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Wedlake Bell LLP Offices

71 QUEEN VICTORIA STREET
LONDON
EC4V 4AY
England
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Claire Nelson

Work Department
Commercial Property
Position
Claire regularly deals with the acquisition, disposal, funding and management of real estate assets within the UK often through complex and tax-driven multi-jurisdictional property structures, financing and tax mitigation arrangements. She specialises in investment, acting for a number of landlords with large portfolios on all their management needs.
Conversely, on the corporate occupier side, she has built up a following of private equity companies and investment managers in dealing with their office moves. This allows her to see both sides of landlord and tenant transactions and enables her to cut through unnecessary arguments, saving time and money for clients.
Claire has a reputation for ‘getting the deal done’ and tenaciously leads teams through transactions, advising in many sectors including offices and retail. She has a wide range of clients including high profile individuals, family offices, private and public companies and banks.
She is also the Company Solicitor for the Carpenters’ Company, a City of London Livery Company.
Career
Claire obtained a degree in Law – LLB (hons) from the University of Liverpool. She qualified in 2001 at Wollastons LLP (now Birketts LLP) and spent five years there as a Senior Associate. She then joined Rosenblatt Solicitors where she was a Partner for six years before moving to head up the Real Estate team at DWFM Beckman in 2012.
Claire joined Wedlake Bell in June 2015.
Education
LLB, University of Liverpool.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Real estate > Commercial property: investment
Containing a ‘multi-faceted team of experts’, Wedlake Bell LLP employs specialist practitioners in the commercial, planning, construction and tax sectors to enhance its investment matters. The firm is knowledgeable on transactions within the residential, logistics, office and life sciences. Advising on transactions in the entertainment, hospitality and retail sector, David de Maupeou leads the team. Claire Nelson is adept at supporting clients with their property portfolio managements. Suzanne Gill is an expert on office, retail and telecoms assets.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Residential property
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Senior executives
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Employment > Employers
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms