UK Guide 2026 : North West
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Addleshaw Goddard acts for an impressive list of blue-chip clients and major investors on large real estate deals. The Manchester team offers a wealth of investment and development experience across an array of sectors, including housing, education, infrastructure and logistics. The group provides additional expertise in retail and office developments, acquisitions and disposals.
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Addleshaw Goddard assisted abrdn Property Income Trust with the sale of a property portfolio, quoted at £351 million.
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The lawyers are practical problem solvers with a commercial approach to matters. They always make themselves available and are very good at summarising complicated problems.
There is a very strong list of partners, with a good pipeline of capable associates coming through behind.
The negotiations were fast-paced, and the team were able to make themselves available such that we as a client could feed into the negotiations at the relevant points and discuss issues as they arose.
The team are aware of our requirements as a client and are able to deal with matters appropriately, taking commercial, pragmatic decisions.
The work is always excellent, as one would expect from a top-tier firm, but the work is undertaken rapidly and the communication is outstanding.
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Catherine Fearnhead assists investors with a range of commercial property matters, including the acquisition and disposal of assets, and financing transactions.
Catherine has the ability to problem-solve and to navigate through challenges.
Catherine Fearnhead makes herself available and shows an excellent commitment to us as a client and to the negotiations as a whole.
She is proactive in protecting us as a client but also has the commercial awareness that enables both parties to exchange under the tight time pressures that projects demand.
Catherine is very aware of our need to be pragmatic and commercial to speed the leasing process up.
Lucy Butterworth is a partner within Addleshaw Goddard's Manchester real estate team. She advises her clients across a wide range of real estate matters including offices, living and life sciences spaces.
Lucy Butterworth devotes herself to projects. She is fully immersed, so her attention to detail and ability to think wider than just real estate aspects is amazing.
Vicky Niescier is a very skilled lawyer in the real estate sector. She is known to handle complex regeneration schemes and property portfolio sales. She has a key focus on sustainability improvements for landlords.
Vicky Niescier is very commercially aware and provides succinct and careful advice. She is an excellent leader of the team and takes a huge deal of pride in her work.
I have ultimate faith in Vicky's abilities to deliver a first-class service.
She is very diligent, responsive, proactive and a pleasure to work with.
Vicky is very approachable and always listens carefully to what we need. You can tell that she is very well respected by her team and she is a very loyal leader.
Kirsty Chalkley focuses on commercial development matters, with a particular emphasis on the later living, hotel and leisure sectors. She often acts for clients, including developers and tenants, on land acquisitions, disposals and forward-funding transactions.
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Practice area: Real Estate
Location: United Arab Emirates
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