Emily Wood > DMH Stallard LLP > Guildford, England > Lawyer Profile
DMH Stallard LLP Offices
1ST FLOOR, WONERSH HOUSE
THE GUILDWAY, OLD PORTSMOUTH ROAD
GUILDFORD
GU3 1LR
England
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Emily Wood
Work Department
Real Estate Dispute Resolution
Position
Emily is Partner and Head of the real estate dispute resolution group and is based in the firm’s Gatwick office.
Career
Emily has more than 20 years of experience working on a wide range of complex and volume commercial real estate dispute matters. She has acted for a variety of private and public sector clients including local authorities, developers, hotel operators, retailers, educational institutions, pension funds, investors and not-for-profit organisations.
Emily’s property management expertise encompasses dealing with contested dilapidation claims and 1954 Act renewals, service charge disputes and possession claims, and she also has significant experience in development related issues including advising on restrictive covenants, conditional agreements, rights to light, overage disputes and enforcement of contractual obligations. In addition, Emily specialises in contested business rates appeals.
Emily prides herself on her commercial, responsive and measured approach to matters.
Work highlights
- Emily’s current workload includes acting for a national house builder in a significant dispute with a utility company, and for a national bank on its application to the Upper Tribunal seeking compensation from a local authority. She is also dealing with a potential significant repair claim for a national retailer.
Languages
English
Memberships
- Member of Property Litigation Law Reform Committee
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Real estate > Property litigation
(Leading partners)DMH Stallard LLP���s real estate dispute resolution group uses a ‘collaborative team approach’, drawing upon its resources from the Guilford and Gatwick offices to handle property-related professional negligence claims and contentious issues relating to development sites. Practice head Emily Wood boasts over 20 years’ experience working on commercial real estate disputes, while ‘professional and tenacious’ Tina George specialises in enfranchisement and lease extension work. James Picknell has expertise in handling landlord and tenant disputes, and Cheraine Williams focuses on dilapidation claims and contested 1954 Act lease renewals.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners South East > Real estate > Property litigation
- Property litigation South East > Real estate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Environment and planning
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Property litigation
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate