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.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- 'The team provides solid and solutions-focused advice.'
- 'Vicky Kells is extremely knowledgeable of lender requirements and current practice which smooths transactions through.'
- 'Vicky Kells and Clare Gregory are outstanding and provide solutions not just recommendations.'
Key clients
- Tai Calon
- Nigel Davies and Andrew Owen
- Welsh Government
- Oakmont Education Services Limited
- Portavia Developments Limited
- RHA Wales
- Hafod Housing Association
- Orbit Group Limited
- Gloucester City Homes
- Triodos Bank UK Bank Ltd
Work highlights
- Undertook high-level due diligence and provided a title letter in respect to over 6,000 properties transferred to Tai Calon Community Housing as part of a stock transfer from Blaenau Gwent Council in 2010.
- Acting for the Welsh Ministers who have been approached by National Grid to grant rights over, under and through a number of sections of their land and highway to construct and thereafter use a tunnel to take electricity pylons underground to improve the landscape of Snowdonia.
- Advised Gloucester City Homes Ltd on the acquisition of the Former Hatherley Road Day Centre.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Clare Gregory