Drafting Business Leases

Advice on the drafting of commercial leases is provided by this practical handbook. It explains the legal reasons behind drafting choice and discusses different methods of dealing with major obligations found in commercial leases, striking a balance between the interests of landlord and tenant.

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Drafting Business Leases is an ideal companion for the hard-pressed practitioner, addressing the issues that arise during the drafting and negotiation of leases in a practical fashion. By concentrating on contentious issues, and by examining drafting issues from both landlords' and tenants' perspectives, it can be relied on for quick answers throughout a negotiation. The text is complemented by an extensive range of full precedents, and supported by specimen clauses which offer drafting solutions to difficult problems. * User-friendly manual combining expert legal analysis with practical drafting solutions * Highly targeted approach, focusing on the most contentious aspects of lease drafting * Includes a full set of precedents with comprehensive advice on wording specific clauses * New edition incorporates the wide-ranging implications of recent environmental legislation and the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999