Rachel Croft

Corporate, Commercial

Rachel is a Consultant and Solicitor Advocate, within the Corporate Commercial and Real Estate teams of the firm, specialising in real estate disputes.

Rachel trained with Hammonds (now Squire Patton Boggs), qualifying as a solicitor of England and Wales in September 2007. She joined the London office of leading litigation firm Herbert Smith Freehills upon qualification, where she remained for the next ten years. Rachel’s previous firm is known for its focus on large-scale, complex, high-value commercial real estate disputes. Rachel has acted on multiple high-profile real estate disputes in the High Court and Lands Tribunal, as well as various county court disputes.  She has extensive experience in general commercial disputes which involve real estate assets, such as breach of contract and misrepresentation claims.

Rachel’s practice encompasses the full spectrum of real estate disputes, with substantial experience of development work, major public infrastructure projects and resulting compulsory purchase compensation claims. She has acted on vacant possession issues, service charge disputes, dilapidations claims, restrictive covenant issues, rent reviews, renewal of business tenancies and professional negligence matters. Rachel deals with many matters from start to finish, providing strategic input at the pre-action stage with a view to avoiding litigation where possible and has extensive experience of preparing cases for mediation, to assist clients in settling cases without the costs and uncertainties of trial.

Solicitor Advocate (2010) Legal Practice Course, York (2004) Law LL.B (Hons.), University of Exeter (2003)