Construction
Mary Romanov
Mary is a Senior Associate in construction with experience advising on development schemes, acquisitions and financings including drafting, negotiating and completing documents required for the construction team and providing construction input into sale and purchase agreements and financing agreements.
Joanna Ingildsen
Joanna is a Senior Associate in the construction team, specialising in non-contentious matters. As well as drafting and negotiating contracts, she advises on the construction aspects of sales, purchases, lettings and fundings. Joanna has experience acting for clients operating across a range of sectors, including office developments, logistics facilities, data centres and care homes.
Joanna Preece
Joanna is a partner in the construction team and has significant experience advising a wide range of clients on large development schemes, acquisitions and disposals, lettings and financings. She is a specialist in non-contentious construction documents, with significant experience across the full suite of construction documents. She has experience in major redevelopments and full refurbishments and construction aspects of investment transactions, across all real estate investment sectors and is equally comfortable advising clients with less experience throughout the whole development process. Jo has a detailed knowledge of working and liaising with clients and understanding their commercial requirements having completed a number of legal secondments to her clients throughout her career. Jo helps to lead the Maples Teesdale’s ESG Committee and has been participating in workshops looking at climate clauses run by The Chancery Lane Project, a group that brings lawyers from around the world together to collaborate to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change in the built environment.
Laura Johnson
Laura is an Associate in the construction team at Maples Teesdale with experience in acquisitions, financings and development projects (new build and refurbishment) across a range of sectors including office, residential and hotels. Laura has experience drafting and negotiating a variety of construction documents including building contracts with bespoke schedule of amendments, consultancy appointments and collateral warranties.
Team Services
Our work includes all aspects of drafting, negotiating and completing building contracts, professionals’ appointments and related documentation. We also conduct audits of construction documentation for funders of developments.
Our construction and engineering department works closely with the Maples Teesdale commercial real estate department and both have good working knowledge of each other’s practice areas. This ensures the legal aspects of development work can be dealt with effectively and efficiently.
We cover:
- Construction aspects of redevelopments, including shopping centres, universities and colleges, industrial estates, retail parks and major mixed use urban sites
- Refurbishments of multi-let offices and shopping centres
- Funding aspects of construction projects including retail parks and offices
- Engineering projects