Siân Jones > Blake Morgan LLP > Cardiff, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile

Blake Morgan LLP has a strong reputation advising England and Wales-based private and public sector clients across a range of property litigation, running the gamut from contested lease renewals and dilapidation claims to development disputes. As well as her broad litigation offering for commercial clients with substantial property portfolios, Sian Jones also regularly provides advice in a risk management context, including on the provision of vital training for housing associations regarding the recently enacted Renting (Wales) Act 2016. Legal director Adam Carbis provides ‘a professional and adaptive service across a wide range of property claims’, including defending public sector clients in CPO compensation claims. Senior associate Tanya Barrett focuses on residential landlord and tenant disputes, including her ongoing work for social landlords defending disrepair claims.

The ‘skilled and highly knowledgeable’ team at Blake Morgan LLP provides a ‘prompt and efficient service’ to Wales and England-based housing associations across a myriad contentious and non-contentious issues affecting their operations. Team head Sian Jones is ‘highly knowledgeable in housing law’, and as well as her conventional housing management work  – which includes anti-social behaviour cases – she has also been very active advising individual and consortia of housing associations on the implications of the recently enacted Renting Homes Wales Act. The ‘extremely knowledgeable and gifted’ Louise Howells takes the lead on real estate-related work in the space, including on complex funding issues, acquisitions and onward sales.