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Addleshaw Goddard LLP has recently been busy advising on insolvency and enforcement matters, as well as its other core areas including contested property litigation and arbitration, transactional work and asset management. Julie Middlemass heads the practice, which has been advising institutional landlords such as Threadneedle, Standard Life and Scottish Widows, and corporate occupiers such as Primark, Travelodge, Lloyds Pharmacy, and Sainsbury’s. Recent work includes working with Bradford & Bingley to develop its risk management strategies on forfeiture claims by landlords of properties held as security.

DLA Piper UK LLP acts for an impressive array of clients including Arcadia Group, Dixons Retail, Mothercare, and the Coal Authority. Areas of specialism include minerals litigation, public sector, telecoms and commercial landlord/tenant matters. Petra Billing in Sheffield and Matthew Lonergan and John Kittle in Leeds are the practice’s leading individuals.

Under Matthew Baker, Pinsent Masons LLP has a broad practice that includes property cases with public law aspects and complex property disputes. Recent work includes representing Marcus Heaney in the substantial rights of light case concerning the Toronto Square property in central Leeds, which has come to be recognised as the current authority on rights of light injunctions.

Squire Sanders Hammonds is ‘one of the top players in this field’, and attracts praise for its ‘excellent, speedy service and first-class knowledge’. Clients include Royal Mail, Trinity Mirror, a number of local authorities, and Manchester City Airport. Practice head Patrick Walker is highly recommended, as is Sally Lodge.

Walker Morris is known for its experience in mortgage fraud, solicitors’ and surveyors’ negligence, insolvency and housing litigation. It also has a growing reputation in ‘green’ law matters. Recent highlights include acting for a major high street lender in relation to a multimillion-pound professional negligence case. Clients include Netto, Hyde Housing and Specsavers. Practice head Andrew Beck is a highly respected figure in the market.

Cobbetts LLP’s recent highlights include acting for a northern-based housing association in defending a multimillion-pound property development dispute. It also acts for private clients, and recently advised in relation to a substantial land drainage dispute involving a major development. Stephen Green is noted for his expertise in commercial and residential landlord and tenant issues.

DWF LLP is valued for its ‘excellent quality of service’. It has been advising South Lakeland District Council on matters including the strategy and procedure for deregistration of common land, associated planning matters and applications to carry out work on common land.

Eversheds LLP is noted for its ‘good commercial awareness, strong team working and good legal analysis’. Lead partner Alison Oldfield is recommended, along with new partner Damian Hyndman. The firm has been appointed sole property adviser to the Department of Environment Farming and Rural Affairs.

The ‘excellent’ team at Nabarro LLP ‘performs to the highest standards’. In 2010, it represented new client Cineworld in a £1.1m dilapidations claim, a case involving an abandoned cinema and complex reinstatement provisions in the lease. Stephen Scott is the key partner contact.

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