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Albert Buildings, 49 Queen Victoria Street, London, EC4N 4SA

t: 020 7653 1994 e: helen.bissell@hblaw.co.uk w: hblaw.co.uk

Law Firm Providing Specialist Legal Services to the Rail Industry, Public and Retail Sectors

We are a two-partner firm of specialist rail industry Solicitors established in 1997 specifically to provide legal services for rail industry clients.  Our partners are Sara Hollingworth and Helen Bissell, both of whom worked as Solicitors for the British Railways Board before and throughout rail privatisation.  Many of our clients are still from within the rail industry, although we now also provide tailored legal and consultancy services to the wider public sector, commercial and retail sectors.

For 25 years, the firm and both partners have been recognised as 'Leaders in their Field' in the UK-wide Transport: Rail section of Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession.   We have been named as Railway Law Firm of the Year in England 2021 by Corporate INTL Magazine in their annual Global Awards and Railway Law Firm of the Year in the United Kingdom 2021 by Global Law Experts. Read more about us

SERVICES

Rail

• New stations and rail halts and bringing them into operational use
• Procuring train service to new station or rail halt 
• Station and depot leasing
• Station and depot access arrangements
• Station and depot enhancement, redevelopment and expansion
• Network Rail's Managed Stations, including Station Change
• Statutory liability for heritage ex-railway land and structures
• Objecting to CPOs affecting operational property
• Rail infrastructure enhancement projects
• Regulatory and licensing issues
• Negotiating, drafting and advising on commercial rail contracts
• Franchise and Concession Agreements
• Acquisition, disposal and leasing of  land for operational and non-purposes
• Advice on the interface with London Underground
• Station trading

 

Retail

• Acquisition of existing leases, negotiation of new leases and lease renewals for both Landlords and Tenants of units on railway stations, in shopping centres and on the high street
• All aspects of drafting and negotiating retail leases
• Interpretation and the implications of lease terms, including break clauses and rent review procedures
• Superior title investigation
• Admin office leases

 

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