JON LEES
DIRECTOR

Jon is widely regarded as one of the market’s leading lease consultancy experts, advising some of the largest institutional landlords on retail assets across the UK.

In his early career, Jon qualified as a Chartered Surveyor at Colliers CRE in Leeds, before spending eight subsequent years at Cushman & Wakefield LLP in London. Before joining Time Retail Partners, Jon was a Senior Director in CBRE’s shopping centre lease consultancy team, where he worked for ten years on many of the UK’s largest shopping centre assets.

Key assignments include the first round of rent reviews at Westfield London; the 2008 rent review cycle, and the subsequent 2013 lease expiry programme at Cribbs Causeway, Bristol. In recent years, Jon has worked on The Trafford Centre and Canary Wharf and he continues to advise the owners of Bluewater and centre:mk, Milton Keynes.

Jon provides a combination of technical expertise and commercial awareness when acting for clients. He has extensive experience in various forms of dispute resolution; he is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (ACIArb).