Clare Dewar
Edinburgh DL : +44 (0)131 473 5307 F : +44 (0)131 228 1222
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Clare has a wide range of commercial property experience focusing on investment acquisitions and disposals, development work, leasing for landlords and tenants, and advising on property aspects of corporate and cross-border transactions. Clare acts for several pension funds, property investors and a nationally known distillery company.


30.05.2012Business certainty for break options

Break options are a well-established feature of leases, but whereas, in the past, they may have been more of a "nice to have", given the flexibility they bring, their practical importance in recent years has been brought into sharpe…

03.11.2011Energy Performance Certificates - proposals for change

Since 4 January 2009, it has been a requirement in Scotland to obtain an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) for a building when it is sold or rented.  This requirement stems from the EC Directive 2002/91/EC on the Energy Perfor…

30.05.2011Ordinary or extraordinary outcome for repairs dispute?

The recent decision in the Scottish case of Co-operative Insurance Society Limited v Fife Council [2011] CSOH 76 has called into question the ability of Landlords to contract out of extraordinary repairs in FRI (tenant's full repair…