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West Yorkshire
LS1 4JB
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Matthew Lonergan

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Work Department

Real Estate

Position

Matt is a real estate lawyer specialising in property litigation.

He has a wide experience of acting for landlords, developers and tenants, in particular corporate occupiers in the retail (including supermarket), financial services, transport, distribution, airline, leisure and hotel sectors.

Matt has considerable project management expertise and also manages a number of clients’ property portfolio management requirements, managing all their real estate work including transactional, property litigation, construction and planning work.

Matt has dealt recently with a number of high profile and high value disputes for a variety of clients, obtaining successful and well-received outcomes, whether through a negotiated settlement, court proceedings, arbitration or mediation

Career

Matt joined Shoosmiths as a partner in August 2018. He initially trained and qualified at Simmons & Simmons and then spent over 23 years at DLA Piper, having become partner there in 2003

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Yorkshire and the Humber > Real estate > Property litigation

Shoosmiths LLP offers key advice to a wide range of developers and corporate occupiers and is instructed by the likes of Holland & Barrett and Taylor Wimpey to advise on contentious matters arising out of large property portfolios. In addition to advising on a large volume of lease renewals, dilapidations, possession claims and contractual disputes, the team is also well equipped to handle complex rights of light claims and landmark cladding and building safety disputes. The Leeds-based practice is led by Richard Symonds, who is an expert in property insolvency matters and also advises on a number of vacant possession and rights of light disputes. Matthew Lonergan is a key contact for development disputes as well as landlord and tenant work, and Michael Gaughan is regularly instructed on matters arising out of the Building Safety Act 2022.

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