Nichola Gray > Davitt Jones Bould > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile

Davitt Jones Bould
2ND FLOOR
3 HARDMAN SQUARE
MANCHESTER
M3 3EB
England

Work Department

Commercial Property

Position

Partner

Career

Nichola has over 10 years’ experience of practice in commercial property with firms including DLA Piper. She advises on a range of property matters including asset management, acquisitions and disposals, outsourcing and property aspects of corporate transactions. Nichola also edited Ross: Commercial Leases, the acknowledged market-leading text in the commercial property field.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Commercial Property

Landlord and Tenant

WORK HIGHLIGHTS

Highlights include advising:

  • ‘Blue chip’ retail, leisure and institutional investors, including Trillium (Prime) Property GP Limited and The Merlin Group on a wide range of transactions.

  • The Prudential in relation to corporate transactions and asset management work.

  • Well Pharmacy on a range of landlord and tenant issues.

  • The Wolverhampton and Dudley Brewery in relation to the disposal of licensed premises and gained experience of advising on property issues in corporate transactions​.

  • Government clients including Highways England and Defra on their estates management issues, covering landlord and tenant and other areas.

Year admitted:  2001

Previous firms:  Knights Solicitors. DLA Piper.

Languages

English

Memberships

SRA number: 206717

Lawyer Rankings

North West > Real estate > Commercial property: Manchester

(Next Generation Partners)

Nichola Gray – Davitt Jones Bould

Davitt Jones Bould‘s founder, the experienced Madeleine Davitt, leads its Manchester practice. The team continues to assist some of the UK’s biggest landowners on such key projects as the major road scheme developments in and around Manchester, for National Highways, a matter Nichola Gray and the ‘tactful, clear and totally informed’ Zaheer Bashir are advising on. The ‘highly respected’ Tony Fitzmaurice ably manages a broad range of complex portfolios. Richard Holmes regularly works on high-profile developments for key clients. Net-zero specialist partner Stephen Chalcraft joined from Shakespeare Martineau LLP in January 2023.