About
Chris Picardo is a partner in the Commercial Property team specialising in transactional property work and property management advice. Chris advises investors, developers, business occupiers and individuals on a variety of commercial property transactions including acquisitions, disposals, property finance, the negotiation of business leases and portfolio management. Chris is regarded by a number of clients as a member of their team. He adds value for those clients by retaining a knowledge of and an interest in their portfolio of investments, and their business needs, so that he can efficiently see ways to get results for them.
Transactions
Recent projects have included the letting and management of City office and mixed use investment buildings; the acquisition of a brownfield site and subsequent development and letting as a retail park; the sale of a hotel business coupled with the grant of a lease to a national hotel chain and working on the acquisition of an investment bank’s London headquarters by an offshore investor. These transactions have been in an economic climate which makes Chris’s positive attitude a useful approach which has served his clients well.More...
Chris graduated in Law from the University of Reading and studied the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law in Guildford.Chris was admitted as a solicitor in 1999 and joined Carter Lemon working in the Commercial Property team.
In his free time Chris enjoys reading, running, film and travel abroad, more recent destinations including Peru, Chile and Argentina and San Francisco.