Ingrid Saffin > Charles Russell Speechlys LLP > Guildford, England > Lawyer Profile

Charles Russell Speechlys LLP
ONE LONDON SQUARE, CROSS LANES
GUILDFORD
SURREY
GU1 1UN
England

Work Department

Real Estate & Disputes

Position

Partner

Career

Ingrid has a wealth of experience acting on industrial and energy projects, including energy from waste, gas production and pipelines and hydrogen refuelling, factories, warehouses and depots. She acts for several high-profile retail and leisure clients, healthcare businesses and corporate occupiers. Ingrid is ranked as a ‘Recommended Lawyer’ in Legal 500 and is also a ‘Recognised Practitioner’ by Chambers and Partners.

Ingrid is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Experience

  • Acting on the development of waste to energy facilities on brownfield sites, including provision of site services and utilities through neighbouring industrial facilities and land and providing logistical solutions to facilitate the build process
  • Acting on the acquisition, management, lease and ultimate sale around 1,000 retail pharmacy outlets for a pharmacy group
  • Advising on the acquisition of a fully let office block in the City of London for approx. £90 million for an overseas investor, with funding and involving entities in five jurisdictions in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East
  • Acting for a high-class clothing retailer in the management of its portfolio of 100+ stores, including in complex mixed-use centres (e.g. Canary Wharf), out of town retail designer outlet centres, high street, railway stations and in town shopping centres
  • Negotiating agreements for the protection of industrial gas production facility and delivery pipelines affected by nationally significant infrastructure project.

Lawyer Rankings

South East > Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex

(Leading individuals)

Ingrid Saffin  – Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Located in Guildford, Charles Russell Speechlys LLP offers a ‘vast knowledge base with specialists in key subjects who are experts in their field’. Assisting with corporate real estate work, secured lending issues and development sales in the healthcare, retail and leisure sectors, the team also offers expertise in industrial gas production facilities and pipelines. The team is headed up by Suzi Gatward in London; Ingrid Saffin in Guildford, who acts for FTSE and internationally listed companies including industrial gas and hydrogen production companies; and David McClenaghan, who has the ability to ‘remain calm in a storm’ and has significant experience in the residential development sector, acting for home builders and developers. Another key lawyer is Sydney Forster, who is praised as ‘consistently reliable’ and ‘knowledgeable’.