Caroline Hanratty > Mills & Reeve LLP > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile
Mills & Reeve LLP Offices
No.1 Circle Square
3 Symphony Park
MANCHESTER
M1 7FS
England
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Caroline Hanratty
Work Department
Real estate.
Position
Caroline is based in the Manchester office of Mills & Reeve. She has considerable experience in all areas of commercial property work ranging from industrial, retail, residential and leisure developments to landlord and tenant work, pension fund acquisitions and property finance. She specialises in development work (including option agreements, conditional contracts, development agreements, planning promotion agreements and joint ventures) with particular expertise in hotel and residential development. Her clients include Marick Capital, Topland Group, Persimmon Homes, Urban&Civic, Bridge Properties and Bluemantle Limited. Caroline’s current projects include hotel developments in London and Manchester and two large mixed-use developments in Lancashire.
Career
Trained Cobbetts; qualified 1994; trainee solicitor Cobbetts 1992-94; solicitor Cobbetts 1994-98; senior Manager Andersen Legal 1998-2002; associate George Davies 2003-08; partner George Davies 2008-13; partner Mills & Reeves LLP 2013 to date.
Education
Test Valley School, Hampshire; Manchester University (1991 LLB (Hons)); Manchester Metropolitan University (1992 Law Society Finals).
Leisure
Family, camping, running, gym and cooking for friends.
Lawyer Rankings
North West > Real estate > Commercial property: Manchester
The practice at Mills & Reeve LLP
includes ‘trusted and reliable advisors’ and is experienced assisting key clients on residential developments, regeneration schemes, leases and sales of significant scale. Leader of the Manchester real estate team Mike Edge
noted as ‘the bedrock to what is an excellent service’ regularly handles development and investment deals, and is supported by Norwich-based Richard Hanson who heads the wider firm’s practice. Investment and development expert Rachel Pitman is described as a ‘first-class partner’ whilst Caroline Hanratty is noted as an ‘amazing mind’. Other names to note include the ‘highly professional’ Hannah Cheminais and health and education-focused Jennifer Lewis.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Manchester
- Public sector > Education
- Private client > Family
- Public sector > Health
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Manchester
- Real estate > Commercial property: Manchester
- Employment > Employment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Real estate > Construction
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant