Sandy has not dealt with over the years – agricultural being one of the few.

Recent Experience

• Acted on the property aspects of a disposal of a 50-year-old family owned business, with a complex title, including large swathes of unregistered land, as well as a mix of freehold and leasehold titles
• Acting for a company on the acquisition of a new build industrial unit by way of a long leasehold interest on a newly built industrial estate, to include the negotiation of the development agreement and long lease
• Acting for a landowner in connection with a 25 year complex land promotion agreement
• Acting for a private finance lender on a short-term loan for a residential property development project (acquisition and initial development) with complex title and access issues, as well as overage.
• Acting for a tenant of 2 industrial units acquiring the freehold of both by way of a share acquisition of one, with the aid of loan finance, and the acquisition of the other by way of a cash purchase. We also acted for the lender on the corporate acquisition .
• Acting on the property aspects of a corporate acquisition of a business with 12 freehold and 20 leasehold properties.

And, for something else……

Sandy has recently taken up padel, which she thoroughly enjoys. If not on the padel court, Sandy can be found hiking and travelling with her friends or with her grown up children (when she can persuade them to join her!!)