Annie Lund

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Annie is a Senior Associate in the Construction Disputes team.

She provides dispute resolution advice to parties involved in complex construction and engineering projects, both in the UK and internationally. Known for her forensic yet pragmatic approach, she represents owners, developers, contractors and consultants across various sectors, including commercial real estate, infrastructure and energy.

Annie has experience in resolving a wide range of disputes, such as delay and disruption claims, final account valuations, claims relating to variations, defective design and poor workmanship, as well as termination and bond call scenarios. She uses a variety of dispute resolution techniques to achieve results for her clients, including negotiation, mediation, adjudication, litigation and arbitration.

Previously, Annie worked as a judicial assistant to the judges of the Technology and Construction Court, High Court of England and Wales.

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Alex Greenwood

Alex Greenwood

Alex is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team where he has extensive experience across a myriad of commercial real estate transactions. His practice includes acquisitions, disposals and complex asset management transactions, with a particular passion for development projects and forward fundings. Alex covers a variety of sectors but has a focus on industrial and logistics and a keen interest in data centres. 

He has acted for a range of clients such as charitable organisations, livery companies, large institutional investors and developers, advising from heads of terms stage through to acquisition contracts, options, lettings, fundings and finally disposals.

Having worked in-house, Alex has a marked understanding of the requirements of the client and the role that legals perform as one of the many components of the client’s business. This enables Alex to provide legal advice that is commercial and adds real value to the client and their business.

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Amy Sarraff

Amy Sarraff

Amy has over 13 years of experience specializing in UK Immigration and Nationality law. She advises and represents private clients, specifically high net worth individuals and family offices on all areas  of the UK’s immigration system, EU Settlement Scheme, and applications for settlement, British citizenship and complex passport applications. Amy provides strategic planning for individual’s and their family’s relocation to the UK, often crafted around complex issues, whilst keeping the client’s long-term goals in mind. 

She also assists companies, from start-ups to multinational corporations, with obtaining Sponsor Licences and sponsoring migrants for their business, as well as advising on compliance, audits and illegal working. She has a particular focus on the financial and professional services sectors.

With family roots in Egypt and as an Egyptian Arabic speaker, Amy has particular experience of working with clients from the Middle East and North Africa region. 

Amy has a dual role and also works as a Knowledge Lawyer, supporting the UK Immigration Team. She is responsible for keeping the UK Immigration Team up to date, coordinating training, ensuring know-how is shared and promoting the practise.

She was initially called to the Bar of England and Wales and is a Member of Middle Temple. Amy completed her pupilage at the Attorney General’s chambers in Trinidad and Tobago and cross-qualified as a Solicitor in the UK in 2010. She has worked in the Middle East as Inhouse Counsel in an international advertising agency and has worked for the big four and many city law firms. Amy has also volunteered as a Magistrate.

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Ana Nicorici

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Ana is a Senior Associate in our Immigration team, specialising in all aspects of UK Immigration and Nationality law. With over 13 years of experience in this field, she provides both private individuals and multinational companies practical and tailored advice.

With personal experience of going through the UK relocation process, she understands the importance of guiding her clients through the process as clearly and simply as possible. Ana advises high net worth individuals and their families with planning their move to the UK all the way through to naturalising as British citizens. She provides strategic planning for applicants’ relocation to the UK, crafted around the client’s long-term goals. 

With particular expertise in advising EU citizens and their family members on their rights in the UK, post Brexit she has successfully obtained status for clients with complex personal circumstances and late applications submitted on a discretionary basis. She also regularly advises on complex British nationality applications and has an in-depth knowledge of assisting British nationals with their spouses’ and children’s UK visas.  

Ana assists companies, from start-ups to multinational corporations, with obtaining Sponsor Licences and sponsoring migrants for their business, as well as advising on compliance and audits. 

Over the years, Ana has been recognised as a specialist by several Eastern European diasporas and has been a point of contact for their UK Immigration queries. Ana is fluent in Russian and Romanian. She is proud to have supported these communities through pro-bono work and was one of the first immigration specialists to help Ukrainian refugees wishing to come to the UK.  

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Lucinda Smart

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Lucinda is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team. She has experience advising clients on commercial disputes in a wide variety of sectors, including natural resources, banking and financial services, technology, and media.

She has worked on complex and high value commercial disputes across multiple jurisdictions and in a broad range of sectors. Lucinda has particular experience in cases linked to commercial fraud and has acted in proceedings at High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court level. Lucinda is also a member of Forsters’ Art Group. Her clients include corporates, financial institutions and high net worth individuals.

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Alex Harrison

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Alex is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team where he advises on all areas of commercial real estate, including development schemes, acquisitions, disposals, financings and asset management. His practice focuses on the offices, industrial and logistics and retail sectors.

His client base is diverse, ranging from high net worth individuals to large investment funds and developers. For all clients, he has a pragmatic and commercial approach and works proactively to close deals as efficiently as possible. He prides himself on working collaboratively with the firm’s specialist groups to provide a comprehensive and joined up approach to every transaction. This often sees Alex work with our Corporate and Banking teams too.

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Olivia Carter

Olivia Carter

Olivia is a Senior Associate in our Private Client team.

She specialises in both UK and international private client work, advising trustees, families and individuals on a wide range of wealth and succession planning and taxation matters.

Olivia’s work includes the preparation of wills and lasting powers of attorney, trust structuring and administration, and personal tax planning.

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Polly Calver

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Polly’s areas of practice include all aspects of private family law, including resolving arrangements for children, handling the financial consequences of separation, cohabitation, and cases involving trusts and international elements.

She frequently acts for parents in children matters. Polly is committed to taking a child-focussed approach to resolving issues such as where children live, go to school and other aspects of parental decision-making, including in cases involving children with additional needs. She has experience of supporting parents through mediation and other forms of dispute resolution, as well as through a court-based process.

Polly has a wide range of experience acting for individuals in respect of the financial implications of separation. She frequently acts for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and other individuals with unconventional income and asset structures, as well as acting for homemakers and full-time parents.

She also advises on pre- and post-nuptial agreements.

Polly has experience advising other family members (siblings and parents) on the implications of divorce and separation of a family member on the wider family.

Polly is a regular commentator on family law issues and has written for publications including Wealth Briefing and the International Adviser.

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Polly Streather

Polly Streather

Polly is a Senior Associate in the Construction team, specialising in advising on non-contentious construction projects related to UK-based real estate development.

She is experienced in drafting, negotiating and advising on JCT forms of building contract, professional team appointments, collateral warranties/third party rights and security documentation. Polly also has experience in carrying out due diligence and producing legal reports in relation to the sale, purchase, letting and funding of real estate assets.

Polly acts for a wide variety of clients in the construction sector, including property developers, funders, purchasers and sellers, as well as institutional investors and high net worth individuals. She also advises a number of contractors, architects, interior designers and development managers.

She has particular experience in the industrial and logistics, offices, student accommodation and high end residential sectors.

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Lukas Saul

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Lukas Saul is a Senior Associate in the Real Estate Disputes team.

His practice focuses on commercial real estate disputes. He advises on day-to-day portfolio management matters such as business lease renewals, landlord consents, breaks, dilapidations, rent and service charge, and on broader contentious property issues such as easements and restrictive covenants. Lukas also has extensive experience in the context of commercial development issues, such as rights to light, and advising on vacant possession.

He has acted in High Court and County Court proceedings as well as in the context of alternative dispute resolution and his clients include institutional investors, developers and corporate occupiers.

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Jessica Scarlett

Jessica Scarlett

Jessica is a Senior Associate in the Residential Property team.

Jessica advises on a wide range of property matters including residential acquisitions and disposals, property securitisation (including Islamic financing), leasing and licencing.

Jessica’s practice offers both transactional and advisory services, with clients including high profile individuals, developers, private companies, offshore trusts and banks.

She adopts a proactive and tailored approach with clients to ensure matters are progressed diligently and efficiently. Jessica prides herself on offering practical solutions to clients’ issues.

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Freddie Hunter

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Freddie is a Senior Associate in the Residential Property team.

Freddie acts for clients on a vast range of property matters including residential acquisitions and disposals, property refinancing and matters involving leases and licences. Freddie also has experience acting for both lenders and borrowers in property securitisation including Islamic Finance.

He adopts a proactive and tailored approach with clients to ensure matters are progressed diligently and efficiently. He prides himself on offering practical solutions to any issues that might present themselves.

A client has commented that Freddie’s “handling of the transaction at the coal-face was extremely efficient, whilst he is always a pleasure to deal with”, whilst another recognised that “without his persistence, the matters would never have completed”.

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Harvey Small

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Harvey Small is a Senior Associate in the Real Estate Disputes team.

Harvey’s practice focuses on commercial real estate disputes, advising on a range of matters including business lease renewals, dilapidations, easements, rent and service charge disputes and lease terminations.

He also advises in respect of residential disputes concerning possession proceedings, rent arrears, breach of covenants, rights of way, boundary and party wall disputes. Additionally, Harvey has experience advising on property related professional negligence matters.

Harvey’s client base includes a diverse range of institutional investors and funds, office and retail clients, developers, and high net worth individuals.

He routinely acts in County Court and High Court proceedings and has also assisted in respect of a matter progressing to the Court of the Appeal and now Supreme Court.

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Nick Southworth

Nick Southworth

Nick is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Real Estate Disputes team specialising in commercial property disputes.

He advises on all matters across the commercial spectrum but with a particular focus on restrictive covenants and easements, telecoms, joint venture disputes, vacant possession strategies, termination or renewal of business tenancies, dilapidations, possession and forfeiture proceedings, and professional negligence claims.

Nick’s clients include institutional landlords, asset managers, pension funds, property developers, estates and everything in between across the commercial property field.

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Gethen Sasanow

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Gethen is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Residential Property team where he acts for private individuals, companies and developers on all aspects of residential property matters including the sale and purchase of freehold and leasehold properties.

He has experience acting for developers on residential developments including dealing with plot sales and landlord and tenant matters.

In addition, Gethen also acts for private and international banks on all aspects of secured lending transactions.

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David Young

David Young

David is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team.

He works with a wide range of clients operating across multiple industry sectors including life sciences, technology, media and telecommunications, and insurance in order to resolve commercial disputes, whether at the pre-action stage, in litigation or arbitration.

David has particular experience in advising on complex contractual issues and in multi-jurisdictional claims involving fraud and asset tracing, as well as advising on all aspects of litigation funding and ATE insurance.

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Ryan Smale

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Ryan is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team where he advises on all aspects of the property lifecycle, including acquisition, development, asset management and eventual disposal.

His practice typically includes advising institutional investors and developers, but he also acts on the lender side which ensures he is well placed to advise clients on any lender requirements. He has a particular focus on the industrial, out of town retail and leisure and office sectors, but also holds experience acting on the lender side for residential developments.

Ryan prides himself on providing clear and commercial advice alongside identifying effective solutions which allow for transactions to progress smoothly. Within the firm, he also takes a keen interest in the development of junior solicitors where he has taken on the role of trainee supervisor.

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Sarah Somerfield

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Sarah is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team where she has over a decade of experience handling a wide range of commercial property maters, including development projects and investment transactions within the office, industrial and retail sectors.

Working closely with our specialist teams, notably planning, construction and tax, she has advised a diverse client base, ranging from multinationals and investment funds to developers and high net worth individuals. She is particularly focused on the retail sector, acting for retailers and developers alike, where she has a decade of experience in dealing with acquisitions and lettings for high profile clients.

Combining her breadth of experience with a practical, solutions-focused approach, Sarah helps her clients to realise their goals. She prides herself on her ability to collaborate effectively with our specialist teams, clients and other parties, with the aim of driving deals forward to achieve the client’s desired results.

Sarah also plays a key role in nurturing the next generation of solicitors, delivering frequent training to trainees, supervising juniors in the team and contributing to our firm-wide mentoring.

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Adam Saunby

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Adam acts for a range of clients typically ultra high net worth and high net worth individuals or owners of some of England and Wales’ most iconic landed estates and farms. Adam’s work is divided into transactional and estate management covering agricultural, commercial and residential aspects dealing with significant, complex and historic estates and farms as well as country houses.

Adam’s expertise extends to acting for landowners on natural capital, in option agreements, pre-emption agreements and contracts conditional on the grant of planning permission for development and renewable work as well as complicated overages on farms and estates.

He liaises with his colleagues across Forsters to bring in expertise where required from private wealth planning, tax advice, property litigation, planning, corporate, employment and banking.

As a senior member of the team, Adam assists with supervision of junior members of the team trainees and he is part of the firm’s Knowledge and Learning Forum and Faith Support Network.

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Vicky Sheehan-Dare

Vicky Sheehan-Dare

Vicky is a Senior Associate in the Construction team, specialising in non-contentious construction law.

She is experienced in drafting and negotiating building contracts, professional team appointments, collateral warranties, novation agreements and security documents. Vicky also acts for funders and borrowers on development financings and advises on the construction aspects of the sale and purchase of various types of real estate assets.

Vicky advises a variety of clients including developers, funders, purchasers, sellers, landlords and tenants. Her clients operate across a wide range of sectors including commercial offices, retail, hotels and leisure, residential and student accommodation.

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Emma Spence

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Emma specialises in advising clients on all non-contentious construction aspects of a development, from acquisition, through the development phase (including liaison with any key stakeholders such as tenants or funders) and finally on disposal.

Emma specialises in advising on key construction documents, including both bespoke and standard form building contracts such as JCT, as well as professional team appointments, novation agreements, surety documents, warranties and third party rights. Emma also advises on different procurement routes for construction projects, providing construction input into commercial real estate documents, carrying out due diligence exercises and producing reports on construction documentation.

Emma’s focus is on the design and construction of UK real estate development projects. In particular, Emma has recently been involved in projects relating to offices, hotels and logistics, as well as working on numerous high value residential projects for private individuals.

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Daniel Steele

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Daniel is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team where he has developed a breadth of experience across a range of transactions and a variety of clients. His practice focuses on development projects, asset acquisitions and disposals, general landlord and tenant matters and real estate finance, with a particular focus on offices, funds and the industrial and logistics sector.

This often involves him working through the entire lifecycle of a property, from the initial purchase to the development of the property and then, lastly, on the client’s exit strategy, be that via lettings or the eventual sale of the property.

He advises a variety of clients including major landlords and institutional and developer clients in relation to assets across London and the UK. He also works closely with our Banking and Finance team, acting on commercial real estate matters for both borrowers and lenders relating to development or refinancing transactions.

Daniel is a member of our Industrial and Logistics team which aims to develop strategy and actions to further expand the firm’s presence and capabilities within the sector, for both existing and potential clients.

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Alex Tamosius

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Alex is a Senior Associate in our Private Client team.

He advises individuals with economic and personal interests inside and outside the UK on how to optimise their UK tax exposure and that of their holding structures, while balancing broader concerns such as asset protection, succession planning, and family governance.

His clients are often becoming or ceasing to be UK resident, remaining UK resident but are domiciled outside the UK, or non-UK resident with investments in the UK. He also advises UK resident and domiciled entrepreneurs on optimising the taxation of their businesses, exiting from their businesses, and planning for after any substantial liquidity events.

As part of this broad tax practise, he advises on a number of specialist UK tax matters, including the taxation of cryptoassets, private equity, director and employee remuneration (including employee benefit trusts), and consular and diplomatic immunity from UK tax.

He has extensive experience of dealing with contentious tax matters where HMRC is investigating or challenging a taxpayer’s affairs, and with non-tax based disputes where tax is relevant.

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Rebecca Tonkin

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Rebecca is a Senior Associate in our Commercial Real Estate practice and has a wide range of experience in the real estate disciplines with particular focus on real estate finance, investment acquisitions and disposals, landlord and tenant matters and development.

Rebecca has considerable experience in real estate finance and works closely with other departments within the firm to deliver the best possible service to our clients.  She has also worked extensively in the retail sector, acting for both landlord and tenant, and advising on general occupational matters.

Rebecca acts for institutional pension funds and investors, financial institutions, property companies and high net worth individuals.

Rebecca is passionate about diversity and inclusion, she sits on our Diversity and Inclusion Committee and is a member of our Race Support Network and Working Parents and Carers Group. Rebecca is committed to supporting junior lawyers in the firm, and is a mentor on our trainee solicitor mentoring scheme.

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Jo Thompson

Jo Thompson

Jo is a Senior Associate in the Private Client team where she advises a broad range of clients including high net worth individuals, families, landed estates and trustees.

Her work involves trust structuring, succession planning and family governance for international and UK families, who tend to have cross-border personal and business interests. Jo’s in-depth experience means she is able to provide advice on residence, domicile and UK taxation. Her particular interest is in heritage property taxation, where she combines passion and knowledge to best advise her clients.

Jo is part of Forsters Art group and plays a key role in servicing Forsters clients that own heritage property and works of art.

Jo is a ranked lawyer in the personal tax, trusts and probate section of the 2023 edition of The Legal 500.

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Tina Strong

Tina Strong

Tina is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team who has a broad range of experience acting on acquisitions and disposals across the retail, industrial and logistics and leisure sectors. Her practice focuses on acquiring development sites for the leisure industry on both a freehold and leasehold basis and dealing with portfolio transactions.

Having worked in the retail, industrial and leisure sectors for over a decade, Tina has a wealth of experience to draw from when confronted with unusual sites or requirements. She acts for both landlords and tenants and has an acute understanding of the needs and constraints of both parties. She now has a particular specialism in the acquisition of leisure sites and has a proven track record in closing both pre-let and freehold acquisition deals successfully.

Tina is regularly complimented on her responsiveness and ability to negotiate effective solutions to unlock deals in a timely manner by her clients.

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Samantha Tomczyk

Samantha Tomczyk

Samantha is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Residential Property team where she advises on all areas of non-contentious residential property work. Samantha acts for a wide range of clients, including private individuals, overseas investors and companies in connection with both freehold and leasehold acquisitions/sales, as well as acting for lenders in financing transactions.

She is experienced in acting for investors and developers on newly developed properties and advising developers on the legal structuring and set up of their schemes.

In addition, Samantha is also an enfranchisement specialist, acting for landed estate owners, landlords and tenants in relation to lease extension and collective enfranchisement claims as well as other non-contentious estate management work.

As Knowledge Champion for the Residential Property team, Samantha organises and delivers training ensuring the team is kept abreast of any updates and changes.

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Amelia Walsh

Amelia Walsh

Amelia is a Senior Associate in the Corporate and Commercial team covering a broad range of cross-border corporate and commercial work.

She advises clients on equity capital markets transactions, mergers, acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, limited liability partnership and shareholder arrangements, company reorganisations, and general corporate governance. She is also experienced in advising family offices and high net worth individuals in relation to investments across a range of asset classes, and has spent time on secondments at a global investment bank and a venture capital conglomerate.

Amelia also provides pro bono legal advice at the South Westminster Legal Advice Clinic.

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Henrietta Watson

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Henrietta is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Private Client team.

Henrietta acts predominantly for UK resident and domiciled individuals and specialises in advising the owners of farms, landed estates, large residential property portfolios and family businesses. She deals with a wide variety of private client matters, including tax and succession planning, trust matters and the preparation of wills and lasting powers of attorney.

She has particular expertise in succession planning that navigates the transition of family businesses from one generation to the next whilst maximising agricultural property and business property reliefs, with a particular interest in providing advice to owners of high value equestrian assets and businesses. Henrietta is also a chartered tax adviser, making her uniquely placed to provide specialist advice to clients whose business and personal affairs are usually inextricably linked.

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Nicola Weil

Nicola Weil

Nicola advises private clients on succession and estate planning, helping them to effectively transfer their wealth to the next generation. With a particular focus on internationally mobile individuals and families, particularly those coming to or leaving the UK, Nicola advises on wills and UK tax issues including residence and domicile. She also co-ordinates cross-border advice for clients with international connections.

Her client base is varied and includes institutional clients such as banks and trustees, advising on tax efficient asset-holding structures.

She is experienced in assisting clients with reviewing their tax affairs in the context of frequent tax regime changes, ensuring they are kept up-to-date with legislative change. She is focused on providing clear and practical advice, drawing on extensive technical knowledge and experience gained through working in private practice and in-house for a Swiss-based trust company.

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Jessica Wheeler

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Jessica is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team where she works on a broad spectrum of property matters, such as advising on acquisitions and disposals and high value landlord and tenant work. Her practice also has a particular focus on development projects.

She is experienced in advising a wide range of clients including institutional landlords, REITs and developers and has acted for both landlords and tenants. Jessica has led pre-let deals for Central London developments and also has expertise in the renewable energy sector, advising developers at the pre-planning stage.

Jessica strives to distil complex legal matters into commercial advice, tailored to her clients’ goals and objectives. Throughout her career she has committed to mentoring young talent, having held various mentoring roles and running workshops for aspiring lawyers from underrepresented backgrounds.

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Adam Whitfield-Jones

Adam Whitfield-Jones

Adam is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Residential Property team and acts for individuals, companies and developers on a wide range of property matters including the sale and purchase of freehold and leasehold properties. He also acts for private and international banks on all aspects of secured lending transactions.

Adam has many years’ experience advising high net worth individuals and companies investing in the London’s prime residential property sector. In addition, he assists international banks with property finance deals and advises some of London’s largest developers on legal structuring and unit sales.

Adam deals with the full spectrum of residential property work including licences for alteration, listed properties, lease extensions, de-enveloping and fire safety. He also advises developer clients on complex matters relating to residential and mixed use developments including tenant’s rights for first refusal, compliance with UK Finance, service charge and estate management.

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Caroline Wild

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Caroline is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Real Estate Disputes team where she advises clients on all aspects of leasehold enfranchisement. With almost 20 years of experience, Caroline has a proven track record for technical excellence.

She has extensive experience in dealing with lease extensions and freehold purchases, both on a voluntary basis, and under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 and the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993. Caroline also advises on Right to Manage claims and the right of first refusal provisions under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 and she is taking an active interest in the state of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024.

With a diverse client base she acts for both landlords and tenants, including private individuals, landed estates, developers, property and management companies, housing associations, charities, and UK and international investors. This has proved invaluable in her daily practice as she understands the process and priorities from many different perspectives.

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Lauren Melachrino

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Lauren is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team. She is currently on maternity leave.

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Dean Monk

Dean Monk

Dean is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Real Estate Disputes team.

He has over a decade’s worth of experience in acting for both landlords and tenants across a broad range of sectors/properties (offices; retail; warehouses; film studios; care homes; landed estates) and legal issues (landlord and tenant issues; neighbourly matters; telecoms; insolvency; redevelopment/site clearance; business rates).

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Aaron Morris

Aaron Morris

Aaron is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Corporate team where he advises clients on a broad range of corporate work including acquisitions and disposals, joint venture and shareholder arrangements, corporate restructurings, property related corporate transactions and share incentive plans.

Aaron works across a number of sectors including real estate (including commercial real estate, residential real estate and student accommodation), private wealth, energy, technology and sports.

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Laura Neal

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Laura is a Senior Associate in the Private Client team. She plays a key role in running Forsters’ Art group which focusses on acting for galleries and auction houses, as well as UK-based and international estates, trusts, foundations and collectors. Laura is ranked as an ‘Associate to Watch’ in the Chambers HNW Guide for Art and Cultural Property.

Laura also volunteers at South Westminster Legal Advice Clinic.

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Elizabeth Oxendale

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Elizabeth is a Senior Associate in the Real Estate Disputes team.

She is currently on maternity leave.

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Patrick Feeney

Patrick Feeney

Patrick is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team where he has experience of a wide range of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and disposals, negotiating lettings, financings and development transactions, and the real estate aspects of corporate transactions.

He advises a variety of clients, with a focus on institutional funds and investors, across a range of asset classes. Patrick has a particular interest in the industrial and logistics sector and has worked on a number of major logistics portfolio transactions.

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Lucy MacArthur

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Lucy is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Corporate team where she advises clients on a range of UK and cross-border transactions.

She has extensive experience in corporate real estate matters, acting for investors and developers alike on acquisitions and disposals (often with W&I insurance), restructurings, complex JVs and co-invests over all asset classes. Lucy has spent time on secondment to an international real estate developer and investor (European AUM >£20bn).

In addition, Lucy also advises international family office and ultra high net worth clients on their investments into a range of industries, including space tech, renewable energy, drinks businesses, beauty and fashion brands and tech start-ups.

Lucy is a mentor for the Social Mobility Foundation and provides pro bono advice to philanthropic groups.

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Robert Malaney

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Robert is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team where he has extensive experience across a wide range of real estate transactions, including development projects, forward fundings, acquisitions and disposals, commercial lettings and real estate finance. His practice often involves acting on development work, and largely within the living and industrial sectors.

Working across the full property lifecycle, he advises from initial acquisition to development, asset management, financing and disposal. Robert acts for a variety of clients including institutional funds, banks, landed estates and developers.

Robert enjoys building close working relationships with his clients to understand the drivers behind transactions. Taking a commercial approach to deals, he is dedicated to achieving his clients’ desired outcomes efficiently while ensuring their position is protected.

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Mary-Anne Twomey

Mary-Anne Twomey

Mary-Anne is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team with over ten years’ experience acting across a range of sectors, including industrial and logistics, offices and business space, retail, funds and build to rent. Alongside advising on the entire property lifecycle, she also provides support on real estate finance, corporate and banking matters.

Whilst holding a broad range of experience, Mary-Anne specialises in acquisitions, disposals and asset management work, where she advises a variety of clients including major landlords, and institutional and developer clients in relation to assets across London and the UK.

Responsive and proactive, she is committed to providing advice to her clients in a clear and time efficient manner. She enjoys working with our specialist Real Estate Disputes, Planning and Construction teams to provide her clients with the full property service.

Mary-Anne is an active member of many Forsters initiatives including her role as a trainee supervisor which sees her deliver training to more junior lawyers, her position in the Working Parents and Carers network which saw her work on maternity leave returners’ initiatives and her commitment to our charitable lunch club programme.

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Charlotte Mashhoudy

Charlotte Mashhoudy

Charlotte is a Senior Associate in the Construction team and specialises in non-contentious construction law. She advises a variety of clients, including developers, funders and private individuals, in drafting and negotiating consultant appointments, collateral warranties/third party rights, novation agreements, surety documents and amendments to JCT forms of building contracts.

Charlotte’s experience includes giving advice on different procurement routes for construction projects, providing construction input into commercial real estate documents, carrying out due diligence exercises and producing reports on construction documentation.

Charlotte is also the team’s Responsible Business champion.

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Guy Mawson

Guy Mawson

Guy is a Senior Associate in the Family team and has significant experience across the full range of private family law work. In particular, he acts for high net worth individuals regarding financial claims on separation. Such cases often involve multi-jurisdictional issues, trust structures and complex assets. Guy frequently act for clients with a high profile for whom reputation management is a key consideration.

Guy also specialises in sensitive children matters, including those with significant welfare concerns and where serious allegations are made. He has extensive experience advising high net worth individuals on prenuptial agreements, often working closely with family offices and private client advisers.

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Naomi McLean

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Naomi is a Senior Associate in the Private Client team where she deals with the administration of high value and complex estates on behalf of executors and administrators, including professional executors, for both UK based and international high net worth and ultra high net worth individuals.

She brings a broad wealth of estate administration experience to the table, encompassing dealing with estates, especially those which involve multiple jurisdictions, charities and businesses (including family and farming businesses), and negotiating with HMRC on technical points including agreeing valuations, double taxation reliefs and domicile for inheritance tax purposes. In addition, Naomi has experience in dealing with matters which become contentious in nature, particularly those with problematic family dynamics.

Her experience also stretches to include administering large and complicated intestacies (where individuals have died, leaving no valid will) and problematic wills, and she deals with all ancillary aspects of probate, including advising on will trusts, deeds of variation and tax matters.

Naomi supervises junior lawyers and assists with Queen Mary University Law Clinic students providing probate advice to members of the public.

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Natalie Parsons

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Natalie is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team and acts on a range of property transactions including acquisitions, disposals, landlord and tenant matters and asset management. She represents a variety of clients including institutional investors, pension funds, property developers and retail occupiers.

Her practice includes working across the office, industrial and retail sectors where she is well-equipped to advise on every stage of the lifecycle of property assets, from the initial acquisition, subsequent asset management matters and ultimate disposal.

She has a particular focus on the later living sector where she has experience in the funding, development, letting and disposal of care homes. This interest stemmed from her degree in Politics where she studied the wider political context of the real estate industry; something that is particularly relevant now in her later living work where government policy and spending decisions have a direct impact on the development of the sector.

Natalie prides herself on approaching transactions with a commercial mindset and a focus on achieving the aims of her clients in the most efficient way possible. She enjoys getting to know the wider commercial impact of the transactions she advises on, and the commercial motivations and sensitivities of the clients she acts for.

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Nicola Copsey

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Nicola is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team and is experienced in a wide range of matters, with a particular focus on development projects and investment transactions within the office, industrial and logistics, and retail sectors.

She advises a diverse client base, including investment funds, developers and overseas investors, and provides her clients with practical advice in an approachable and collaborative manner.

She has a particular focus on student accommodation developments, advising clients on corporate and asset acquisitions and advising throughout the development, including operational structuring and development management agreements.

Nicola is a pillar of support to our future solicitors of the firm in her position as trainee supervisor, where she allocates work, provides feedback and conducts reviews for our junior lawyers. She also supports our community by being an inaugural volunteer supervisor in our Lunch Club, where we provide a hot meal and warm welcome to refugees, migrants and those without resource to public funds.

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Maryam Oghanna

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Maryam is a Senior Associate and solicitor advocate in our Trust and Estate Disputes team. Recognised as a “Rising Star” in the Legal 500 and described in the Chambers HNW Guide as “commercial, focused and user-friendly”, Maryam advises on the full range of private wealth disputes. This includes advising on claims relating to breach of trust, dishonest assistance, trustee/executor removals, blessing applications, validity challenges, and issues relating to mental capacity.

Acting for international high net worth individuals, trustees and professionals, executors, protectors, family offices and beneficiaries, Maryam also specialises in advising clients based in the Middle East. With previous experience as a commercial litigator, she has particular expertise with trusts and estate matters involving family companies, partnerships or other corporates, as well as claims relating to fraud, dishonesty and asset tracing.

Maryam works closely with her clients to understand their goals and objectives, seeking pragmatic outcomes wherever possible. This includes consideration of mediation and creative routes to settlement. Prioritising empathy and understanding, Maryam recognises the delicate and complex nature of family relationships, particularly when dealing with a dispute.

Outside of work Maryam is a volunteer advocate for the Asylum Support Appeals Project, regularly representing asylum seekers in court. She was recently appointed as chair of their board of trustees.

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Paul Grayson

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Paul is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team where he holds over ten years’ experience in the UK property industry. His practice covers the full scope of commercial real estate matters, but specialises in development, strategic land matters and real estate finance.

This often involves advising developers, institutional investors and private equity houses within the industrial and logistics and strategic land sectors. For all clients, Paul prides himself on his responsiveness and commitment to offering commercial and pragmatic advice.

A key player in our industrial and logistics sector, Paul led Forsters’ successful ‘Outside of the Box’ campaign which surveyed professional investors and developers in UK real estate assets about their experiences in competing for land, investment and occupiers while adapting to the current market shifts.

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Georgina Reeves

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Georgina is a Senior Associate in the Planning team, advising on contentious and non-contentious planning matters across a range of sectors, with a focus on residential-led mixed-use developments and complex development sites. She acts for developers, landowners, institutional investors and public bodies.

She advises on all aspects of planning law and works with clients throughout the development lifecycle from initial acquisition through to delivery. Her work includes providing pre-application advice, negotiating planning and infrastructure agreements, and advising on appeal strategy.

Georgina also advises on the planning aspects of residential and commercial property acquisitions and disposals.

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Edward Richards

Edward Richards

Ed is an experienced litigator, having represented clients in numerous complex, high-value disputes, often with a cross-border element. He is equally at home in litigation or arbitration, with experience in High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court proceedings and in arbitrations under the LCIA, ICC, SIAC and GAFTA rules, across a number of seats.

Ed has represented the families of a number of service personnel in complex inquests into their deaths while in service. This work is not readily legally aided and these families would generally be without representation but for advice being provided pro bono. Ed also advises at the South Westminster Legal Advice Clinic.

He is a member of the firm’s Gender Equality and Social Mobility networks.

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Alexandra Ringrose

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Alexandra is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team with extensive experience in commercial property transactions, including acquisitions, development, disposals, funding and asset management.

She operates across multiple sectors such as industrial and logistics, retail, office and business space and Central London estates. Known for building long-term client relationships, Alexandra focuses on understanding their business goals to deliver tailored commercial solutions.

Alexandra values an open, friendly and authentic approach in her interactions with clients, intermediaries and colleagues.

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Zahava Rosenthal

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Zahava acts for individuals, families, and trustees, advising them on a wide range of private client matters. These include the preparation of estate planning documents (wills, trusts, powers of attorney and advance decisions) and the administration of estates and trusts. While most of Zahava’s clients are UK resident and domiciled, many have dual citizenship, assets abroad, or other cross-jurisdictional elements affecting their estate and succession planning.

She specialises in matters relating to mental capacity. As a Lifetime Lawyer, she is trained to work with elderly and vulnerable clients. She advises individuals and their families where diagnoses of dementia and other illnesses have an impact on the options available to them.

Zahava was awarded the STEP Diploma in Trusts and Estates (England and Wales) in 2022, also receiving the Certificate of Worldwide Excellence in the Taxation of Trusts (England and Wales) examination.

