Lucy works with clients to achieve their business goals. She has extensive experience of acting for both landlords and tenants in leasehold transactions and in freehold acquisitions and disposals. She acts for a variety of clients including technology companies, property developers, Cambridge Colleges, social housing providers and national retailers. Her clients range from small start-up companies to landlords with large property portfolios.
Lucy has expertise in acting for landowners and developers in the sale and purchase of sites for residential development.
Lucy trained at a large regional firm and qualified as a solicitor in September 2010, before joining Barr Ellison LLP in January 2014.
It is always preferable for leases to contain express reservations to alter, build and erect scaffolding in favour of a landlord who might want to develop at some point in the future.
A Court of Appeal decision serves as a warning to developers of the dangers of proceeding with developments in breach of a restrictive covenant.