Profile
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Position
Heather has an excellent track record delivering pragmatic advice to developers and landowners on a comprehensive range of transactions relating to the acquisition, development, letting and disposal of commercial and residential sites. She successfully works with a client’s internal and wider professional team to proactively identify key issues and find solutions to achieve the best possible outcome for her client. A source describes Heather as “exceptionally committed and diligent, she makes deals happen whilst protecting our legal interests.”
Heather’s principal focus is acting for developers dealing with site assembly, conditional build agreements and forward funding in the industrial and logistics market. Heather also deals with the acquisition and disposal of residential development sites and has assisted a number of local FE Colleges with site disposals to generate substantial inward investment in learning facilities.
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Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- 'The Geldards' Real Estate team at each level offers great customer service and care, and a strong sense of commercial awareness of knowledge of problem-solving.'
- 'Heather Dixon - absolutely outstanding. Reactive, alert, and when sharing commercial issues on a transaction, inevitably offers advice on how to solve some of the issues which can save time and ensures that a greater and more balanced depth of advice is offered at every turn.'
- 'Detailed knowledge of the education sector and property matters. Attention to detail, full understanding of the public sector and limiting requirements, as well as the machinery of government.'
- 'Goes above and beyond what is required on the job.'
- 'Heather Dixon is a stand-out - attentive, knowledgeable, and with the ability to make something complex easy to understand. Heather always has a sight on the potential risks of proposals, which help inform our decision making.'
- 'The team has made a real effort to understand my business and the constraints within which we have to work, the return of which has been strong negotiations in our favour, which ensure we comply with our regulators.'
Key clients
- Liverpool City Council
- The Coal Authority
- Tanro Limited
- Scrivens Limited
- Oxfordshire County Council
- Westmorland and Furness Council
- Cumberland Council
- Mansfield District Council
- Harbrough District Council
- Clowes Developments (UK) Limited
- Cavendish & London Property Group Limited
- March Property Developments Limited
- National Grid Electricity Distribution
- Easement Solutions Limited
- ESP Utilities
- South Staffordshire District Council
- Eurocell plc
- Derby College Group
- Vattenfall Networks
- Milton Keynes Council
- South Staffordshire District Council
- Isle of Wight Council
- Tees Valley Combined Authority
- Derbyshire County Council
- Burnley Borough Council
- Foundry Top Co LLP
- Damien Walters Limited
- SMB Group
- Wellglade Limited
- Derby City Council
- Nottingham City Council
- Shropshire Council
- Wheeldon Brothers