Dilan joined BLB from London in 2024 and is an Associate Solicitor in our Commercial Property Team.
She advises landlords and investors, business owners, tenants and occupiers, banks and financial institutions, property developers, landowners, and private individuals. Her experience encompasses a broad range of commercial property matters, including:
- commercial landlord and tenant;
- portfolio management; and
- acquisitions/disposals of freehold and leasehold property.
Her transactional experience ranges from small retail units and mixed-used premises to offices and larger industrial units.
Dilan provides her clients with a highly personal service to meet their specific business needs and anticipate their future requirements.
Dual Qualification
Dilan is also a qualified lawyer in Turkey and has been a member of the Istanbul Bar Association since 2016. She is multilingual, speaking fluent Kurdish, Turkish and English.
Areas of Expertise
Among Dilan’s specific areas of expertise are:
- Dealing with commercial acquisition and disposal transactions.
- Advising borrowers and lenders on real estate finance transactions.
- Dealing with the refinancing of larger portfolios of freehold and leasehold properties (both commercial and residential/mixed-use properties).
- Assisting company clients having negative pledges and floating charges and advising them throughout.
- Assisting borrowers with large-scale remortgages and portfolio remortgages and satisfying lenders’ solicitors’ checklists. Reviewing loan documents and financial agreements for property transactions.
- Dealing with all elements of commercial property transactions involving SIPPs.
- Dealing with grants of new leases and assignment of existing ones, surrenders, deeds of variation and licences for alterations.
- Auction sales and purchases.
Recent Transactions
Dilan’s recent transactions include:
- The grant of a new £4 million commercial lease for an international corporation.
- Loans to high-net-worth individuals on high-value residential acquisitions.
- Portfolio re-finance and acquisition of new-build office funding in excess of £9.5 million.
- Advising a borrower in relation to a development term loan facility of £10 million.
- Taking a new lease upon an agreement for lease with one of the largest UK developers. Following the sale, assisting on a grant of an underlease from the headlease for an annual rent of £267,000.
- Acquisition of land subject to planning for the purpose of development.
- Acquisition of a care home, including transfer of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) certificate.
Away from work
Away from work, Dilan loves travelling, experiencing new cultures and keeping active through sports.