Kevin Sturgeon
Associate, Commercial Property
Kevin has experience in managing a wide variety of commercial property matters as well as particular expertise advising on acquisitions/sales and property factoring/management. Kevin also has experience advising on property finance acting for both borrowers and lenders. On the lender side, Kevin regularly acts for our asset-backed lenders. On the borrower side Kevin has acted on behalf of borrowers in the refinancing and private placement transactions involving housing developments valued between £5m – £65m.
Kevin also regularly advises charitable/not-for-profit organisations, and has acted for many large public sector and charitable bodies.
Kevin has a particular focus on community purchases and has been instructed on a number of Community Asset Transfers throughout Scotland, including for the purchasers in the first set of Community Asset Transfers from Glasgow City Council. Kevin’s Community Asset Transfer portfolio also includes an Edinburgh based community arts initiative, a north-east health and wellbeing facility, local agriculture and horticulture facilities, and local community groups.
Kevin also has an extensive knowledge of property factoring that enables him to assist with factoring queries relating to common parts of development sites and individual tenements or a flat within a tenement. Kevin regularly advises both property factors and homeowners on how to interpret title conditions and the possible options to vary such conditions.
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Recent News & Insights by Kevin
07 October 2024 | Time to read: 3 mins
Ownerless Property Transfer Scheme – The benefits for community bodies
Kevin Sturgeon discusses the new Ownerless Property Transfer Scheme and the benefits available to community bodies.
17 November 2021 | Time to read: 5 mins
Key points of consideration for charities acquiring property
Key points of consideration for charities acquiring property.