Forbes Solicitors
Lawyers
Catherine Kennedy
Work Department
Housing and Regeneration (Property)
Position
Catherine Kennedy is a Partner and Head of Housing Property with 37-years experience. She has extensive experience in development and commercial lease matters with commercial property transactions of all types, from Social Housing and Urban Regeneration to NHS estate reconfiguration, public private partnerships, funding/development scheme. Catherine’s acted for institutional investors, NHS, local authorities, charities, public bodies, registered providers, educational bodies, residential/ commercial developers on acquisitions, disposals and relating funding, planning, environmental and construction matters.
Catherine specialises in complex redevelopment site assembly and disposals with related suites of development documents. She finds innovative solutions to complex site and title issues, unlocking sites for regeneration and development. She has worked closely with public sector clients to regenerate and rationalise their estates. Catherine’s worked with local authorities in connection with their redevelopment brief, devising streamlined procedures.
Catherine is leading the team through substantial growth to achieve their ongoing development and commercial objectives .
Catherine has overall responsibility for Property services and supports team members in dealing with complex transactions. She has extensive rationalisation experience devising efficient ways to undertake bulk transactions ensuring correct teams are put together to steer matters to conclusion in a timely manner.