Transactions

• Purchase through a share deal – clients buying the SPV set up offshore by the developer - of a newbuild £3M flat
• Helping a client with a conditional agreement for lease terminate that in a falling market and renegotiate so the business could stay put but on more acceptable terms
• Purchase by an off-shore company of a City office block let to a blue chip investment bank at a price exceeding £300 million.
  

Career highlights include:

• Stepping into the panel of speakers at a course for which he was understudy – at only 3 years qualified
• Representing most of the sets of barristers chambers at one of the Inns of Court in lease renewals with that Inn
• Purchase of an SW1 development opportunity (offices to flats) by an off shore company at a price exceeding £120M (for a group of clients for whom previous deals were at values ranging from £7M to £220M)

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Rufus combines client focused views of legal issues with more holistic ones. This is clearly visible from his writing (having contributed to many journals and been a co-author of the Landlord and Tenant Factbook) and from his lectures, leading seminars on commercial property issues and being on panels with major course providers.

Asked what he likes most in his work, Rufus will talk of his role as a “trouble-shooter”. He enjoys being asked by clients and colleagues what he thinks about something and trying, with them, to work up structures or strategies achieving a desired result at the lowest sensible cost/ tax-hit/ risk.

Rufus was educated at Reading School, Wadham College Oxford and Chester College of Law, qualifying as a solicitor in 1988.

Outside the office Rufus has a full and active life with commitments to two Christian Churches, family (wife and three children), Royal Bank of Scotland Rugby Football Club (for whom he plays as a second row forward).