BBS Law

Property & Secured Lending

Managing Associate

Leona advises on a variety of different property-related and secured lending matters acting for lenders, borrowers, commercial landlord and tenants and property investors. Leona’s main work areas are landlord and tenant matters, acquisition and disposals of commercial and residential property and property finance.

Leona’s property clients are predominantly lenders securing their interests against property and business owners and investors purchasing, selling or leasing commercial property. 

Leona has particular expertise with secured lending, having worked with a number of high street banks, unregulated and regulated bridging lenders and borrowers on a variety of different lending scenarios, including re-finance, single unit finance, portfolio and development finance including heavy refurbishment bridging loans and development exit loans. 

Leona’s broad knowledge of the secured lending sector enables her to provide clear and constructive and practical commercial solutions to her clients and given the nature of her work Leona often works within extremely tight deadlines.

Recent Experience

• £2.1 million purchase acting for a developer of a mixed used, part registered complex development site with the potential to create 7 flats and 3 retail units
• £1 million re-finance of property portfolio acting for the lender (1 freehold property and 11 leasehold flats) which completed in less than a week. 
• Acting for the tenant, Salt & Pepper Manchester, on a commercial lease for their new commercial premises located in Manchester’s Northern Quarter in respect of their new business venture and expansion plans.
• £4.75 million auction sale of a Petrol Station on behalf of the Seller. 
• Acting for the purchasers and dealing with the property aspects and due diligence on various corporate-led property deals and working closely alongside the BBS Corporate team.
• Acting for lenders and borrowers on high pressure re-finance deals involving both commercial and residential properties requiring quick turnaround. 

Leona trained with a boutique commercial law firm in Altrincham and qualified in 2017. She subsequently joined BBS Law in April 2021 as an Associate in the BBS London Property and Secured Lending Team. 

English

Leona has graduated with honours with a Law Degree from the University of Hull in 2011 and subsequently undertook the LPC professional qualifications at The University of Law (formerly known as the College of Law).