Tees Law

Lucy Beck

Senior Associate Lucy joined Tees in 2021 as an Associate Solicitor in the Commercial Property Department. She qualified as a solicitor in 2017 and has worked in the South Essex area for the whole of her post-qualified career. She has a vast range of property experience, including: \tAsset site acquisitions and disposals \tAll aspects of Landlord and Tenant matters and asset management \tStrategic land development schemes including option agreements, conditional contracts, clawback/overage agreements, promotion agreements \tSecured lending and refinancing of portfolios, including bridging finance with experience acting for borrowers, lenders only and dual representation \tActing for charities on a wide range of property related matters

Suzanne Bradbury

Associate Licensed Conveyaner and Team Leader of the Real Estate Team (Chelmsford office)

Aaron Cane

Executive Partner Aaron is experienced in a wide range of matters including working on multi-million pound development and regeneration projects as well as acting for investors in their acquisition and portfolio management work. Aaron represents prominent house builders on all types of property development work as well as banks, dealing with secured lending and restructuring. Clients include international companies where commercial property interests in the UK are handled.

Chris Claxton-Shirley

Senior Associate Chris is a Senior Associate Solicitor in the Private Client team at Tees. He can assist with a range of issues including Court of Protection work, the creation and administration of trusts, estate & tax planning, lasting powers of attorney, registration of Enduring Powers of Attorney, Wills and probate.

Sarah Coates

Tim Deeming

Partner Tim has over two decades of experience working exclusively on medical negligence claims supporting families and individual. His areas of particular expertise include Catastrophic injury; Birth trauma; Brain/Spinal injury; Limb loss/amputation and Inquests.

Tracey Dickens

Daniel Fairs

Partner Daniel specialises in a wide range of commercial property transactions, such as: \tActing on sales and acquisitions of commercial property in England and Wales \tActing for land owners and developers and promoters in promotion agreements, option agreements, overage agreements and conditional agreements \tNegotiating and advising landlords and tenants in relation to new and existing leases \tAdvising landlords and tenants in relation to lease renewals, lease surrenders, lease extensions and under-lettings \tActing for banks, private lenders and borrowers in connection with development loans and general financing for working capital which is then secured against land and property

Lucy Folley

Partner Lucy is a partner in the corporate and commercial department specialising in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and collaborations as well as handling the corporate aspects of running a business, including finance. Expertise in commercial matters includes advising on large outsourcing projects in various sectors and dealing with contracts for a wide variety of services.

Nicola Havers

Joint Head of Private Client Nicola is an Executive Partner and joint Head of the Private Client Department. Nicola has worked in this field for more than a decade and has extensive experience in all areas, but her particular area of interest is Trust work. She provides advice on the creation, management and cessation of Trusts, as well as acting as a professional Trustee herself for many of her clients. She also has considerable knowledge of succession and tax planning for rural clients.

Ana James-Pittau

Senior Associate Ana is an Associate in the Dispute Resolution team at Tees Law, based in our Chelmsford office. She qualified as a Solicitor in January 2017 and worked as a Paralegal since 2010. She joined Tees in October 2019. She advises on contentious matters for both corporate and private clients, including: Contractual disputes Debt recovery Civil fraud Intellectual property disputes Reputational disputes including defamation Building disputes Misrepresentation Partnership and Company Disputes Insolvency Enforcement Alternative dispute resolution She has also previously advised on GDPR, employment law and Personal Injury and is able to draw on this knowledge to resolve relevant issues

Katherine Jameson

Baljeet Kaur

Partner Baljeet qualified as a solicitor in 2013 and is now a Partner advising business clients on all aspects of a company and commercial law including asset and share acquisitions and disposals, joint venture agreements and partnership agreements. Her experience also includes drafting an array of commercial contracts. The advice she provides to any one client can vary from providing business contract advice to governance related advice. She acts for a variety of clients which include high net worth individuals, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and charities in a number of different industry sectors such as manufacturing, transport and logistics, retail, technology, software, insurance and leisure.