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Emma Gregory

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Emma is a Senior Associate in the Real Estate Disputes team.

She has experience in handling a broad range of contentious property matters, with a particular focus on residential property and enfranchisement matters. She has worked on a number of complex matters, including appeals to the Court of Appeal.

Whilst Emma is able to manage a case from pre-action to trial and beyond, she remains committed to resolving disputes in the most commercial way possible with a focus on achieving the best outcome for her clients.

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Laura Haworth

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Laura is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team. She is currently on maternity leave.

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Emma Collison-Davies

Emma Collison-Davies

Emma is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team where she acts for a range of clients including institutional investors, private companies, property funds and corporate occupiers. Her practice focuses on a variety of commercial property transactions including acquisitions and disposals of commercial sites of varying use classes.

This often includes undertaking work for both landlord and tenant clients and managing a variety of asset management matters. Emma likes to understand the clients’ goals of a project and preference on mode and frequency of communication so that she can offer the most commercial, personalised, and effective advice possible.

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Emma Jay

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Emma is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team where she has a broad range of experience covering all aspects of commercial property transactions, including acquisitions, disposals and asset management work. She also advises on the real estate aspects of corporate and finance transactions.

This often sees Emma act for a number of institutional pension funds on the whole property lifecycle of their assets, and collaborate with the Planning, Construction and Real Estate Disputes teams at Forsters to ensure her clients receive a complete service.

She has a particular focus on the office and business space, retail and funds sectors. For all, Emma provides clear, practical and commercial advice to ensure that her clients’ assets and interests in property are maximised.

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Anna Ferster

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Anna is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Family team where she advises upon all areas of private family law and acts in both financial disputes and children matters.

The financial cases Anna advises on often involve complex issues such as the treatment of non-matrimonial property, business valuations and trust assets. She regularly advises clients on cases involving other jurisdictions. Anna also has expertise in advising clients on nuptial agreements.

In addition, Anna frequently acts for clients in relation to children matters which often include issues such as arrangements for the children, relocation and financial provision for children whose parents are unmarried.

As well as being a trainee supervisor, Anna also mentors law students at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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John FitzGerald

John FitzGerald

John is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Private Client team.

John advises on a broad range of trust, personal tax and estate planning matters. He primarily acts for high net worth and ultra high net worth international individuals on UK income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax, especially with respect to the UK tax treatment of non-UK trust structures.

John also has particular expertise in the UK’s statutory residence test and domicile matters, the remittance basis of taxation, business investment relief, the tax treatment of offshore life policies, and the “protected settlement” and “excluded property” trust regimes.

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Róisín Forde

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Roisin is an experienced and commercially minded finance lawyer with a broad range of experience acting for funders, sponsors and borrowers on a wide range of domestic and international finance transactions.

A Senior Associate in the Banking and Finance team, she has a particular focus on real estate finance with experience covering a variety of asset classes including office, retail, residential, hotels, pubs, care homes, student accommodation, warehouses and shopping centres. In addition, her banking experience includes acquisition and leveraged finance, general corporate lending, asset-based lending and workouts and restructuring.

Roisin’s clients include developers, corporates, family offices and high net worth individuals as well as on the lender side, retail and challenger banks, bridging and mezzanine lenders and debt funds.

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Amy Fullerton

Amy Fullerton

Amy is a Senior Associate in the Family team, advising clients on resolving issues surrounding the breakdown of their relationship. She advises on the financial and children matters that result from divorce or separation for non-married couples.

She specialises in assisting clients on financial matters that involve high value, complex or international elements. Consequently, Amy is experienced in instructing and working with other specialist advisors such as financial planners and investment managers.

Where appropriate Amy is committed to resolving matters outside of court and will always consider alternative dispute resolution routes. Where the assistance of the court is in her client’s best interest, Amy has the expertise to guide clients through the process.

Amy is also experienced in preparing pre and post-nuptial agreements for high net worth clients.

Known for her diligent and pragmatic approach, Amy always considers the sensitivities of each individual case to provide the best support to her clients.

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Alice Gordon-Finlayson

Alice Gordon-Finlayson

Alice is a Senior Associate in the Planning team and has extensive experience across a broad spectrum of town and country planning, highways, compulsory purchase, community infrastructure levy (CIL) and heritage matters acting for a range of developers, institutional and private clients.

Alice particularly enjoys advising on the planning aspects of large mixed use and residential developments in and around Central London. From initial strategic advice and planning application reviews, to advice during the planning application process and subsequent negotiation of planning, highways and infrastructure agreements.

She also works for private clients providing bespoke planning advice in both domestic and rural settings. She provides advice on a wide range of areas from the amalgamation of residential property, permitted development rights, listed buildings to enforcement and CIL.

In addition, Alice acts for a number of prominent film studios in this rapidly growing UK sector, assisting them with their expansion aims and development advice from initial acquisition to day-to-day operational challenges and requirements.

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Charles Hancock

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Ranked as a Leading Associate in The Legal 500, 2025, Charles advises on all aspects of private client law, including tax, trusts and succession planning.

His particular area of focus is to advise the owners of landed estates and other family businesses on how to hold and retain family assets and the effective transfer to successive generations. Charles’ technical expertise is complemented by his ability to listen and build long-term relationships based on empathy and trust.

Charles has a wide client base, some of whom have connections outside the UK, and his work includes the preparation of wills; the drafting and administration of trusts; capital tax planning; advising on and setting up partnerships; the taxation of heritage property; and putting in place structures that facilitate effective family governance.

Charles also works closely with our Dispute Resolution team, assisting with the resolution of disputes relating to trusts and estates, and has particular experience in making applications to court to approve variations of trust on behalf of beneficiaries.

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Sarah Heatley

Sarah Heatley

Sarah has a broad range of residential and mixed use property litigation experience, including service charge disputes, possession and trespass matters, breaches of covenant issues, as well as real property disputes such as covenant modification.

She is used to dealing with cases at every level – recently assisting the successful residents in the Fearn and others v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery Supreme Court appeal.

A key member of the Building Safety team, Sarah’s practice is increasingly focussed on building safety related matters in which she acts regularly for building owners, landlords, developers and leaseholders. She has acted in one of the first Remediation Order applications made pursuant to the Building Safety Act 2022.

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Holly Henderson

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Holly Henderson is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team where she advises on a wide range of real estate transactions, from acquisitions, disposals and refinancing, to landlord and tenant and asset and portfolio management. She acts for a variety of clients including tenant occupiers and institutional investors.

She has a particular focus on the retail and leisure sector, where she acts for landlords of major shopping centres developments and holds a detailed understanding of asset management. Also acting for occupiers, such as high street retailers and multi-national retailers entering the UK for the first time, has given Holly a comprehensive understanding of the landlord and tenant relationship.

Using her breadth of experience, Holly advises clients in a commercial and efficient manner. She takes time to understand clients’ needs and challenges, as well as the commercial context in which the transaction sits in order to tailor her advice and ensure client objectives are achieved in a practical and strategic way.

Holly also takes part in pro bono work such as advising a charity on the grant of a lease and ancillary documents, and is a member of multiple internal networks and groups such as our sustainability committee.

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Tracy Hon

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Tracy is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Residential Property team where she acts for overseas’ and local private individuals, investors, corporate entities, developers and banks. She has extensive knowledge of investments that include bulk purchases of new build luxury development properties and mixed-use schemes.

Her property transaction expertise includes acquisitions, disposals, transfers of equity and financing of freehold and leasehold properties in prime central London properties.

Tracy also provides training on new build development acquisitions, financing with overseas’ lenders including basic Sharia Law financing, and assignments to junior colleagues. In addition, she is involved with the mentor programme for the team.

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Catriona Hoyes

Catriona Hoyes

Catriona acts for a wide range of clients, including both borrowers and lenders. Clients range from developers, to banks, to trusts and high net worth individuals.

Her work and core expertise is transactional real estate financings – typically complex, high value and time pressured. Her expertise extends to provide support to the Private Client teams with wealth planning and trust loans, as well as support to the Rural team acting for landowners on the raising of finance (including for renewable works) and the sale of land (including for deferred consideration and in respect of contracts conditional on the grant of planning permission for development). Catriona regularly gives straightforward and timely independent legal advice to guarantors and other parties associated with other transactions. She also has a particular interest in rewilding and the financing options available for it.

Catriona liaises with colleagues across Forsters to bring in expertise where required from Commercial Real Estate, Private Wealth, Rural Estates, Tax Advice, Property Litigation, Planning, Corporate and Employment.

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Anna Jassani

Anna Jassani

Anna advises on all legal aspects of residential property transactions in collaboration with other property professionals. She effectively manages transaction processes and ensures a holistic approach to advising clients.

Her experiences includes property acquisitions and disposals, secured lending and management work (including refurbishment), in relation to boutique and luxury development sites, best in class homes and investment properties based principally in London and surrounding counties. Anna enjoys acting as the sole or lead associate on a range of residential instructions for domestic and international clients.
Anna is a member of the firm’s Faith Support Network, the Working Parents’ Forum and Social Mobility Committee.

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Emma Jones

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Emma specialises in UK probate and estate administration and is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Private Client team.

Her expertise ranges from applying for all types of English grants of representation to advising as to succession rules where there is no valid will to undertaking domicile reviews so that succession and tax rules are correctly applied. She has extensive knowledge of HMRC’s disclosure and valuation principles and regularly assists personal representatives with their Inheritance Tax reporting obligations. She also deals with all ancillary probate matters including post-death tax planning, such as advising on and preparing deeds of variation, and the administration of will trusts.

Emma acts for both UK and non-UK personal representatives and most of her work involves a cross-border element. She has extensive experience in co-ordinating the administration of estates that span multiple jurisdictions ensuring that joined up tax advice is received. She has particular interest in administering estates with US connections and regularly works with US personal representatives and advisors.

Emma has recently completed the STEP Advanced Certificate in Cross-Border Estates.

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Stella Kim

Stella Kim

Stella is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Private Client team where she advises high net worth individuals, families, family offices and trustees on a broad range of matters involving tax, trusts, succession vehicles and estate planning.

She frequently works with internationally mobile individuals and families considering the succession of their wealth and business to the next generation. She is experienced in complex cross-border tax and structuring matters involving non-UK resident trusts, foundations, corporate vehicles, partnerships and UK property holding structures.

Stella’s clients are predominantly based in the Middle East and Asia, although her practice is not limited to these regions.

Utilising her corporate tax background, Stella takes a commercial and pragmatic approach to her advice and always ensures it is tailored to meet the needs of her client’s objectives.

Outside of work, Stella volunteers at the South Westminster Legal Advice Clinic and is a member of Forsters’ Charity and Community CSR Group.

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Katie Hibbs

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Katie is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team where she manages all aspects of commercial property transactions, such as acquisitions and disposals of mixed use investments and freehold and leasehold properties. She also deals with on-going portfolio management and all other landlord and tenant matters, including management agreements and secured lending.

Acting on behalf of a variety of clients from high net worth individuals to institutional funds, family offices and overseas investors, Katie works closely with her clients both throughout the transaction and post completion to ensure their assets are maximised moving forward.

She has a particular focus on the restaurant and retails sectors in and around London’s West End, but supports a variety of clients with a number of assets across a broad spectrum of uses. She holds over ten years’ experience in the prime Central London property market so uses that experience to tailor advice to a clients’ specific needs.

Katie is passionate about training the future solicitors of the firm and has become a trainee supervisor, seeing her allocate work, provide feedback and conduct reviews.

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Will Leney

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Will specialises in real estate disputes and risk mitigation strategies with a particular focus on rights to light issues and development related problems faced by clients.

His work also includes vacant possession strategies, disputed rent reviews, lease renewals, dilapidations, breaches of contract, tenant insolvency and other portfolio management issues faced by both landlords and tenants.

Will navigates clients through the complexities of the litigation process to implement appropriate strategies and resolve disputes through the Courts or alternative dispute resolution. He seeks to get to the central points of a case while keeping an eye on the detail that may be overlooked during a stressful period for clients.

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Louise Marin-Bataller

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Louise is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team and holds a broad range of experience across commercial property transactions including acquisitions and dispositions of high value assets, financing and refinancing of complex property assets, leasing and property management.

Her practice focuses on property development for residential, commercial and mixed use schemes acting for developers and landowners from initial land acquisition through master planning to eventual estate management or disposition. This often involves negotiating development agreements, options, overage, pre-emptions and property management agreements, alongside dealing with environmental constraints of contaminated sites and with the financing and refinancing of all property assts.

She works closely with clients on large projects for the duration of the development process and is able to provide her commerciality to see the wider picture. Having a good understand of a client’s business is key to Louise understanding their goals and providing an excellent service.

Louise has a particular focus on the Living sector, and is passionate about development and regeneration; she finds it fascinating from a legal perspective and appreciates the importance on a practical level.

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Grace Cassidy

Grace Cassidy

Grace is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate practice where she has extensive experience in commercial property transactions, including acquisitions, development, disposals, funding and asset management.

She acts for institutional pension funds and investors, financial institutions and property developers with a particular focus on student accommodation developments.

Grace prides herself on her responsiveness and commitment to offering commercial and pragmatic advice to clients.

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Daniel Burr

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Daniel is an experienced Senior Associate in the Construction team and acts primarily in the development, sale, purchase, letting and financing of commercial real estate projects. His clients include developers, institutional investors, funders and tenants.

While Daniel’s established practice reaches all aspects of the real estate development market, Daniel has particular experience advising in connection with the end-to-end delivery of complex and multi-let industrial and logistics projects. In addition, Daniel acts for a number of international film studios in relation to the construction of film stages and post-production facilities and developers undertaking the construction of complex office developments and refurbishments in London and the regions.

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Lanna Chen

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Lanna is a Senior Associate in the Residential Property team where she is involved in all aspects of freehold and leasehold transactions including purchases and sales, refinancing, lease extensions, equity transfers and contract assignments.

She has a long track record of helping high net worth overseas investors particularly from the Far East investing in prime London off plan properties. Lanna has extensive experience in bulk purchases and is the expert on Sharia finance.

Her clients include various banks from China, Hong Kong and Singapore where she advises on property related matters.

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Oliver Claridge

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Oliver provides tax advice relating to commercial and residential real estate, corporate M&A deals, and corporate aspects of private client deals. His advice includes profits on trading, VAT, SDLT and capital taxes.

He advises on a range of corporate tax issues, covering taxes on UK residential and commercial property transactions, withholding taxes on international finance deals, tax provisions in corporate M&A transactions, structuring for UK and international clients, taxation of crypto-assets and taxes affecting employers and employees.

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James Carpenter

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James is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Real Estate Disputes team. He advises on both residential and commercial property disputes, with a particular specialism in enfranchisement and the tenant’s rights of first refusal.

His Residential Property practice encompasses the full spectrum of landlord and tenant matters, including service charge disputes, section 20 consolations, professional negligence, recovery of arrears, breach of covenant issues, disrepair and termination.

From an early stage in his career, he has developed a specialism in leasehold enfranchisement and the tenant’s right of first refusal. He has particular experience dealing with complex collective enfranchisement and house claims and have acted in several reported cases including in the Upper Tribunal, High Court and Court of Appeal.

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Ashleigh Carr

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Ashleigh is a Senior Associate in our Trust and Estate Disputes team. Recognised as an “Associate to Watch” in the Chambers HNW Guide, she is described as “really knowledgeable and also very good with clients”, Ashleigh has experience spanning the full spectrum of trust and estate disputes.

Instructed by both professionals and private individuals, based in the UK and internationally, Ashleigh acts for clients on high value and complex family disputes.

Her expertise in contentious trusts include advising on trustee powers and breach of trust claims, applications for the removal and replacement of trustees, disputes involving protectors and the variation of trusts.

Where probate disputes arise, Ashleigh has experience of advising on validity challenges to Wills, 1975 Inheritance Act claims as well as disputes between executors and/or beneficiaries and claims relating to inherited land and property, including proprietary estoppel claims.

Ashleigh is regularly asked by clients and fiduciaries to ‘stress test’ trusts or wills and assist our Private Client team in winding up trust structures or the division of trust assets.

She also has experience in contested Court of Protection matters and professional negligence claims.

Ashleigh is co-chair of ConTrA (the Contentious Trusts Association).

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Rory Carter

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Rory sits in our Trust and Estate Disputes team with a specialism in onshore and offshore trust disputes and issues, as well as advising on estate matters. Rory has particular experience in litigation involving offshore trusts, complex tax issues and crypto assets. He regularly assists our Private Client team in stress testing structures that are being established and he has significant experience in acting for family and trust owned businesses, as well as farms and estates.

As a Senior Associate specialising in litigation, Rory brings a comprehensive understanding and strategic insight to navigating the complexities of disputes over wills, trusts, and estate administration. His expertise lies in meticulously analysing each case’s unique aspects and getting into the granular detail to find solutions and strategies to advance or resolve disputes.

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Liberty Chappel

Liberty Chappel

Liberty is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Real Estate Disputes team. She has a breadth of experience dealing with residential property matters including possession claims, forfeiture, service charge disputes and breach of long lease claims; acting for both landlords and tenants.

She regularly deals with professional negligence claims against both surveyors and solicitors relating to property and has extensive experience in this area. Her work also includes other property issues such as boundary and neighbour disputes, Party Wall etc Act issues, nuisance claims including obtaining injunctive relief to protect various property rights.

Liberty’s particular expertise is in advising and representing London Landed Estates in respect of general estate management issues.

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Charlotte Youngs

Charlotte Youngs

Charlotte is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team and is experienced in a broad range of commercial property work, including acquisitions/disposals, development projects, real estate finance and leasing. Her practice focuses on the acquisition and development of large and complex mixed-use sites as well as the disposal of commercial or mixed-use sites for institutional investors, affordable housing providers and private developers.

This often involves advising on joint venture structures, development agreements, planning and construction issues, option agreements, overage and pre-emption arrangements, building and land contract negotiation, infrastructure agreements and the structuring of each transaction in the most tax efficient manner.

She has a particular focus on the affordable housing sector, understanding policy and funding considerations for registered providers as well as the regulatory matters they need to consider in their developments. In recent years, Charlotte has also started advising on the Building Safety Act 2022 to ensure compliance within the affordable housing sector.

She has a particular interest in sustainability within real estate, and she plays an active role in our internal committee that helps shape our client offering. This includes advising on green lease provisions, other environmental and energy drafting as well as legal provisions to support social and place-making initiatives.

Charlotte is hands on in supporting junior members of the firm by offering guidance and comprehensive training on a number of topics, including residential and mixed-use developments and building safety.

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Claire Weaver

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Claire is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team with many years of experience in development and landlord and tenant matters, working for a variety of clients including developers, landlords and tenants.

Her practice focuses on retail parks and shopping centres in which she has developed a deep understanding of the changing face of how we shop, eat and relax. Her experience enables her to focus on solutions and work with all parties in a transaction to secure a positive outcome that is commercially viable.

Claire has a rich history with the firm where she was a young lawyer with us in our Frere Cholmeley Bischoff beginning. She was delighted to return to Forsters and experience the same collaborative ethos she fondly remembered. Claire now plays a key role in our EnaABLE network where she encourages equal opportunities for those with a disability.

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Colin Brown

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Colin is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team and is experienced in a wide range of commercial property matters, including acquisitions, disposals and general landlord and tenant matters across the office, industrial and logistics, and retail sectors.

Within his sector practice, Colin excels at structuring and negotiating leases, acquisitions, and dispositions, ensuring his clients’ interests are protected while maximising the value of their assets. His comprehensive understanding of acquisitions, disposals, property management and market dynamics allows Colin to adeptly guide clients through the intricacies of a commercial real estate transaction.

With a keen eye for detail and a proactive approach, he is dedicated to safeguarding the interests of his clients while facilitating successful and mutually beneficial deals in the dynamic landscape of commercial real estate.

He has a particular passion for shaping the landscape of communities through property transactions and the establishment of commercial space for businesses. His commitment to sustainable principles underscores a broader perspective in his practice as a commercial real estate lawyer, with a particular focus on ensuring clients not only comply with regulatory frameworks but consider future proofing their portfolios.

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Dan Cudlipp

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Dan is a solicitor specialising in construction disputes on large domestic developments, from the early stages of dispute avoidance and contract management on live projects, to TCC litigation regarding defective construction of completed projects.

A Senior Associate in the construction team, Dan’s clients operate across all sectors, including the development of large and complex distribution centres, data centres, high end residential and mixed use properties, and purpose built student accommodation.

He advises on the full range of issues that can lead to construction disputes, including defective construction but has particular expertise in construction disputes concerning buildings with cladding systems that do not provide adequate protection against the spread of fire.

Dan also advises clients in the event of contractor insolvency, providing advice on the immediate protection of the employer’s position, maintaining progress towards completion of the project and recovery of the employer’s losses arising from the insolvency.

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Charlie Croft

Charlie Croft

Charlie is a Senior Associate in our Commercial Real Estate team and offers a full service across the commercial property sector, with extensive experience in investment and development matters, as well as sale and leaseback deals.

He acts for institutional investors, developers, and joint ventures in a range of sectors, with a focus on industrial and logistics. His broad practice spans asset acquisition, development, management, disposal, financing.

Acting for developers, institutions, landlords, tenants, lenders and borrowers means Charlie can see the deal from all viewpoints and is able to identify key concerns and find commercial solutions to deal pinch points.

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Daniel Parker

Daniel Parker

Daniel is known for his strategic, empathetic and practical approach. He appreciates how important it is to work closely with clients, to truly understand their priorities to be able to form effective strategies and successful outcomes.

His mix of experience across non-contentious and contentious work has enabled him to support clients in litigation, dispute resolution, settlement agreements and wider-scale changes in the workforce, for clients in a range of sectors, including professional services, banking, global logistics, data analysis and private equity. Most recently, he has successfully defended wide-ranging and historic claims and allegations in the Employment Tribunal, achieved successful settlements in a number of employee competition cases and supported the successful resolution of a multi-million pound harassment claim against an LLP.

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Ryan Didcock

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Ryan is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Real Estate Disputes team where he advises on a broad range of property disputes with a particular specialism in residential matters.

His experience covers a broad range of issues, including landlord and tenant (breach of covenant, disrepair, rent recovery, possession, forfeiture, etc.), the Party Wall etc. Act 1996, fire safety and cladding disputes (with emphasis on leasehold obligations, service charge/remedial costs recovery, funding and BSF access, and lending complications), mortgagee/receiver action, service charges (including Section 20 consultation), claims in trespass, property trust disputes, nuisance and negligence, boundaries and adverse possession, collective enfranchisement, and debt claims. Ryan’s approach is always to seek practical aims, by litigation if necessary, at proportionate cost.

Ryan’s clients include individuals and private companies (as both landlord and tenants), property developers, receivers, banks and funds.

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Lorna Dolan

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Lorna is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team and advises on a full spectrum of transactions, from acquisitions and disposals, financings, landlord and tenant, and asset and portfolio management. She acts for a wide range of clients from institutional funds to property companies, developers, tenant occupiers and individuals.

A particular focus of her practice is advising commercial occupier clients on their occupational property needs, notably within the media, publishing, professional services and banking sectors. This includes premises and HQ relocations, disposals, lease extensions, regears, major refurbishment projects and portfolio management. She has a keen interest in sustainability and green leasing principles.

With Lorna’s breadth of experience, she is able to bespoke her advice to suit her clients’ needs. Appreciating that real estate is not the main focus of many of her occupier clients’ roles, she enjoys the challenge of conveying specialist legal knowledge in an accessible, practical, strategic and understandable way. Lorna approaches negotiations in a commercial and collaborative manner, and has a solutions-focused attitude.

Having trained and qualified at Forsters, Lorna has now taken on the role of trainee supervisor and enjoys being able to develop the next generation of Forsters’ lawyers.

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Aimee Dooley-Cox

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Aimee is a Senior Associate in the Private Client team specialising in high value complex probate matters and the administration of estates. She acts for a range of clients, generally high net worth individuals and families both UK domiciled, and non-UK domiciled.

Her core expertise is in estate administration, obtaining grants of representation in the UK for testate and intestate estates. Aimee is experienced with reporting the extent of estates in the UK and maximising reliefs where available to ensure the correct amount of inheritance tax is paid if due. She enjoys working with international individuals and assisting with cross border work.

Aimee works closely with the executors and beneficiaries to implement post death variations to ensure the estate is dealt with as swiftly and efficiently as possible.

Aimee is a full member of STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) and is currently undertaking the STEP Advanced Certificate in Cross-Border Estates. Aimee also volunteers at the South Westminster Legal Advice Centre.

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Dan Easom

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Daniel specialises in advising on non-contentious construction projects related to UK-based real estate development. He is experienced in drafting, negotiating and advising on JCT forms of building contract, professional team appointments, collateral warranties/third party rights and security documentation.

His expertise is in the construction of commercial real estate assets where he advises on the procurement route for construction works, as well as the legal documentation which is required for such works to be carried out.

Daniel acts for a wide variety of clients in the construction sector, including property developers, funders, purchasers and sellers, as well as institutional investors and high net worth individuals. He works across a variety of sectors including industrial and logistics, film and TV studios, residential, offices and later living.

