Real Estate Disputes
Rosalind Cullis
Rosalind is a Partner in our Real Estate Disputes team. She has acted for a wide range of both landlord and tenant clients including institutional landlords, asset managers, retail and office tenants as well as HNW and high profile individuals. Her expertise covers primarily commercial property disputes but she also has experience of some areas of residential property as well as construction disputes. She has also written many articles for the legal and property press.
Tom Mills
Tom is a Senior Associate in the dispute resolution team with wide experience in contentious commercial property issues. Tom acts for a variety of clients across a range of sectors and asset types, including retail, offices, industrial and logistics.
Rob Mullarkey
Rob is a Senior Associate in the dispute resolution team with experience in landlord and tenant matters, advising landlords and tenants in relation to lease renewals under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, advising on dilapidations, breaks and forfeiture and advising developers and landowners in relation to rights of light.
Claire Munn
Claire is a Senior Associate in the dispute resolution team with experience in landlord and tenant matters, advising landlords and tenants in relation to lease renewals under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, advising on dilapidations, breaks and forfeiture and advising developers and landowners in relation to rights of light.
Dellah Gilbert
Dellah is the Head of Dispute Resolution at Maples Teesdale and has extensive experience in a wide variety of property-related contentious commercial property issues through negotiation, mediation or proceedings, including high value dilapidations claims, hostile lease renewals, multi-million pound development disputes, rights of light, rent review and development issues and professional negligence. Dellah is the co-Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Maples Teesdale.
Team Services
A significant proportion of our work involves us working alongside our real estate colleagues to help avoid problems along the way and to ensure that deals complete on time and on budget.
Our focus is always to find pragmatic, speedy resolutions to any problems in a cost effective manner with the minimal impact on time and cost for our clients. We are therefore property law specialists with a detailed understanding of the real estate market, as well as litigators.
We specialise in work arising from landlord and tenant matters as well as issues arising from development and construction work, professional negligence and corporate disputes.
Our advice covers:
- Site clearance issues and obtaining vacant possession
- Construction contract disputes
- Rights to light claims
- Restrictive covenants/rights of way
- Service charge disputes
- Contested applications for consent
- Rent Review
- Arrears recovery
- Lease break issues
- Termination and renewal of business tenancies
- Forfeiture
- Dilapidations claims both during and following termination of a lease
- Professional Negligence
- Insolvency