Leading partners
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Lester Aldridge LLP
Mark Benham is a Partner in the Real Estate team. Mark is an experienced property lawyer and has regional and national clients including national housebuilders, PLCs and care home providers. Mark advises developers and landowners generally on land development, strategic issues, and structuring transactions. Mark also advises on commercial landlord & tenant matters.
Lester Aldridge LLP
Suki Samra is a Partner in the Real Estate team. Suki acts for a broad range of commercial clients including companies, financial institutions, high net worth individuals and household names, advising on their property requirements. He has a strong focus on landlord and tenant work and enfranchisement, acting for landlords and property investors with a wide portfolio of commercial property. Suki and his team also provide volume property services to financial institutions on their secured lending work to telecom companies on their infrastructure projects and housebuilders on plot sales.
Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP
Craig has 20 years’ experience in commercial property acting for a variety of clients, in a number of sectors. He specialises in all aspects of commercial property work, with a particular emphasis on property finance, regularly acting for a wide variety of lenders, insolvency practitioners, property receivers, public bodies, charities, education institutions, investors, developers and commercial clients. Recent experience includes acting for a client on a conditional sale to a supermarket chain, an option to acquire commercial premises, acquisition of a disused airfield, a sale and lease back of an office and factory complex, acquisition of a ship building facility and the purchase of a cemetery. Craig leads the 20 strong real estate team based in Plymouth and heads our property finance work nationally. He led on the property elements of the Game administration following the collapse of the retailer (which had over 600 shops) at Easter 2012.
Steele Raymond LLP
Emma specialises in residential development and social housing working with private developers, regional and national housebuilders and regional and national registered providers of social housing. Emma has extensive experience in all aspects of development work and has been central to some of the key strategic land assemblies, joint ventures and site acquisitions in the South. She was formerly the sole external legal adviser to the Hampshire Alliance for Rural Affordable Housing (HARAH).Emma is a recognised expert in social housing development by the Legal 500 with a caseload covering sites across the south coast from Brighton to Plymouth.
Steele Raymond LLP
Chris is a partner and head of the firm’s commercial property team. Chris is also a member of the firm’s management board.Chris is a very capable commercial property lawyer and has been recognised by the Legal 500 (a key independent guide to the legal profession) as one of only two commercial property ‘Leading Individuals’ in the Dorset and South Wiltshire region consistently for the last three years.Chris has overseen a doubling of the size of the firm’s commercial property team in the last four years.Chris is also a former legal trustee of Julia’s House, the Dorset and Wiltshire children’s hospices charity.
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Leading associates
Rising stars with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Steele Raymond LLP
Rosanna is a Solicitor in the Commercial Property Team.  Rosanna deals with a wide variety of commercial property work including freehold and leasehold disposals and acquisitions, lease renewals, surrenders and lease assignments.