Clare Gregory > Clarke Willmott LLP > Cardiff, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile

Led by the ‘outstanding’ Clare Gregory, Clarke Willmott LLP provides ‘solutions-focused advice’ to investors, developers and funders across an increasingly broad range of commercial property matters, including work on site acquisitions and disposals such as within the energy sector. The team also remains very active in the social housing space, with Vicky Kells ‘extremely knowledgeable of lender requirements and current practice’, ensuring she is very popular among housing associations which are enabled to ‘make quicker and more informed decisions on properties being accepted in security’. Julia Morris advises commercial landlords on estate management as well as construction and development arrangements.

Providing ‘solutions-focused advice’ to an ever-expanding roster of Wales-based housing associations, the ’very knowledgeable and helpful’ team at Clarke Willmott LLP is appreciated in particular for its finance expertise in the space. With deep practical fee-earning experience and membership of the Property Finance Working Group, the ‘outstanding’ Vicky Kells is ‘extremely knowledgeable of lender requirements’, ensuring that bank and bond financings proceed very smoothly. The ‘cool, calm and collected’ Fraser MacRae has excellent insight as a result of his balanced lender/borrower offering and is a key contact across a range of secured funding transactions, from bilateral/syndicated loans through to private placements involving institutional investors. Outside the firm’s finance work, Clare Gregory provides ‘responsive and solutions-oriented’ advice to RSLs on acquisitions, disposals and developments.