Leading commercial property lawyer, Adam Hastie, has joined the Real Estate Department at Schofield Sweeney Solicitors. Adam was previously a Partner at Eversheds and prior to that worked at Addleshaw Goddard. His appointment is the eighth legal appointment by Schofield Sweeney in the past twelve months and reflects the firm’s continuing expansion across both its Leeds and Bradford offices.

Adam has been involved with a number of major property deals across Yorkshire and the north of England, including the £300m Doncaster centre regeneration project for Muse Developments; the development and management of edge-of-town retail parks at Hyndburn and Barnsley for Peel; serviced office developments for Estuary Development and Construction; a mixed use retail and leisure development at St Helen's town centre for CTP; Stadium's development of JJB soccer domes; a large high value office letting at Hammersmith to AOL; the Est Est Est takeover of La Grillade's former premises in Leeds; and the Round Foundry, Holbeck, Leeds development for Igloo. He has also been involved in a number of PFI/PPP projects, including the Hull LIFT and Newcastle and North Tyneside LIFT projects, Wrexham Waste PFI, and Sheffield and Salford Schools PFI Projects.

Adam’s experience encompasses all types of property transactions, including property management, investment and development work. He has helped deliver complex projects involving joint venture and profit share arrangements, detailed site assembly with planning and highways agreements, utility service, infrastructure and construction issues, and phased developments with public funding as well as forward funding from the private sector. He has experience with the retail, leisure, office, health and education sectors, working for public and private bodies as well as joint organisations such as those delivering Project (PFI/PPP) schemes, an area in which Schofield Sweeney has extensive experience.

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