Shoosmiths LLP

Soma is a Senior Associate real estate lawyer based in Milton Keynes.

She works with a wide range of clients, including property investors, landowners, developers and corporate occupiers. Soma also supports the corporate team on the real estate aspects of business sales and acquisitions.

Soma’s experience includes sales and acquisitions together with the negotiation of agreements for lease, leases and leasehold management documentation. She also assists in the sale, purchase and letting of agricultural land and has acted for charities on the purchase and sale of land.

Soma's recent projects include:

• assisting as part of a team in connection with the sale of agricultural land for the sum of £10.1 million;
• acting for a developer in the acquisition of land for mixed use development;
• negotiating licences for alterations to permit corporate identity works for an international car manufacturer; and
• processing the assignments of a portfolio of 40 leases for a national care home provider.

Prior to joining Shoosmiths, Soma read law with International Relations at Keele University (including spending a semester abroad in Canada), before completing her Legal Practice course in London.