Slater Heelis

Residential Property

Zara is a Partner and Head of the Residential Property team at Slater Heelis. Zara joined the firm in February 2016 after her former firm, Darbys LLP, were merging with Knights Professional Services Limited. Zara spent just under two years at Darbys LLP and prior to this she spent seven years in a national city centre firm where she gained superb experience in all aspects of residential property transactions, ranging from sale and purchase transactions to boundary disputes and Landlord and Tenant issues.

Zara has a wide variety of clients and has acted for numerous sports personalities. She is often asked to act for high net worth individuals in complex property transactions. She also acts for lending institutions providing short term lending. Zara has a number of loyal clients and contacts and most of her work is generated from personal recommendations. Zara has strong links with numerous sports personalities and regularly gets asked to act on their behalf in complex sale and purchase transactions as well as drafting and approving Tenancy Agreements.

Trained at Hill & Co in Altrincham Cheshire, qualified in 2003; Lawson Coppock & Hart Manchester, solicitor 2004-08; George Davies LLP Manchester, associate 2008-13; Mills & Reeve LLP Manchester, associate 2013-14; Darbys Solicitors LLP, partner 2014-16; joined Slater Heelis as partner February 2016.

English, Urdu and Punjabi

Parrs Wood High School, Manchester, 1994. Xaverian College Manchester, A levels English Languade, Business Studies abd Psychology, 1996; University of Huddersfield LLB Hons Law Degree, 2000; College of Law Chester, Legal Practice Course 2002

Attending the gym, travelling and attending networking events