Bio
Helen is a Real Estate Disputes Partner.
Helen has more than 25 years’ experience of working with businesses, landlords, corporate occupiers, landowners, private individuals, and public sector organisations to resolve complex real estate disputes and property litigation matters, with particular expertise in the Electronic Communications Code and telecoms-related disputes.
Her specialisms include landlord and tenant matters, portfolio management issues, lease disputes, property and land development contracts, misrepresentation and professional negligence claims, easements (including access disputes), and adverse possession.
She also has extensive experience resolving disputes through negotiation, litigation, arbitration and mediation – providing strategic, pragmatic advice that supports clients’ commercial objectives.
Examples of Helen’s work include:
- Supporting retailers and landlords to manage their retail property portfolios including lease renewals, rent review, dilapidations.
- Advising a shopping centre owner on vacant possession strategy, including removal of multiple telecoms operators to enable redevelopment.
- Representing land and building owners dealing with applications under the Code for new sites (both consensual and opposed).
- Advising landowners in respect of the negotiation of Multi-Skilled Visit (MSV) surveys, new site acquisitions, removal of telecoms occupiers, and claims for compensation under the Code.
- Advising a college on vacant possession and redevelopment strategy on tenanted land, including removal of telecoms operator.
- Advising a charitable educational establishment on dilapidations liability and vacant possession strategy.
- Advising landowners and promoter clients on breach of contract claim claims involving complex issues of misrepresentation and rescission of contract for the sale of development land.
- Acting for a council in a complex rent review dispute.
- Advising an investment company on the breach of a joint venture agreement in respect of land development.