Draft a commercial lease for SIPP or SSAS property with the right legal context

It is usually needed where commercial property is held through a SIPP or SSAS and a formal lease needs to be put in place for the business occupying that property. That can include situations where a business owner is leasing premises from their own pension arrangement, or where trustees and advisers need the lease document to reflect the structure properly. The pension element changes the legal context, so this service is better suited to those arrangements than a standard commercial lease drafting matter with no pension involvement.

The lease still needs the usual commercial points, such as rent, term, permitted use, repair obligations and default provisions. What changes is the setting in which the lease sits. Pension-held property often brings extra scrutiny around how the arrangement is documented and whether the lease terms fit the wider structure of the transaction. A generic lease form may not deal neatly with those issues. That is why this service combines lease drafting with legal input on the pension-related considerations affecting the document.

Yes, where the comments fall within the included amendment allowance and involve limited drafting changes. That can be useful if trustees or the provider raise a small number of points on the wording after reviewing the first draft. If the feedback leads to a substantial rewrite, additional documents or a wider negotiation about the deal structure, that would usually sit outside the included work. In practice, the distinction often turns on whether the comments are minor drafting refinements or whether they change the commercial basis of the lease.

Once the draft is prepared, you can review it and raise comments, and we can make the included minor amendments. The next step is often for the draft to be considered by trustees, the pension provider or other stakeholders involved in the property arrangement. If the document is accepted, the matter can move towards signing and completion. If new issues emerge at that stage, such as side arrangements, unusual occupation terms or extended negotiations, those further steps would need separate scoping because they go beyond the initial drafting work.

This service covers the lease drafting and the pension-related legal input described on the page, but it does not include tax advice, trustee decision-making, lender requirements or ongoing representation after the included drafting work. That distinction matters because pension property transactions often involve several parallel issues that sit outside the lease document itself. If your matter later needs broader negotiation support, additional transaction documents or post-completion assistance, we can discuss that separately. Keeping the service narrow helps make the deliverables and limits clear from the outset.

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