Rachel Francis-Lang > Lewis Silkin > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Lewis Silkin Offices
Arbor
255 Blackfriars Rd
LONDON
SE1 9AX
England
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Rachel Francis-Lang
Work Department
Real estate and development.
Position
Partner: Rachel has a focus upon providing real estate services to corporate occupiers and developers and has a particular insight into clients’ needs and expectations on service delivery having worked in-house on secondment as legal counsel to a listed projects/construction company. She has experience in handling large global real estate portfolios dealing with multiple moves from multiple locations, working in partnership with clients’ real estate consultants.
Career
Trained Slaughter and May; qualified 1991. Slaughter and May 1989-2000; Eversheds LLP 2000-08; Simmons & Simmons 2008-09; Lewis Silkin 2009 to date.
Memberships
CORENET.
Education
Portsmouth High School; University of Liverpool (1984-87 LLB Hons 2:1); College of Law (1987-88).
Lawyer Rankings
London > Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
(Leading partners)At Lewis Silkin, the corporate occupiers team operates across the marketing, luxury retail, tech, and hospitality industries, and adopts a multidisciplinary approach by collaborating with its employment and commercial property teams. The group handles high value headquarters relocations, redevelopments of historically significant buildings, and real estate portfolio management for high-net-worth individuals. Brian Kilcoyne
leads the department. The ‘diligent and responsive’ Rachel Francis-Lang advises on acquisitions and disposals, and the negotiation of commercial leases, while Julia Poulter covers landlord and tenant work and the property elements of M&A deals. Patrick Brown concentrates on commercial real estate and mixed-use development projects, and Laura Bougourd assists corporate occupiers with real estate investment work.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners London > Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Commercial property: corporate occupiers London > Real estate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Employment > Employers
- Employment > Immigration
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Theatre, publishing and other media
- Employment > Senior executives
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Music
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Video games
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Artificial intelligence
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Digital content & social
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Real estate > Planning
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare