Sam Heitlinger

14 August 2025

Sam is a Senior Associate and Solicitor Advocate in the Commercial Disputes team, with broad experience advising clients in relation to litigation, international arbitration and investigations involving a diverse range of sectors. Sam has worked at two major international law firms in London and Paris, and is proficient in French and German.

Sam has advised on investment treaty arbitrations, group actions, professional negligence claims, commercial arbitrations, joint venture disputes, banking investigations, public inquiries, House of Commons Select Committee inquiries, partnership disputes, defamation claims, crisis management and in relation to anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance. Sam has notable experience in the professional services, energy, infrastructure, financial services and telecommunications sectors.

Sam has Higher Rights of Audience and has performed advocacy at various trials.

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Amy Barton

13 May 2025

Amy is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Private Client team advising on all aspects of personal taxation, succession planning and family governance. Amy has experience advising UK and non-UK tax resident individual and corporate clients with connections to and assets in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the US.

She started her career as a corporate tax lawyer and has advised individuals and companies on tax matters in respect of asset and share disposals, acquisitions, liquidations and corporate restructures; often with a cross-border element. Amy has experience in advising on the tax and structuring considerations involved with charitable giving.

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Alex Greenwood

10 December 2024

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 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

26 November 2024

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

8 November 2024

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

18 October 2024

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

14 October 2024

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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Emily Wyatt

8 October 2024

Emily is a Senior Associate in the Family team.

She specialises in all aspects of private family law including divorce and separation, financial claims, child arrangements, and pre and post-nuptial agreements. She also acts for unmarried individuals on matters relating to cohabitation and Schedule 1 claims.

Emily has experience of complex financial cases, including those involving trusts and family businesses, and those with cross-border elements.

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Sophie Togwell

21 September 2024

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

She advises a variety of clients in drafting and negotiating amendments to JCT forms of building contract, professional team appointments and collateral warranties. Sophie also has experience in carrying out due diligence in relation to the sale and purchase of various types of types of real estate assets.

Sophie has acted for a wide variety of clients in the construction sector including developers, funders, purchasers, and sellers.

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Sophie Smith

21 September 2024

Sophie is a Senior Associate in the Planning team.

She advises developers, investors and occupiers on section 106 agreements and highways related matters including section 278 and 38 agreements.

Sophie regularly undertakes planning due diligence for commercial developments, including complex phased development schemes to be delivered over extended periods of time. Sophie is experienced in acting for both lenders and borrowers on financing transactions, providing commercially focused planning advice.

She advises regularly on rural property transactions and heritage matters including listed buildings. Sophie has a particular interest in the provisions of the Environment Act 2021 and the associated planning requirements to deliver biodiversity net gain.

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Timothy Evans

21 September 2024

Timothy specialises in a wide range of private family law including divorce and separation, financial claims, private children law (including Schedule 1 claims), domestic abuse claims under the Family Law Act, and pre- and post-nuptial agreements.

He has experience of complex financial disputes often with an international element and also of contested divorce suits where jurisdiction has been challenged. Alongside work involving business valuations and trust structures, he has experience with interlocutory applications such as for legal services payments orders (LSPO) and interim maintenance. Timothy has been involved in cases which challenge beneficial interests in property and he also has experience in protecting property rights during the divorce and separation process. He also acts for separating clients who wish to avoid the court process and has experience of alternative forms of dispute resolution such as mediation and round table meetings along with solicitor negotiation.

Timothy acts for parents who are having difficulties resolving child arrangements, both inside and outside of court, and which may involve cross-border considerations. He also has experience of protecting victims of domestic abuse, including (when necessary) representing clients in final and fact finding hearings. Timothy works with other professionals such as independent social workers to best serve his clients.

Timothy has commentated on family law issues, having been published in the Solicitors’ journal and the International Law Office. Timothy also runs a pro bono clinic in conjunction with Citizens Advice Wandsworth and sits on the charity committee at Forsters.

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Rebecca Anstey

21 September 2024

Rebecca is a Senior Associate in our Private Client team.

She acts for both UK based and international clients, advising individuals, families, and trustees on a broad range of estate planning and taxation matters.

Rebecca’s work includes the preparation of wills and lasting powers of attorney, advising on related tax planning, and trust structuring and administration. She has experience advising on residence and domicile and on US/UK cross-border matters.

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Remy Ormesher

21 September 2024

With broad experience acting for both individuals and employers, Remy’s expertise includes contentious and non-contentious matters across a wide range of sectors.

She has advised on restructurings, redundancies, TUPE and the employment aspects arising from corporate transactions. This includes advising on disciplinary and grievance procedures, and drafting employment documentation. Her experience supporting individuals includes advising senior executives on all areas of their employment, including negotiating service and settlement agreements.

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Olivia Carter

21 September 2024

Olivia is a Senior Associate in the Private Client team, specialising in the full range of cross-jurisdictional private client matters for ultra high net worth individuals, family offices and fiduciaries.

She advises on complex personal tax and estate planning across multiple jurisdictions, often advising clients on the creation of offshore trusts for asset protection and succession purposes. Her practice includes advising international families on family governance, the creation, administration and taxation of trusts, and relocating to or from the UK.

Olivia is also very experienced in the preparation of wills, often with a cross-border element, and Lasting Powers of Attorney.

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Polly Calver

21 September 2024

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

21 September 2024

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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Madeleine Cryer

21 September 2024

Madeleine is a Senior Associate in our Trust and Estate Disputes team.

She acts for a wide range of UK and international clients including high net worth individuals, trustees and professionals. She has advised on a range of trust and estate claims, including rectification and rescission applications, trustee removal, issues relating to capacity and charity law. Madeleine has experience acting in the English Courts and in offshore jurisdictions, including the BVI, Guernsey, The Bahamas and the Cayman Islands.

Madeleine joined Forsters in August 2024 from Macfarlanes LLP where she trained and qualified as a solicitor.

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Lukas Saul

21 September 2024

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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Mark Berry

21 September 2024

Mark is a Senior Associate in the Banking and Finance team. He has extensive experience in real estate finance, general corporate finance and acquisition financing, including in cross-border contexts.

His real estate finance experience has covered various industry sectors in both an investment and development context, as well as acting on Islamic finance/conventional hybrid debt structures for both UK and overseas entities.

Mark acts for a wide variety of both lenders and borrowers, such as high street banks, challenger banks and high net worth individuals on the lender side and real estate investment companies, developers and corporate purchasers on the borrower side.

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Natalie Colclough

21 September 2024

Natalie is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Corporate team.

She advises on a wide range of corporate matters, including private company mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and reorganisations with a particular focus on early stage and series funding for start-ups and emerging companies.

Natalie has advised on complex transactions across various jurisdictions and sectors, including technology, energy, healthcare, sports and food and hospitality, and has worked on fundraising rounds from the perspectives of both the start-up or emerging company, on the one hand, and the angel investor, venture capitalist and investment fund, on the other, providing client focussed advice and solutions to both.

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Jessica Scarlett

21 September 2024

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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Lauren Spark

21 September 2024

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

Lauren has a breadth of experience across commercial and residential property disputes.

She advises on a wide range of contentious property issues, including rights of light, leasehold enfranchisement, service charge disputes, dilapidations, rent arrears recovery, break rights, business lease renewals and forfeiture.

Lauren has acted for some of the largest London estates in respect of their residential property portfolios; food and beverage companies in relation to their portfolios of pubs and restaurants; pension funds and investment companies; retail stores and shopping centres; government entities; and charities.

She sat on the Future Leaders Committee of the Council For Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat from April 2022 to October 2023.

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Freddie Hunter

21 September 2024

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

21 September 2024

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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Ella Jones

21 September 2024

Ella is a Senior Associate in the Planning team.

Ella has particular experience in dealing with residential developments and the provision of affordable housing.

Specialising in planning since 2020, she enjoys undertaking planning due diligence for acquisitions of residential and commercial sites as well as due diligence for financing transactions acting for both lenders and borrowers.

She provides tailored advice to a wide variety of clients including hotel groups, private individuals and care provides. The advice that she provides centres on listed buildings, community infrastructure levy, use classes and affordable housing.

Ella also regularly negotiates various agreements including section 106 agreements, section 278 and 38 agreements and nomination agreements with councils and clients across the country.

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Adrian Palladino

21 September 2024

Adrian is a Senior Associate in the Corporate team.

He has experience advising clients on general corporate matters, capital raising, statutory buy-backs of company securities, shareholder arrangements, joint ventures and private company acquisitions and disposals.

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Albert Bell

21 September 2024

Albert is a Senior Associate in the Construction team, specialising in non-contentious matters.

He advises purchasers, developers, funders and end users on building contracts, consultant appointments and associated documents such as guarantees, bonds and collateral warranties. He has additional experience providing advice in relation to engineering contracts and process plant, and assisting main contractors with their sub-contract terms and processes.

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Anna Penn

21 September 2024

Anna is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team where she advises on a variety of real estate matters including commercial development, acquisitions, disposals and asset management. Her practice primarily covers the industrial and logistics, office and business space, mixed-use asset and retail sectors.

She represents a variety of clients including pension funds and other institutional investors, property developers and corporate occupiers.

Striving to always progress transactions efficiently, Anna is proactive and remains focused on her clients’ commercial goals. She keeps in regular contact with clients and provides clear and tailored advice in a friendly manner.

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Nick Southworth

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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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Adam Saunby

29 August 2024

Adam is a trusted adviser to high net worth individuals and owners of some of England and Wales’ most iconic landed estates and farms. With a strategic understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing rural landowners today, Adam works to ensure they remain resilient and adaptable in a changing legal and environmental landscape.

Adam’s work includes complex transactions and long-term estate management, covering agricultural, commercial and residential property. A key focus of Adam’s practice is the evolving role of land in delivering environmental benefits. He advises on natural capital projects and biodiversity net gain agreements, helping clients navigate emerging markets and regulatory frameworks while safeguarding the long-term value of their assets.

Adam also acts for estates and landowners in refinancing substantial property portfolios, often collaborating with Forsters’ Banking and Finance team to deliver tailored solutions. His experience includes negotiating option and pre-emption agreements, contracts conditional on planning consent, and structuring complex overage arrangements on farms and estates.

Recognising that rural property ownership often intersects with broader wealth and business considerations, Adam works closely with colleagues across Forsters to provide a fully integrated service. This includes drawing on expertise in private wealth planning, tax, property litigation, planning, corporate, employment and banking.

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Vicky Sheehan-Dare

29 August 2024

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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Daniel Steele

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

Recognised in the 2025 eprivateclient NextGen Leaders list, 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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Jo Thompson

29 August 2024

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.

She advises both UK domestic and international clients on a wide range of tax and estate planning matters. She frequently acts for families who have cross-border personal and business interests, providing them with trust structuring, succession planning and family governance advice.

Jo has specialist expertise in advising clients from the art world, including art collectors and living artists. She advises on all matters relating to owning art, including sales and purchases; establishing tax efficient ownership structures; and advice on collection management, which includes planning in relation to heritage property.

Described as “fantastic to work with”, Jo is named in both the Art and Cultural Property and the Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate rankings of the latest Legal 500.

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Tina Strong

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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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Jessica Wheeler

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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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Lauren Melachrino

29 August 2024

Lauren is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Real Estate team.

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Dean Monk

29 August 2024

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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Laura Neal

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

She advises on both residential and commercial property issues and her experience includes landlord-tenant disputes, possession claims, service charge disputes, lease extensions, lease renewals and neighbour disputes.

Her clients include individuals, trusts, charities and landed estates.

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Patrick Feeney

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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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Mary-Anne Twomey

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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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Naomi McLean

29 August 2024

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 is a full member of STEP (The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners).

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Natalie Parsons

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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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Georgina Reeves

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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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Anna Ferster

29 August 2024

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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Amy Fullerton

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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 UK 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, for example in the US, 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

29 August 2024

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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Catriona Hoyes

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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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Katie Hibbs

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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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Grace Cassidy

29 August 2024

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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James Carpenter

29 August 2024

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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Lanna Chen

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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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Rory Carter

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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.

Daniel was named as a Leading Associate in Partnership matters by the Legal 500 UK 2026 and also mentioned in the Senior Executive and Employer categories.

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Lorna Dolan

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

Recognised in the 2025 eprivateclient NextGen Leaders list, 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 has completed the STEP Advanced Certificate in Cross-Border Estates. Aimee also volunteers at the South Westminster Legal Advice Centre.

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Dan Easom

29 August 2024

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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Georgina Haddon

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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 retail and hospitality, industrial and logistics, offices and residential 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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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

29 August 2024

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.

Rebecca is also a qualified Notary Public, which provides a useful (and uncommon) additional skill that is helpful to her wider practice.

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