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Helen Close
Work Department
Property Litigation
Position
Partner
Career
Helen has 27 years’ experience in property litigation. Helen provides support to both owners and occupiers on all contentious property matters. She has a proven track record in advising clients on complex landlord and tenant and real estate disputes as well as experience working with client Property Directors and their teams providing assistance with all their strategic and day-to day portfolio management. Helen’s experience of property litigation management both in-house and in private practice has resulted in an astute commercial approach to dispute resolution and risk management.
Helen‘s experience covers the full spectrum of property disputes, litigation (including alternative dispute resolution), rent review disputes, tortious issues, developer disputes arising under property contracts, easement claims, professional negligence claims (arising from property matters), contract interpretation and disputes, covenant enforcement, break option advice, dilapidations and lease exit management and 1954 Act lease renewal claims. She is also an expert on the Electronic Communications Code. Helen’s successful reported cases include Blockbuster v Leakcliff Properties [1997] and Perry v Day [2005].
Lawyer Rankings
London > Real estate > Property litigation
At Davitt Jones Bould, the group advises councils and national estates on development disputes, dilapidation claims, and contentious public law matters relating to real estate. Peter Allinson and Madeleine Davitt
jointly anchor the firm’s property litigation practice. The ‘insightful’ Jonathan Warner-Reed has illustrated experience in the leisure sector, and advises on rights of light, adverse possession cases, and the judicial review of planning applications. Maeve Bonner assists major institutions on issues relating to estates, such as lease negotiations and contentious break notices, while the ‘exceptional’ Helen Close focuses on landlord and tenant disputes, often involving rent review and the enforcement of covenants.