England - London • Real estate
Fieldfisher
Fieldfisher‘s practice has experience working on complex and high-profile real estate disputes in London. In particular, the team is known for its strong track record in the fields of preemptive injunctive relief and professional negligence. Antony Phillips leads the team and specialises in dilapidations and secured lending recoveries. Other key figures include Lesley Webber, who has over 40 years of experience with rent reviews.
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Testimonials
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‘The Fieldfisher team are responsive, knowledgeable and fully understand our business. They are on-hand to advise and act on complex matters.'
‘Faye Hyland is an exceptional lawyer and provides clear advice and support at all times. With multiple complex issues at any one time, Faye works exceptionally hard to turn things around for us at short notice and represents us exceptionally well.’
‘Lesley Webber and Jamie Mangan have provided advice on a protracted and complicated arbitration where detailed advice was required on legal issues. Their advice was provided in a clear and concise manner, with detailed answers that were supported by the requisite case law.’
‘Fieldfisher are a very friendly and practical legal firm who offer an abundance of helpful up-to-date and practical solutions to a wide-range of lease advisory issues. They provide enormous amounts of charitable advice including to the southern area arbitration and independent experts group.’
‘The standout individuals are Lesley Webber and Jamie Mangan. Both are incredible at both building friendships and providing practical solutions to quite often complex legal issues. Their no nonsense approach instills trust and often helps to quickly end disputes. They remain completely up-to-date and knowledgeable on landlord and tenant law.'
‘Jamie Mangan sourced, briefed and instructed the appropriate expert witnesses in a highly professional manner.'
‘Antony Phillips and Faye Hyland are both very bright giving clear, concise and balanced advice.’
Key clients
- Reaction Engines Limited
- INEOS Upstream Limited
- British Pipeline Agency
- Aurium Real Estate London Ultra Prime Limited
- The City of London Corporation
- Vastint UK B.V.
Work highlights
- Advising Reaction Engines Limited in its claim for damages in excess of £70m against trustees of a property unit trust for damages flowing from breaches of an agreement for lease.
- Advising City of London Corporation on the project to move the wholesale markets of Smithfield and Billingsgate to the new, co-located £100m Dagenham Dock site.
- Acting for INEOS Shale and others in connection with the continuation of the first of its kind injunction granted against fracking protestors.
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Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Antony Phillips