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Natalie Deuchar

Natalie Deuchar

About Natalie’s work covers a broad range of residential and commercial landlord and tenant litigation. On the commercial side, Natalie’s practice includes advising landlords and tenants in connection with business lease renewal claims under the 1954 Act, break options, arrears claims and dilapidations. Natalie’s residential practice focuses on lease extension and collective freehold claims under the 1993 Act, tenants’ rights of first refusal, right to manage claims, and disputes in connection with breaches of lease for both landlords and tenants. Natalie is recognised in Chambers & Partners as an associate to watch. Natalie is admitted to practise in England and Wales. Experience \tNatalie acted for the successful leaseholders in a multi-million pound collective freehold acquisition claim to acquire the freehold of premises on Lancaster Gate. \tSuccessfully acted for a group of leaseholders to acquire the freehold of their property which had been transferred to a third party in breach of the provisions of the 1987 Act. \tAdvising a major UK restaurant chain in connection with its property portfolio
Sydney Forster

Sydney Forster

Sydney is a Chartered Legal Executive with nearly 10 year's experience in site set up, residential development and related matters. She qualified and gained a wealth of experience working in-house for a Sussex based developer, working on both large London-based regeneration and mixed-use development schemes, together with smaller, more unique developments. Sydney has worked in private practice since January 2020 and now handles complex site set up schemes across London and the South-East for both major housebuilders and smaller developers. Her expertise includes setting up estate management schemes for large multi-phased developments, drafting plot sales documentation and providing ongoing development advice throughout the lifetime of the scheme. She works closely with clients to establish their long-term goals and ensure that the disposals are structured to allow a clean reversionary sale to third parties or the resident's management company. Experience \tAdvising clients on the structure of sites for drafting purposes such as retaining ransom land, setting up a management company and putting in place freehold reversion contracts to allow the freehold to be dealt with free of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987. \tAdvising on the implications of private for-sale dwellings contributing to the service charge shortfall created by commercial premises. \tSetting up procedures for compliance and redemption of title matters such as Legal Charges, Restrictions and Overage Agreements. \tAdvising on and drafting plot documentation for the set-up of a large multi-phased development of over 1,000 dwellings in Sussex for a major housebuilder. \tActing on later living/retirement developments with complex communal area structuring with commercial elements available to members of the public.
Rachel Hearn

Rachel Hearn

Rachel advises employers and senior individuals on all manner of workplace issues including contractual disputes, discrimination and harassment complaints, maternity and paternity issues, restrictive covenants, and whistleblowing. She has particular experience advising clients in the financial services and private wealth sectors. Rachel has solid litigation experience, successfully bringing and defending claims in both the employment tribunal and the High Court. She also has experience in obtaining High Court injunctions. On the non-contentious side, Rachel regularly provides day-to-day advice to employers as well as drafting and advising on a wide range of employment documentation including employment contracts, consultancy agreements and company policies. Rachel also regularly advises on settlement negotiations and severance terms. She has a particular interest in disputes relating to restrictive covenants and the misuse of confidential information. Rachel is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and sits on its Training Committee. She regularly helps to organise and chair training sessions for members. Rachel is admitted to practice in England and Wales.
Tim Jenkins

Tim Jenkins

Tim is a corporate partner with over 25 years of experience in advising a wide range of clients on corporate and commercial matters. Tim heads the corporate group in our Guildford office and has particular expertise in advising clients on the sale and purchase of family owned businesses, pharmacy and veterinary practices. His work also includes advising on joint ventures, partnerships, shareholder agreements, demergers and restructuring, management buy-outs and the distressed sale/purchase of businesses. Tim is admitted to practice in England and Wales. Experience \tActing for Avicenna Group on a range of transactions including their acquisition of Dudley Taylor Pharmacy Group (operating 57 pharmacies across Yorkshire, the Midlands, the south of England and Wales) and their acquisition of Sheppards Pharmacy Group (operating 34 pharmacies across Wales) \tActing for the shareholders of Pharma-Z Ltd on the sale of the company (operating a group of 6 pharmacies across East Anglia) to Bestway National Chemists Ltd \tActing for X-Pharm Limited on its acquisition of 7 West Midlands based pharmacies from West Midlands Co-Operative Chemist Group \tActing for the owners of veterinary practice operator Eastcott Ltd on the sale of the company to Linnaeus Veterinary Group \tActing for the partners of Acorn House Veterinary Hospital on its sale to The Royal Veterinary College \tActing for owners of Rainbow Equine Hospital on the sale of the company to VetPartners Limited \tActing for the owners of Cinder Hill Equine Hospital Ltd on the sale of the company to CVS (UK) Limited.
Sophia Leeder

Sophia Leeder

Sophia advises on all areas of family law, including separation agreements, divorce, financial issues following separation and divorce, child contact and residence (or 'custody') issues and pre and post nuptial agreements. She also advises couples who are not married or in a Civil Partnership on issues arising on relationship breakdown, such as disputes over property, child contact and residence and financial claims for the maintenance of children under Schedule 1 of the Children Act. Sophia has particular experience with ToLATA disputes concerning property ownership claims brought by an unmarried individual against their former partner. Sophia acts for and against individuals across a broad range of industries and backgrounds – including hedge fund founders, entrepreneurs and those with family wealth arising from landed estates. She acts for individuals located in the UK and overseas, with many clients based in Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East. She has a strong interest in dealing with applications to the English Court for financial settlement following an overseas divorce. Sophia also has in-depth knowledge of the issues facing companies and trustees involved in financial proceedings upon a divorce and has a wealth of experience in advising such third parties. Sophia is admitted to practise in England and Wales.
Robert Lundie Smith

Robert Lundie Smith

Robert is recognised as a leading IP litigator. While having a particular focus on high-tech patent cases over recent years, including as part of large multijurisdictional FRAND / RAND licencing disputes, Robert’s practice embraces all aspects of IP rights and disputes. Experience \tAdvising on multiple multi-jurisdictional patent disputes relating to standard essential patents in the field of 2G, 3G and 4G telecommunications, in particular relating to the lower layers of the protocol stack, including before the High Court and Court of Appeal, including involving detailed jurisdictional issues and FRAND. \tAdvising in high court proceedings as part of a multi-jurisdictional patent dispute in the field of video codecs involving significant RAND, valuation and jurisdictional issues. \tAdvising on trade mark matters including in the field of renewable energies, the construction industry and tourism. \tAdvising in a high-tech patent dispute involving data centre technology and AI. \tAdvising in a patent dispute before the High Court concerning user interfaces for mobile devices. \tAdvising in a design right dispute in the field of electric vehicles. \tDefending patent infringement proceedings before the High Court as part of a multi-jurisdictional multi-patent medical device dispute involving dental imaging and orthodontics. \tAdvising in multi-jurisdictional patent dispute in the field of mobile device management.  
David McClenaghan

David McClenaghan

David is a Senior Associate in the Real Estate team with over 20 years’ experience in residential development acting on behalf of a wide range of home builders and developers. David’s work centres on the site set up aspects of development projects including the structuring of estate documentation in preparation for plot disposals, infrastructure matters, the sale of freehold reversionary interests, public open space transfers and similar disposals. David is admitted to practice in England and Wales. Experience \tActed for a major national homebuilder in connection with the private market unit elements of a 2000 plot development near Winchester. \tActed on behalf of a London based homebuilder in connection with a 200+ plot mixed use scheme in Isleworth comprising private market, affordable and commercial units. \tActed for two divisions of the UK’s largest homebuilder in connection with varied developments including recent projects in Horley, Watton, Red Lodge and Horsford. \tActed for the property development arm of a prominent retailer in connection with the private market units elements of a large mixed use scheme in Highams Park comprising private market and affordable units and a retail superstore. \tActed for the largest privately owned property company in the UK in connection with the redevelopment of a former BT site in Aldershot to provide private apartments.
Prav Reddy

Prav Reddy

Prav deals in corporate and personal insolvency for office holders, creditors, debtors, banks and distressed companies. He has expertise in both transactional and contentious insolvency. Prav specialises in office holder-driven contentious work, including undervalue, preference, misfeasance and s423 actions. He also has significant experience in administration work. His personal insolvency work focuses on asset recoveries and disputes relating to trusts and beneficial interests. Expertise: advising the board of a Plc regarding solvency issues; asset tracing overseas in bankruptcy; 'bankruptcy tourism’ and COMI shifting; voluntary arrangements, unfair prejudice and material irregularity (individual and company); pursuing officers for antecedent/pre-insolvency dispositions; misfeasance claims; LPA receiverships; and pre-packaged sales of an international travel business, financial services company, chain of pubs, international hotel chain and TV channel.