Sajith Pillai Consultant Solicitor - Residential and Commercial Property
Sajith Pillai qualified as a lawyer from the University of Mangalore, India in 2001 and enrolled as a solicitor in the United Kingdom in 2009. He has been working as a conveyancing solicitor ever since. Sajith specialises in all aspects of conveyancing for both residential and commercial properties.
Sajith’s work mostly comes through recommendations from his clients, agents, and mortgage advisors. His real-world and deal-focused approach allows him to achieve clients' goals in challenging timeframes.
Sajith previously worked as a salaried partner in a Berkshire firm and as an Associate Solicitor in the London office of a Hampshire firm.
Qualifications and professional memberships
- Bachelor of Academic Law (BAL), Mangalore University, India, 1999
- Bachelor of Law (LLB), Mangalore University, India, 2001
- Admitted as an Advocate in India, July 2001
- Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test (QLTT) from BPP Professional Education UK in March 2009
- Admitted as a Solicitor, July 2009
Experience and expertise
Sajith has over 24 years of experience in law. His practice focuses on:
- Advising and assisting with all aspects of buying and selling residential property (freehold and leasehold), including the drafting of contracts, raising and responding to enquiries, investigating title, making relevant searches, exchanging contracts, and attending to the completion of transactions.
- Advising and assisting in relation to the sale or purchase of new build properties.
- Assisting in re-mortgages.
- Advising and assisting with Right to Buy transactions.
- Advising and assisting with transfers of equity.
- Advising and assisting with buying or selling at auction, including the preparation of auction packs.
- Drafting leases and advising as to Deeds of Variation and Rectification.
- Advising and assisting with lease extensions.
- Advising and assisting with the preparation of transfers of part.
- Advising and assisting with commercial property transactions, including acting for landlords or tenants in the grant or acquisition of leases, advising on Head of Terms, drafting leases, sub-leases and assignment of leases, and drafting Rent Deposit Deeds.
- Advising and assisting with the sale of businesses.
Languages
Sajith is fluent in the Indian languages Hindi, and Malayalam and can understand Tamil.
Other activities
Sajith is associated with the local branch of a national charity and is part of local community associations.
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