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ABBOTS HOUSE
ABBEY STREET
READING
RG1 3BD
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Russell May
Work Department
Property Dispute Resolution
Position
Russell is a senior associate – solicitor and head of the firm’s property disputes team and widely regarded as one of the Thames Valley’s leading property disputes lawyers. He has twenty years’ experience in dealing with a wide variety of property disputes involving both commercial and residential property.
Russell advises a number of high profile clients including national house builders and telecommunications companies on all aspects of development and landlord & tenant disputes. His areas of expertise also include disputed break clauses, rights of way, rights to light, adverse possession, restrictive covenants, boundary issues and contested leasehold enfranchisement.
Career
Russell trained in Reading, qualifying in 2000 and moving to Boyes Turner in 2009, where he now leads the property disputes team.
Memberships
He is a member of the Property Litigation Association and has ensured that the firm is now a member of the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners.
Leisure
Russell enjoys snowboarding, attending music gigs and going on walking holidays with his family.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Real estate > Property litigation
Counting residential sales and letting agencies, institutional landlords, and property management companies amongst its key clients, Boyes Turner’s real estate litigation team routinely handles residential block estate management dispute work and dilapidation claims, and is led by senior associate Russell May, who specialises in landlord and tenant disputes, as well as disputed break clauses. Associate Richard Pulford joined the firm in February 2022, and has over 11 years’ experience working on all aspects of property litigation, including possession and disrepair claims. The whole team is based in Reading.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Commercial property: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Public sector > Public sector
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40