Ash Jilani > Brachers > Maidstone, England > Lawyer Profile
Brachers Offices
SOMERFIELD HOUSE
59 LONDON ROAD
MAIDSTONE, KENT
ME16 8JH
England
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Ash Jilani
Work Department
Commercial Property
Position
Partner (Commercial Property)
Career
Ash is a Partner in Brachers’ Commercial Property team and leads the Primary Care sector team.
Ash has more than 20 years’ experience in commercial property and joined Brachers in 2002 after working at leading city firms Lawrence Graham, Decherts and Speechly Bircham. He became a partner in 2007.
Ash specialises in:
- Development of new GP premises
- Leases, sales and disposals of healthcare and care homes property
- Commercial landlord and tenant law
- Acquisition and disposals for tenants of business premises
- Corporate support and secured lending
He is the lead partner in the team for corporate support, acting on the property aspects of significant mergers, acquisitions, MBOs and corporate restructuring.
He also advises on the formation of GP Federations and acts for many of Kent’s NHS Trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups. He is a member of the Primary Care Premises Forum.
Memberships
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Public sector > Public sector
Praised for its successful representation of NHS trusts and having ‘the highest standards of customer care‘, Brachers‘ multidisciplinary education, employment and healthcare team leverages the firm’s commercial property and planning teams, and is equipped to deal with the whole range of work in the public sector. Co-head Ash Jilani focuses on primary care property matters, while fellow co-head and healthcare expert Catherine Daw is praised by clients as ‘an outstanding employment lawyer’. Co-head Colin Smith and Abigail Brightwell are further key contacts for employment related matters.
South East > Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
The ‘strong commercial property team’ at Brachers in Maidstone is ‘knowledgeable and thorough in all its dealings’. Specialising in the education, primary care and agriculture sectors, the team is led by Sarah Gaines, who focuses on the agriculture and charity sectors and has ‘excellent in-depth knowledge’ of land transactions and agreements. The ‘patient’ and ‘calm’ Ash Jilani is an expert in primary care property matters, acting on the development of GP premises and the property aspects of M&A deals. Bill Butler heads up the firm’s education sector group and specialises in disposals, redevelopments and secured lending work. Katherine Morgan left for Thomson Snell & Passmore in September 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
- Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex South East > Real estate
- Public sector South East > Public sector
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Public sector > Public sector
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery