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Paymaster & Escrow Services

June 23, 2025 By HA Law

At HA Law, we provide highly trusted Paymaster and Escrow services designed to support clients engaged in complex, high-value transactions of £1 million or more. These services are tailored to meet the needs of private clients, financial institutions, and corporate entities requiring secure, compliant, and confidential handling of funds across jurisdictions.

Acting as an independent legal intermediary, HA Law ensures that all parties meet their contractual obligations before any funds are released. Our role as Paymaster is to safeguard the transaction process by verifying terms, managing disbursements, and maintaining complete regulatory transparency.

What sets us apart is not just the precision of our legal oversight, but the uncompromising standards we apply to every transaction:

  • Escrow and holding accounts are maintained only with internationally recognised Tier 1 banks, providing clients with the highest level of financial security.
  • Our Escrow Agent is listed on the London Stock Exchange, further reinforcing our credibility, accountability, and commitment to regulatory excellence.
  • We employ full AML and KYC procedures on all parties and funds involved, ensuring every transaction is compliant with UK and international law.

Whether facilitating a major investment deal, real estate acquisition, gold bullion transaction, or joint venture, our clients rely on us for:

  • Total transparency throughout every stage of the transaction
  • A professional and confidential approach, backed by decades of legal expertise
  • Secure, traceable disbursements aligned precisely with deal terms
  • The peace of mind that comes from working with a regulated, independent law firm

At HA Law, we understand that in high-stakes financial dealings, trust is everything. Our Paymaster and Escrow services are designed to eliminate risk, protect client interests, and deliver the highest standards of professionalism, discretion, and legal protection.

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Property

June 15, 2016 By HA Law

We provide a property service which caters for UK and foreign investors, developers, funders and occupiers. We have experience in the acquisition, disposal, financing, development, letting and ongoing management of high value commercial and residential properties.

We act in the sale and purchase of high value residential property.

We have an array of clients with property interests including access to land for development across Europe and we are able to provide prefabrication and design expertise for modular construction for offices, accommodation blocks and individual units.

Areas of Residential Property expertise include:

  • Agricultural and Landed Estates
  • Claw-back and pre-emption agreements
  • Conditional agreements
  • Conveyancing
  • Easements and covenants
  • Landlord and Tenant
  • Leasehold enfranchisement
  • Mortgaging and remortgaging
  • Offshore financing for property transactions
  • Options to purchase

Areas of Commercial Property expertise include:

  • Acquisitions and disposals
  • Asset management
  • Authorised guarantee agreements
  • Commercial and residential development
  • Corporate occupiers
  • Deeds of variation
  • Easements
  • Freehold conveyances
  • Housing
  • Investment
  • Joint ventures and profit-share agreements
  • Landlord and tenant
  • Leasehold conveyances
  • Licences
  • Option and pre-emption agreements
  • Overage and clawback agreements
  • Regeneration projects
  • Rent deposits
  • Restrictive covenants
  • Secured lending
  • Security documentation
  • Stamp duty land tax and VAT
For further information, please email info@ha-law.co.uk or telephone 020 7788 7465 to speak to a HA Law Partner.

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Private Client

June 15, 2016 By HA Law

We act for individuals, families, estates, trusts, family businesses, educational establishments, museums and charities.

We aim to build long term relationships with clients and for families these often span several generations. A key feature of the way we work is that partners have regular and direct involvement with clients. We advise on a wide range of issues that may affect our clients.

A core element of our work is helping clients to preserve and manage their wealth for their own benefit and for that of future generations.

We act for both UK based and non UK based clients.

Areas of Private Client expertise include:

  • Cross-border issues
  • Lasting Powers of Attorney
  • Estate administration
  • Grants of probate
  • Inheritance tax planning
  • Letters of administration
  • Probate matters
  • UK trusts and related tax advice
  • Wills and codicils
For further information, please email info@ha-law.co.uk or telephone 020 3882 0730 to speak to an HA Law Partner.
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Corporate Law

June 15, 2016 By HA Law

Our corporate law department has the expertise to undertake complex transactions and has a breadth and depth of experience to offer bespoke value-added advice.

We offer a team of smart, skilled and driven legal professionals, whose experience and expertise encompass the full range of corporate work for clients ranging from individual entrepreneurs and start-up businesses, to large private and publicly traded corporations, to institutions. HA Law’s corporate experts can provide a full range of advice to clients on UK and international corporate law matters.

Our expertise includes:

  • Angel investment
  • Banking and Finance
  • Capital restructuring and re-organisations
  • Company formations
  • Corporate finance
  • Directors’ duties
  • Financial services
  • Funds
  • Joint ventures
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Non-disclosure agreements
  • Partnership agreements
  • Sale and purchase of assets
  • Sale and purchase of shares
  • Secured and structured debt financing
  • Shareholder agreements
  • Venture capital
For further information, please email info@ha-law.co.uk or telephone 020 3882 7030 to speak to an HA Law Partner.

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Commercial Law

June 15, 2016 By HA Law

Our corporate and commercial departments work closely together regularly. This allows us to leverage expertise for a number of areas and apply this to the case at hand.

We advise on general commercial contracts as well as technology contracts (licensing and development agreements), distribution arrangements, franchising and outsourcing. We have a talented team of lawyers who specialise in understanding the detail of these commercial agreements.

Our expertise includes:

  • Advertising and marketing
  • Agency and distribution
  • Collaboration agreements
  • Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
  • Consultancy agreements
  • Exploitation agreements
  • Framing agreements
  • Franchising
  • Heads of terms/memoranda of understanding
  • Joint ventures agreements
  • Lease, hire and maintenance agreements
  • Logistics agreements
  • Manufacture, purchase and supply
  • Option agreements
  • Outsourcing
  • Partnership agreements
  • Releases, clearance advice and chain of title reports
  • Reseller agreements
  • Sponsorship
  • Sports
  • Strategic alliance agreements
  • Terms of business
For further information, please email info@ha-law.co.uk or telephone 020 3882 0730 to speak to an HA Law Partner.

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