Anna is a Legal Director in Manchester and is the not-for-profit lead in the Real Estate team. She has a wide range of property experience with particular expertise in acting for retail and investor clients and represents various well-known occupational and industrial tenants, landlords and portfolio holders since her qualification in 2002.
Some of her latest experience includes:
- acting for Guide Dogs for the Blind as their sole legal provider on all of their property requirements;
- recently being appointed by the Land Trust on a regional partnership with National Highways in Yorkshire and the North East;
- acting for a household name restaurant operator across its leisure portfolio;
- acting for the UK's leading independent energy and multi-utilities service provider and running a bespoke team to service this client;
- working with a PRS REIT with its site acquisition and re-financing across the UK;
- advising two international airports in managing their property holdings comprising complex and multi-tenanted sites;
- working with Travelodge on their continuing hotel site acquisition pipeline;
- supporting Shoosmiths' national planning team in advising claimants on a number of large CPO compensation schemes
Anna considers corporate social responsibility to be an integral part of her role and to this end supports several local organisations (including a hospice and a food bank) with their property work on a pro bono basis.