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Edward Glass

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Edward Glass is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team and is experienced in a broad range of commercial property work, including acquisitions and disposals, development projects, real estate finance and leasing, where he advises across all property sectors. He also advises on the real estate aspects of corporate transactions.

He has a particular focus on sustainability trends in commercial real estate and contributes to various industry publications, such as EG and Property Week. In particular, he advises on green leasing, ESG regulation in the built environment and the co-location of renewable energy infrastructure with commercial real estate. Edward is also interested in the impact of technological innovation on the industry, particularly in the context of ESG factors.

Keeping abreast of trends impacting real estate sectors, Edward is able to advise his clients accordingly and ensure they are always ahead of the curve with industry developments. This is especially important with the ever-changing environment for sustainability and technological innovation.

Edward plays a key role in our graduate recruitment programme and mentoring trainees once they have joined the business.

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Georgina Haddon

Georgina Haddon

Georgina is a Senior Associate in the Residential Property team where she acts for both domestic and international clients on a variety of freehold and leasehold transactions, including acquisitions and disposals of prime London property, secured lending, management work, landlord and tenant advice.

Well versed in both single property transactions and large-scale portfolio investments and refinances, she is committed to exemplary client service irrespective of the size, value or nature of the matter.

She has a wealth of experience acting on luxury new build estates; both on the purchaser side for ultra high net worth investors and for large-scale developers. She has also travelled frequently to South East Asia, developing relationships in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

Georgina takes a commercial and solution focused approach to her transactions. She is decidedly aware that all matters are unique, as are the people and businesses behind them and aims to deliver carefully tailored advice accordingly.

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Christine Abbotts

Christine Abbotts

Christine is a Senior Associate and Mediator in the Family team where she is a dedicated family lawyer with a focus on ADR, specialising in the intricate areas of nuptial agreements, financial remedy and private children work. Her passion lies in providing personalised and effective legal solutions for families navigating these sensitive matters.

Christine has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating nuptial agreements, alongside an in-depth knowledge of the legal issues that can arise when implementing such agreements at the point of divorce.

She has proven success in representing clients in financial remedy proceedings, particularly in complex international litigation.

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Adam Jones

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Adam is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team where he provides advice in respect of the full lifecycle of a property, from initial acquisition to development, asset management, financing and disposal. He acts for a range of clients including developers, investors, landlords and tenants.

He has a particular foundation in industrial property, offices and business space and retail, but also has experience working on hotels, student accommodation and social housing. This breadth of experience allows Adam to consider multiple perspectives on matters in order to effectively safeguard his clients’ interest and propose solutions where issues arise.

Working closely with clients, Adam understands specific requirements on each transaction so that he can assist in achieving the desired outcomes in an efficient way, whilst protecting the client’s position. He provides clear and commercial advice, and is proactive in identifying solutions that will allow transactions to progress smoothly.

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Alexandra Burnaby

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Alexandra is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team and is an experienced and commercially-minded lawyer who advises on all aspects of non-contentious commercial real estate law.

She holds particular expertise in development projects and investment transactions within the office, industrial and logistics, retail and hospitality sectors. This often involves advising on the acquisition, disposal, development and asset management of commercial and mixed-use properties for family offices, high net worth individuals, developers, funds and property companies.

Alexandra works closely with our specialist Planning, Construction, Corporate, Banking and Finance and Tax teams, and enjoys collaborating to deliver the highest value to her clients – a mixed array of corporate buyers/sellers and borrowers/funders within the full spectrum of real estate asset classes.

Alexandra’s practice comprises all aspects of the property lifecycle, from entry to exit. She can advise on every stage of the transaction, offering advice to meet not only immediate requirements, but with an eye to the longer-term asset growth strategy.

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Alexandra Townsend-Wheeler

Alexandra Townsend-Wheeler

Alexandra is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team with a broad range of experience covering the entire property lifecycle, including development, investment, acquisitions, disposals and management and real estate finance.

Her practice covers a range of property sectors including industrial and logistics, retail, offices and business space, hotels and student accommodation, where she has gained a deep understanding of each sector’s intricacies.

Having worked in real estate since 2007, Alexandra has developed a specialism in development work where she has advised many of the firm’s long-standing developer clients on acquisitions, pre-lets and eventual disposals. She prides herself on establishing and maintaining good personable relationships with her clients, making the effort to understand their businesses and how they evolve over time with a view to delivering targeted, pragmatic and commercial advice.

Alexandra is also a member of our internal sustainability group which overviews the strategy of our client ESG offering. Within this group, she has developed a particular focus on renewable energy.

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Poornima Andrews

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Poornima is a Senior Associate in the Residential Property team where she advises on the full spectrum of residential property transactional work acting for private individuals, developers, overseas investors and companies.

In addition, she acts for private and international banks on all aspects of secured lending transactions.

Having worked in this sector for over 20 years Poornima has extensive experience and market knowledge, particularly in central London. This is crystallised in responsive and clear communication to all parties involved and an ability to navigate clients through the transactional process seamlessly regardless of the unique circumstances involved.

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Katharine Blake

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Katharine is a Senior Associate in our Dispute Resolution team and is experienced in handling highly complex and reputationally sensitive contentious matters. Katharine is considered to be a “diligent”, “trustworthy” and “knowledgeable” advisor by clients and colleagues.

She specialises in commercial disputes, with experience in shareholder class actions, consumer class actions, retail banking litigation, public inquiries, regulatory investigations and regulatory advice.

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Leila Box

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Leila is a Senior Associate in the Corporate team.

She is experienced in working on transactions involving real estate. Her practice sees her regularly advise clients in relation to acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, company restructuring and the nuances of commercial contracts.

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Jayne Beardmore

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Jayne is a Rural Property and Landed Estates Solicitor specialising in all aspects of agricultural property and estates, from sales and acquisitions to leases and easements and everything in between, incorporating mainly agricultural property, but also commercial and residential property where required.

Jayne also acts on refinancing of large estates (or property in general) acting for either the lender or the landowner, or both if the transaction allows.

In addition to the above, she is part of the firm’s Strategic Land group, and acts for landowners and promoters alike in the development of land. This can include drafting and negotiating option agreements, promotion agreements, collaboration agreements and development agreements to name a few (the list is not exhaustive).

She also acts for landowners in renewable energy arrangements to include solar and battery storage installations.

Jayne sits on a number of internal committees, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee, Race Support network and LGBTQ+ network.

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Lucie Bennett

Lucie Bennett

Lucie is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Private Client team where she acts primarily for international clients on a broad range of estate planning and personal taxation matters, including tax and succession planning, the preparation of wills and incapacity documents, and broader trust matters.

She has a particular focus on advising high net worth clients with US connections, such as in respect of the development and implementation of integrated estate plans. She assists US-connected individuals and trustees navigate the interplay between the US and UK systems, including advising on the application of the US/UK treaties to mitigate the risk of double taxation.

Lucie advises on the establishment of trusts for succession planning and asset protection purposes, and on the UK treatment of existing structures, which may involve trusts, partnerships and corporate vehicles.

She also provides advice to clients considering relocating to the UK to ensure that their affairs are arranged in a tax efficient manner before becoming UK resident. She has experience providing immigration advice to high net worth individuals using the (previous) UK Tier 1 (Investor) Visa and the UK “Spouse Visa”. She has also assisted clients with subsequent applications for Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK and naturalisation as a British citizen.

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Rebecca Bion

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Rebecca provides practical and holistic advice, which cuts through complex family, legal and taxation interests and gives clients the information they need to press on with their objectives. Her client base is varied, acting for UK-resident and domiciled individuals, landed estates, charities, large families, executors and trustees on all aspects of estate and succession planning, tax, trust and probate matters.

Her work includes the preparation of wills; capital tax planning advice, including the availability of agricultural or business property relief and ways to maximise those reliefs; the creation and administration of trusts and charities; complex and high-value probates and the administration of estates; and mental capacity issues, such as the preparation and registration of lasting powers of attorney, existing enduring powers of attorney and deputyship applications.

Rebecca has a particular experience of acting for land and business owners in setting up structures which aid the transfer of family assets between generations, including the availability of business property relief and agricultural property relief. She has extensive experience of advising on heritage property matters, including the availability of the conditional exemption, offers in lieu of tax and the interaction between the inheritance tax and estate duty regimes.

Her expertise extends to preparing deputyship applications and guiding clients through the associated court process, working closely with our Family and Divorce team where pre-nuptial agreements are desired, and advising on bespoke business agreements for landed estate business owners.

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