Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Laura is a Senior Associate on our Core Real Estate team and acts for a range of clients, both public and private sector on transactional matters.

Laura has extensive experience advising FE, HE and academy clients on all real estate matters within the education sector.

Laura has extensive experience advising HE and FE clients on college mergers, development agreements, student accommodation contracts and projects, disposals and acquisitions.

Laura’s experience in the academy sector involves assisting both single academy trusts and multi-academy trusts acquiring and disposing of academies. She also has experience of the establishment of free schools and PFI schools and regularly assists academy clients with their ongoing estates needs post-conversion. This has included advising on shared use agreements, the grant and acquisition of leases with third parties, and funding issues arising from grants from, amongst others, Sports England, Football Foundation and the Big Lottery Fund. Laura has experience in foundation schools, land subject to trusts, reverters and church land, including negotiations with the Diocese, and has a demonstrable understanding of the DfE requirements on all projects.

Laura also has experience on restructuring and banking matters and in the pipeline industry and senior living sector.

Laura trained with Eversheds, qualifying in September 2016, completing seats in real estate, real estate litigation, restructuring and health and safety.

Senior Associate