Shoosmiths LLP

Real Estate North

Rachel is a Senior Associate within our core Real Estate team, based in our Manchester office. She provides strategic and commercial advice on a wide range of real estate law issues, growing in specific expertise as a development lawyer. Rachel advises a broad spectrum of national clients, including a number of well-known national housebuilders and developers as well as retail clients across a range of sectors including commercial development, residential development, retail and student living. Rachel has experience in acquisitions and disposals, conditional contracts and asset management work as well as gaining more exposure to larger site assembly and title reporting matters. Rachel prides herself on knowing her client's businesses and building strong relationships with development managers, property teams and the agents that support them.

Rachel studied at Leicester University, with an Erasmus year abroad in Malta before moving to Manchester to study the LPC. She trained at a small Manchester firm and qualified into Eversheds in 2016. She joined Shoosmiths in October 2022 as a Senior Associate, after spending a year in-house at THG as their sole property counsel.