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Chambers Review

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Real Estate - East Anglia

3
Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Ashtons Legal fields an experienced team throughout East Anglia, with offices in locations including Cambridge, Ipswich and Norwich. The firm demonstrates wide-ranging experience in real estate matters, with experts in development, investment management and corporate work. The firm's diverse client roster includes house builders, higher education institutions and corporate occupiers.

Strengths

Their level of responsiveness makes them stand out for us.

The department is efficient, commercial and responsive.

We appreciate the quality of their knowledge and advice, and its timely provision.

The department consists of really good, top-quality solicitors with the bandwidth and expertise to deal with with very complex commercial property matters. We are very happy with them.

I have always been provided with well-informed opinions of key points in negotiations, including advice on areas to prioritise and those which are less important.

Work Highlights

Ashtons Legal assisted M Scott Properties with the £44 million sale of a residential development site of around 1,500 units.

Notable practitioners

Magnus McManus is Cambridge-based and leads the commercial property team at Ashtons Legal. He advises on a broad range of matters, including investment transactions and development work, for clients in fields such as education, financial services and life sciences.
 

Magnus provides a very knowledgeable range of advice in a prompt and accessible manner, and is available to provide clarification on additional queries.

 

Magnus gets up to speed quickly and provides excellent service throughout matters.

Widely respected in the market, Sheila Small is particularly proficient with handling residential development projects for a range of top industry players, assisting with acquisitions, disposals and leasing matters.

 

Efficiency is her real strength. Sheila can get through huge amounts of work very quickly and at a high quality.

 

She is exceptionally diligent, contactable at any time and prepared to go the extra mile. I can't speak highly enough of her.

 

Sheila is well respected in the area and really nice to work with.

 

Sheila is adaptable, energetic and extremely intelligent.

Senior associate Ian Hylton is praised by clients for his work on property disposals and premises leasing. He has further experience in assisting municipal bodies with hospitality development projects.

 

Ian offers a top-quality service and a high level of expertise. He is good at understanding the wider complexities and providing strong legal advice.

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Magnus McManus
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