Two experienced property lawyers have joined the Real Estate department at the Stratford upon Avon office of Midlands law firm Lodders Solicitors.
James Mottram and Anna Turnell join Lodders as Associates, and between them have more than twenty-years experience across residential development and commercial property investment transactions.
James Mottram, previously an Associate with Gateleys’ residential development team in Birmingham for eleven years, will work alongside Nick East, head of Lodders’ Real Estate department that is one of the strongest players in residential development transactions in the Midlands with clients including CALA Homes and Spitfire Properties LLP.
Well-known and respected amongst the UK’s major housebuilders, James has acted on a number of large residential development deals, including a £40million acquisition for a consortium of three housebuilders in Banbury in 2013.
“Lodders presents the rare opportunity for me to work on major residential development deals at an established law firm that is respected for its excellent service and legal expertise. The firm is a good fit professionally, and its location is ideal,” says James.
Previously a Solicitor in the Real Estate team at SGH Martineau LLP in Birmingham, Anna Turnell specialises in large scale real estate investment transactions and landlord and tenant work, with a particular emphasis in recent years acting for retailers with, in some cases, a presence across most major retail outlets in the UK.
She strengthens the firm’s property investment services and will work alongside Lodders’ Partner Mark Lee in the team, which last year experienced a surge in high-value instructions, including the sale of a portfolio of ten properties for IM Properties valued at £40.1million.
“Lodders is a major firm in the region,” says Anna, “and the real estate department attracts quality, high profile clients and work. Moving to Lodders represents a great opportunity for me, with, again, excellent career progression opportunities too. It’s an exciting time to join one of the region’s major real estate teams and a growing, proactive firm.”
The latest appointments bring fee earner numbers at Lodders’ Real Estate department to fourteen. Commenting on the new hires, Partner Mark Lee says: “Anna and James both bring significant experience in their individual specialist fields, further strengthening our real estate offering, sector knowledge and technical legal expertise.
“The team is one of the strongest in the region for both residential development and commercial property investment work and given the success, volume, scale and value of the transactions we completed in 2014, these new hires will enable us to build on our successes and further cement our reputation for superior real estate legal advice.”
Lodders Real Estate team acts on behalf of national and regional commercial property developers, residential property developers, investment companies and funders.
