Simon is a commercially focused and entrepreneurial real estate expert known for his calm, practical and commercial approach.

Stephen Scott is a partner in Shakespeare Martineau’s real estate disputes team. He is based in our London office but also spends time in our Nottingham office (his home town). Stephen loves getting to know clients’ businesses and helping them to achieve their strategic aims. He finds it fascinating that he is able to play a role in developing a piece of real estate which can have a transformative effect on a neighbourhood or a city or region.

Stewart acts exclusively for housing association clients and completes a large number of property transactions to assist clients in achieving their goals of delivering much needed housing to their customers.

Susannah is a partner in our team based out of our London and Milton Keynes offices, within the Commercial Property and Development team, focussing on real estate finance, family offices and luxury assets.

Susannah advises clients on a wide range of real estate finance and property matters, including advising family offices and bridge lenders. Susannah represents both lenders and borrowers on all levels of secured funding, ranging from overdraft facilities of £100,000 to refinances and acquisitions, involving secured, bridge and development finance.

This includes supporting SME and banking clients within the UK residential and commercial property market. Susannah’s experience in this sector is all encompassing for clients on documentation support, and transactional support on both standard and bespoke, complex matters. Transactional representation includes due diligence on titles and supporting documents and reports, searches, raising enquiries, reporting and all registration requirements to ensure security is perfected.

Susannah’s clients typically include family offices and bridge lenders, challenger banks and financial institutions, focussing on the SME real estate borrowing market.

Tim is a litigator who adopts a robust and practical approach to claims and is valued as a trusted advisor to his clients.

Tom works with employers to prevent and resolve people issues, ensuring their organisations continue to work efficiently and effectively.

Vanessa is one of the leading property litigators in the south east region. She leads the practice area at Shakespeare Martineau and has been involved in resolving a wide range of complex and high value disputes over her 20+ years in practice.

Vicki is renown for providing commercial real estate advice (including funding and recovery) with particular expertise in the education and charity sectors. She has international experience and is a practising Notary Public
She has expertise of advising clients on safeguarding and related disciplinary matters

Victoria undertakes real estate finance work representing lenders and borrowers with a focus on development funding and healthcare transactions.

Adam’s main area of focus is on construction disputes, and works with clients to resolve these in a timely and cost effective manner.

Afreen works for a range of clients including banks, Islamic finance institutions, short term lenders and other corporate entities.

Alex has a positive attitude and adopts a commercial approach towards all of his matters.

Alistair specialises in contentious trusts and probate. He represents private individuals, charities, trustees and executors in a wide range of matters.

Amit is the operations director for our national residential conveyancing department

Andrew is a finance lawyer specialising in real estate finance.

Anieka assists education clients to realise their goal and resolve their problems.

Bhikhu is part of our energy team and has built up considerable experience advising clients in the private and public sectors on commercial contracts, IT, data protection and procurement law.

Calum is an immigration law expert and offers advice to individuals and businesses across a variety of sectors including agriculture, manufacturing and sport.

Charlotte works with developers, landowners, pension schemes and commercial clients and provides practical solutions in order to achieve desired outcomes efficiently.

Danny has a specific focus on contentious intellectual property matters, advising clients on the full spectrum of intellectual property rights, including patents, trade marks, designs, and copyright.

Desh has over 10 years of corporate real estate experience and undertakes a wide variety of real estate work.

Donna acts for a wide range of our investors, national housebuilders and corporate occupier clients.

Elaine works with a wide range of clients to include high net worth individuals and advises on estate planning, probate matters and various trust structures. Elaine also helps clients with Powers of Attorney and Deputy’s Accounts.

Emma advises clients on a wide range of commercial property matters dealing with freehold and leasehold interests.