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Jonathan Cantor
Partner

j.cantor@teacherstern.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7242 3191
Fax: +44 (0)20 7197 8040

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PORTRAIT

Expertise:

Litigation and dispute resolution

Jonathan specialises in commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on landlord and tenant and property dispute resolution.

He has a long and successful track record of working with owners, occupiers, managing agents and property professionals in disputes involving commercial property, including the contentious aspects of lease renewals under Part 2 Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.

Jonathan also advises extensively in relation to contract, insolvency and other business-related disputes.

Mediation

Jonathan is a trained mediator and has many years experience of representing clients in the mediation process. He has also written for the Estates Gazette and the Law Society Gazette.

Work for Teacher Stern includes:

• Acting for a landlord in the challenge of its tenant’s exercise of a break clause and its claim for substantial dilapidations
• Acting for a tenant of commercial property in successfully defeating its landlord’s claim for the cost of works undertaken by the landlord re-entering the property under a Jervis v Harris clause.
• Acting for mortgagees in relation to the enforcement of remedies involving a 92 property “buy to let” portfolio
• Acting for shareholders in resisting a claim for €1.75m arising from the purchase of a property portfolio (settled through mediation)
• Preparing a claim to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal for the variation of 364 Leases of residential property