Polly Kerr

Senior Associate Polly has extensive litigation experience, advising in both commercial and civil disputes but, over the years, she has become a highly specialist education lawyer, assisting parents and schools in a multitude of education-related matters; both contentious and non-contentious. Being the only lawyer from a family of teachers, the niche field of education law was a natural career progression for her. Examples of the kind of educational legal work she undertakes includes: \tSpecial Education Needs advice; requesting Education Health and Care Needs Assessments, draft EHCP reviews, Annual and Emergency Reviews, Appeals in the First Tier Tribunal, Appeals to the Upper Tribunal \tSchool Exclusions \tDisability Discrimination \tOther forms of discrimination \tEducational Negligence \tSchool Admission Appeals \tFailure to Ensure Attendance Prosecutions \tUniversity Disciplinary Processes, including some of the most serious allegations including sexual assault and rape, physical assault, harassment etc. \tAllegations of academic malpractice \tJudicial Review \tChange to status of schools. \tReputational Risk \tSafeguarding As a result of her experience in the practice of education law, she has been a governor of several schools over the last 16 years (including primary, secondary, and specialist setting. She is also a trustee of SPACE, a Hertfordshire-based charity for neurodiverse children and young people and their families. She is a regular contributor of articles to an education-centric publication in Essex and has previously had an article published in the Education Law Association's circular. She has recently appeared on ITV news, to speak about SEND. Polly has delivered training to schools, local authorities, and parents in relation to Special Educational Needs and the law in practice and provides support monthly to the local branch of a national charity attending their special educational needs focused advice clinics to support their volunteers.

Catherine Mowat

Senior Partner Catherine is Partner in the private client department, leading the Cambridge team, specialising in wills, estate planning and administration, trust creation and management, Court of Protection and powers of attorney, acts as professional deputy. She has particular expertise in succession and estate planning for rural clients.

Kay Piper

Partner Kay has a broad knowledge of all types of property transactions; including development acquisitions and sales, option and overage agreements, re-financing, leases, general property, land or farm sales and purchases, leasehold enfranchisement, lease extensions, rights of first refusal and multi-use buildings. Kay acts for a wide range of clients, such as large commercial companies, property developers, farm and land owners, landlords, tenants and experienced property investors.

Victoria Sandberg

Sara Stabler

Senior Associate Sara focuses on commercial and proactive advice on law and strategy so as to achieve client objectives whilst minimising risks and cost. Areas of specialism include: Contested Trust and Probate disputes; TLATA disputes; Business disputes (partnerships, shareholders, directors); Complex contract disputes; Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Sarah Walker

Partner Executive Partner and joint Head of the Private Client Department. Sarah has extensive experience in all areas of private client work including estate and inheritance tax planning, wills, Lasting Powers of Attorney, estate administration and trusts. She has particular interest and experience in Anglo-French matters and assists many clients with preparing French wills, advising on French estate and inheritance tax planning and dealing with estates including French assets.

Alexander Waples

Partner I am a partner in our commercial and agricultural property team, based out of our Cambridge offices. I have been with the firm since 2015 and qualified as a solicitor in September 2017. I act predominantly for a wide range of landowning clients, including individual clients, partnerships, corporate entities as well as landed estates. I am also a key part of the firm’s renewable energy team and typically undertake the following work types; \tActing on sales and acquisitions of commercial property \tActing for land owners and developers in promotion, option and overage agreements and conditional contracts \tBuying and selling farms and agricultural land \tSetting up development sites and assisting our company commercial team in property related aspects of mergers and acquisitions \tAssisting farmers with farming partnership agreements \tActing for both developers and landowners in relation to renewable energy schemes including solar, wind, battery storage and anaerobic digestion Recent work highlights include: \tActing for a renewable solar developer on a 50MW co-located solar and battery storage scheme – enough power to supply up to 16,000 homes \tActing on a farm sale to consortium buyers with overage provisions and a headline sale price in excess of £7.5m \tActing for a developer in the acquisition of a residential development site with a gross development value in excess of £10m

Robert Whitaker

Executive Partner Rob is based in the Bishop's Stortford office and is head of Tees’ employment law department. He is executive partner for the business team - which comprises employment and company and commercial law teams. He has over 20 years’ experience specialising in employment law, in particular in TUPE, and strategic advice around re-organisations and redundancies. He also advises on equality act claims with a particular focus on disability claims and "reasonable adjustments". He has a Masters in anti-discrimination law and is a member of the employment lawyers association. He also advises on GDPR and data issues and is Tees’ data protection officer.

Jane Winfield

Partner Jane is Head of Commercial Property in the Brentwood office and Tees Training Principal, responsible for the Tees Trainee programme. She is experienced in dealing in all aspects of commercial property work including acquisitions and disposals, leases, assets management, investment and property finance with her niche area being landlord and tenant. Her specialisms include acting on behalf of landlords and tenants, whether they be investment landlords, corporate tenants, private landlords or SME tenants. she also has extensive experience in acting for buyers and sellers of commercial property, whether freehold, leasehold, sole traders or investment owners.