Daniel Woodcock

I am a Partner in the Commercial Property Department at Butcher & Barlow’s Gadbrook Park office. I specialise in a wide variety of commercial property matters and have worked in commercial property throughout my career, qualifying as a Solicitor in 2002.

During a varied career, I have worked for international, national, regional and local law firms, together with commercial boutiques.  I am a friendly and approachable commercial property ‘all-rounder’ with sixteen years’ post-qualification experience.  I have broad experience in a very wide range of commercial property matters but I possess particular expertise in:

• the disposal and acquisition of all types of commercial property;
• dealing with all types of commercial and retail leasing, acting for both landlords and tenants;
• residential and commercial development work;
• property investment transactions;
• commercial landlord and tenant matters;
• real estate re-structuring work and distressed property transactions; and
• delivering commercial property support work on corporate transactions.

During the course of my career, I have acted for a very broad range of clients including commercial landlords and tenants, residential and commercial developers, banks and other lenders, property investors, landed estates, housing associations, charities, manufacturing and industrial concerns, a broad range of trading companies, from small start-ups to fully listed PLCs, local authorities, schools and colleges, sports and social clubs, IT and technology companies, pension trustees, freight hauliers, waste-processing operators and a broad range of high net worth individuals.

In terms of career highlights:

• The largest single transaction which I have been involved in was the sale of a property portfolio for administrators for £660m which was one of the largest commercial real estate transactions in the UK in 2008/2009.
• During the course of my career, I have acted for residential developers on-site acquisitions with an aggregate value of well in excess of £100m.
• I appear in the Legal 500 as a Recommended Lawyer and in the 2019 edition was described as ‘first-rate’.

In addition to being admitted as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, I have also been admitted as a Lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, although I do not currently maintain a practising certificate in NSW.

Outside of work, my interests include history, travel, fine art, criminology, rock music, fell-walking, astronomy and enjoying the experience of being a father to three energetic young children!

Legal Insights by Daniel

Mancunian Springs: Press release

Changing Times – Time to act and time for changes?

How to break – right

Changing Gears – How landlords and tenants can work together to mutual advantage during the coronavirus crisis

Temporary ban on commercial tenant evictions announced by the Government

Non-forfeiture of commercial leases under the Coronavirus Act 2020 – some questions answered