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Real Estate Litigation - London (Firms)

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What the Team is Known For

Osborne Clarke advises on real estate litigation across industries such as hotels, energy and retail. The team is experienced in acting for the likes of developers, investors, landlords and tenants on a broad spectrum of matters, including right to light, party wall disputes and lease claims.

Work Highlights

  • Osborne Clarke acted for GMS Parking regarding the redevelopment of a multi-storey car park into a 55-storey student accommodation tower. The firm has advised on various parking rights within the existing car park and on the strategy to de-risk the site to enable the redevelopment.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Gary Lawrenson
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Gary Lawrenson
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Gary Lawrenson is head of the real estate litigation team at Osborne Clarke. An experienced property litigator, he regularly advises on right to light and other contentious development issues, such as party walls and building safety.

Gary makes people feel comfortable and calm in his presence, even in tricky stages of litigation. He is very reassuring and a breath of fresh air for us.

Gary is great at explaining complex matters in understandable and easy ways.

In terms of knowledge, he was outstanding. Nothing was too much for him and he pulled out all the stops.

Donal Kelly
Associates to watch

Donal Kelly is noted for his strength in handling matters on behalf of developers and institutional landlords. He is adept at handling issues relating to the Electronic Communications Code.

Shinead Wilson
Associates to watch

Shinead Wilson is a legal director in Osborne Clarke's property disputes team. She is primarily noted for her expertise in right to light matters but also has experience acting across a range of commercial and residential issues, including neighbour disputes.

She is superb.

Shinead is very technically minded, very hands-on and will come back with creative ways to treat a subject.

Shinead is very technically minded.

She has a good reputation and is very well known.

Victoria Woolf
Victoria Woolf
Associates to watch

Victoria Woolf has a strong focus on party wall matters and also has experience dealing with right to light and other development disputes. She is also adept at handling boundary disputes.

Victoria is sensible and pragmatic.

Ranked Lawyers at
Osborne Clarke LLP

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Gary Lawrenson
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Gary Lawrenson
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Donal Kelly
Associates to watch
Shinead Wilson
Associates to watch
Victoria Woolf
Victoria Woolf
Associates to watch