Rebecca Mason

Rebecca works with clients to proactively progress negotiations and transactions regarding land and development opportunities to a successful conclusion.

As a partner, Head of Holmes & Hills Solicitors' Corporate and Commercial Department and the firm's lead solicitor regarding development and land matters, Rebecca advises and represents the firm's developer and land-owning clients in their negotiations for sales, acquisitions and in the formation of complex development agreements.

Recognised by the Legal 500

Rebecca is individually recognised by the Legal 500 - an independent directory of the UK's top law firms and solicitors - as a specialist source of legal advice within the region and has been so for several consecutive years.

Specialising in advising developers and consortiums

Rebecca works in partnership with and advises Holmes & Hills Solicitors' developer and land-owning clients, as well as working closely with professional contacts across the region, including land agents, land consultants and land promoters.

Rebecca provides her clients with pragmatic legal advice on their matters, this often surrounding the negotiation and drafting of complex development agreements including option, promotion, pre-emption, joint-venture and consortium agreements.

Rebecca's specialist expertise and experience advising and representing clients across East Anglia, regularly on the other side to national house builders and their magic circle legal counsel, means she is well placed to provide the necessary legal advice, but also pragmatic guidance, developers and land owners require when negotiating and dealing with such parties themselves.

Rebecca's specialist advice and services cover:

• Resolving issues relating to easements
• Resolving issues relating to restrictive covenants
• Negotiating and drafting development agreements - Option, Joint-venture, Pre-emption, Promotion, Consortium
• Development financing
• Protecting a land owner's interest in, and the value of, adjoining land not forming part of a transaction
• Exercising agreements
• Forming and structuring consortiums
• Acquiring land for development
• Disposing of land to a developer
• Matters concerning utilities

Supported by a large team of specialists

In servicing clients, Rebecca is supported by senior solicitors within her own Corporate and Commercial Department, as well as experts from across other specialist departments at Holmes & Hills, including Partners and senior solicitors dealing with matters concerning Construction Law, Planning Law and contentious Property Law.

Rebecca is based at Holmes & Hills Solicitors in Braintree but will soon be based at Holmes & Hills Solicitors' new regional Head Office - the A12 Commercial Hub - in Marks Tey, Colchester.