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Joanna Preece

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 commercialrequirements 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.
Adam Bernstein

Adam Bernstein

Adam is a Partner in Maples Teesdale's commercial real estate team and heads up the hospitality and leisure sector team with a broad range of experience of investment and active management of office, retail, industrial parks and shopping centres. He advises a varied client base consisting of a number of household names in the leisure and hospitality sector on their real estate growth and asset management requirements as well as specialising in providing legal advice to some of the most exciting new brands from the UK and overseas who are wanting to enter the sector.  He also has extensive experience of all types of capital transactions.
John Bosworth

John Bosworth

John is Head of Planning at Maples Teesdale and has extensive experience working in both the private and public sectors. He advises on local authorities, statutory undertakers, developers, investors, regeneration agencies and housing associations on a wide range of legal issues associated with development as well as regeneration, infrastructure and strategic land projects. In particular he has advised on waste proposals, port development and in connection with the expansion of London Ashford Airport. John advises on all aspects of town and country planning, judicial review, highways and drainage and compulsory purchase and compensation.
Paul Burke

Paul Burke

Paul is the Managing Partner at Maples Teesdale. Paul is a corporate real estate partner and has extensive experience of portfolio acquisitions or disposals through group company structures often involving multiple jurisdictions; joint ventures including all forms of joint venture vehicles from private companies to all types of partnerships, LLPs and unit trusts and other unincorporated associations; SPV sales and purchases (for example to effect SDLT mitigation schemes); Jersey Property Unit Trusts (JPUTs); sale and leaseback structures; property and asset management agreements and shareholder disputes.
Scott Burn

Scott Burn

Scott is a Senior Associate in the commercial real estate team at Maples Teesdale. Scott has experience in non-contentious commercial property work including acquisitions, disposals, development and financing, as well as property management work for a variety of industrial, office and shopping centres in the UK. Scott is the co-head of the Industrial & Logistics sector team at Maples Teesdale with a focus on industrial acquisitions, lettings and financings, and data centres/digital infrastructure leasing, developments and capital transactions.
Eleanor Crawford-Drake

Eleanor Crawford-Drake

Ellie is a corporate real estate Partner with experience in a broad range of transactions covering a number of jurisdictions and including the use of W&I insurance, various purchase price adjustments and tickets reaching $300m. She has significant experience in corporate acquisitions and disposals, ranging from single asset to multi-company portfolio transactions, establishing and managing joint ventures, acting for minority or majority shareholder investors and company management and restructuring.
Anastasia Klein

Anastasia Klein

As well as being an experienced partner in our commercial real estate team, Anastasia is Head of ESG and co-Head of EDI at Maples Teesdale. Ana has extensive experience of capital transactions and asset management, including acquisitions, disposals, financing and portfolio deals, developments and pre-lets. Her work spans a range of sectors, including industrial and logistics, film and media, retail and offices.She led the team dealing with the property aspects of a REIT conversion for one of the UK’s largest property trusts involving assets valued in excess of £2.8bn and is part of the team that advises the US Government on its London embassy premises.As a noted expert on ESG and green lease provisions, Ana is recognised as a leading individual in the Legal 500 Green Guide and has spoken about green leases, ESG and sustainability at events hosted by (amongst others) BPF, RICS, JLL and Bisnow as well as having articles published by RICS, Estates Gazette, BE News and CoStar and being quoted in Property Week and the national press. She is also a member of the BPF's Green Lease Working Group , sits on the BENews’ ESG Editorial Advisory Board and is an active supporter of the Net Carbon Zero Standard project. Of particular note, Ana has recently been involved in the creation of a ground-breaking green lease for an extremely innovative award winning client with sustainability at its core, as well as taking the lead on green lease drafting in a panel of law firms acting for FTSE 100 listed global investment manager with assets under management valued in excess of c£500bn.Ana is passionate about driving change and encouraging diversity in the legal profession and the commercial real estate industry. In her EDI role she actively promotes and supports EDI both internally and externally; she is a founding member of the Allbright Club in London, a committee member of RE:Women and is proud to have been included in Bisnow’s recent list of “Women Changing the Face of UK Real Estate – Power Women”.
Declan Power

Declan Power

Declan is Head of Real Estate at Maples Teesdale and is one of the UK’s leading real estate development lawyers working on high profile projects in the offices, industrial/logistics, town centre repositioning, and living sectors, for both developers and institutional funders. Declan's development experience includes retail, offices, mixed use, student accommodation, PRS and industrial/distribution including forward funding, forward purchases, joint venture agreements, development agreements, rent sharing leases, construction aspects and warranties, rights of light, stopping up orders and planning.   Declan has extensive experience of commercial property investment sales and purchases, including portfolio sales and purchases and sales and leasebacks.  Declan is also experienced in commercial property asset management, including new lettings, lease renewals and lease regearings.
Helen Stewart

Helen Stewart

Helen is a Partner in the Strategic Land team at Maples Teesdale with extensive experience in acting for house builders, land promoters and land owners in their development and strategic land projects. Helen has acted on freehold acquisitions/disposals, drafting and negotiating complex documents such as build leases, development management agreements, promotion agreements (including hybrid option agreements), collaboration agreements, conditional sale contracts, overage and option agreements. She has advised on complex residential site set up work (which includes acting for housing associations in shared ownership disposals) and acted for landowners and developers on the assembly, promotion planning, development and sale of mixed use and employment schemes.
Chris Xitsas

Chris Xitsas

Chris is a Partner in the commercial real estate team and heads up the Living sector, with a broad range of experience across all aspects of investment, development and asset management work, as well as strategic land advice. Chris specialises in capital transactions and active management of office parks and retail assets, with a particular focus on the repositioning of town-centre shopping centres. He also has notable experience in site assembly, collaboration and land promotion agreements (acting for promoters and owners), and has a deep knowledge of development projects acting for institutional investors, student accommodation developers and educational institutions