• Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood

  • Partner
  • Real Estate Finance
Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood

  • “Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood is an outstanding partner within a vast knowledge acumen. She continuously outperforms her peers and overdelivers. If you have a complicated matter with the shortest timespan to sort it out, Aselle is the person to go to.”

    Legal 500 2025

  • “Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood has the experience ability and focus to guide you to the final result you were searching for. She has a flawless character and impeccable timing skills, and would not hesitate to recommend her and her team to anyone.”

    Legal 500 2025

  • “We work with Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood who is very approachable, professional, quick to respond and suggests alternatives. Fantastic to work with and always friendly and helpful.”

    Legal 500 2025

  • “Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood is a mentor not only to her team but to her customers as well, both professionally and personally. Aselle has a very personal touch to any transaction she’s involved with and has proven many times that she excels and overdelivers. Her charisma and positive attitude makes her an amazing partner to work with.”

    Legal 500 2024

  • “Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood is an excellent lawyer who gives good advice and ensures she provides the best possible service.”

    Legal 500 2024

  • “Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood is a pleasure to work with. She is very efficient and calm. She also has an excellent rapport with solicitors acting for the other side on the deal.”

    Legal 500 2024

  • “Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood has always been proactive and sought out issues that need to be solved and come to us with solutions not problems. A great person to work with and have on your side.”

    Legal 500 2022

  • “Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood is a gem. She works all day and all night to meet deadlines, is always fair on fees and really is an asset to my legal team and the firm.”

    Legal 500 2022

  • “Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood is very accessible and communicates in a very straightforward way.”

    Legal 500 2022

  • “The team is helmed by Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood and under her guidance the only way for them is up! She is a well-rounded individual with impeccable business and professional acumen and a very calm spirit, who can solve the most difficult issues with the best possible outcome for everyone involved. She is very responsive, diligent, down to earth and a great individual to be around and learn from. She has become a mentor not only to her team but also to her partners and clients, and the service she provides will always exceed your expectations. She builds and maintains life-long relationships due to the consistently outstanding service she provides.”

    Legal 500 2022

  • “I highly recommend Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood. However difficult a task you give to her, she will deliver and will guide you throughout the process. Even if you throw at her things beyond her expertise, she will never say no. She will study it, become expert and still help you to the best of her abilities. Aselle is a rounded professional, constantly evolving to provide you with best service and advice.”

    Legal 500 2021

  • “Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood is a pleasure to deal with. Very practical in approach and detailed in nature. Positive and focused in co-ordinating negotiations between parties. Always available.”

    Legal 500 2021 Testimonial

  • “Aselle is hard-working, attentive to detail, and a very capable lawyer. A great asset to any team. I am pleased and proud to have her on our side of the transaction.”

    Sam Orenstein, Carlton Estate Management Ltd

  • “We deal with law firms on a daily basis. The levels of service that we receive from Aselle and Paul Spacey are truly unparalleled in terms of professionalism, response time and friendly disposition.”

    Chris Spencer, Director, Earl Fiduciary AG

  • “Aselle is like the Jessica Ennis of lawyers.”

    Corporate Relationships Manager, Bank Hapoalim B.M.

  • “I have always found Aselle thorough, quick to respond and always available. I couldn’t speak highly enough about her.”

    Private Property Investor
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About Aselle

Aselle is a Corporate and Banking Partner and Head of the Real Estate Finance team.

Aselle specialises in banking and corporate law.

She acts for banks and property investors in corporate transactions and secured lending transactions, drafts and negotiates corporate documents, facility agreements and security packages to facilitate a range of high value investment and development transactions.

Clients like Aselle’s ability to manage complicated transactions effectively, in a timely manner and to the clients’ satisfaction.

Aselle is a Russian speaking solicitor qualified in both England & Wales and the CIS.

Between 1994 and 2002, she practised law in the Kyrgyz Republic working as a lawyer in private practice, she was a legal advisor to the Mayor of Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan’s capital) and visiting lecturer at Bishkek University. In 1999, she established her own law firm in Bishkek. Her firm was retained by a number of multinational companies, charities and a major European government to advise on their operations in Kyrgyzstan. She was one of the authors of the Commentaries to the Civil Code of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Aselle trained with a London firm of solicitors, was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in England and Wales in 2007, joined Hamlins in 2009 and became a Partner in 2017.

She studied law at Moscow’s Lomonosov University and the Kyrgyz State University before graduating in 1994. The first Kyrgyz lawyer to qualify as an English solicitor, Aselle obtained a Diploma in English Law from BPP Law School in London in 2004, an LPC Diploma from the same school in 2005 and an LLM in Tax Law from Queen Mary and Westfield College (University of London) in 2008.

Aselle is recognised by Legal 500 as a Recommended Lawyer for M&A and for real estate finance.

Work Highlights

  • Acting for a London based group of property investment companies on loans secured over residential and commercial investment portfolio across the UK in a number of separate transactions with various lenders in the aggregate amount of around £200 million over the past 6 years.
  • Advising an overseas real estate investor on loans from an overseas bank to assist with the purchase of high-value London office and retail properties in 4 separate transactions in the aggregate amount of £133 million over the past 7 years.
  • Acting for a group of property investment companies on loans secured over office and retail properties in Swindon, Milton Keynes, Bristol, Liverpool and Sheffield from various lenders in a number of transactions in the aggregate amount of £49 million over the past 5 years.
  • Acting for subsidiaries of an AIM company in relation to property investment facilities from NatWest (£40 million) and Lloyds (£6.8 Million) secured over commercial properties across England.
    Acting for a property investment company on a £26 million refinance of a commercial (retail and office) property portfolio in Manchester with a high-street lender.
  • Acting for a family office in relation to two loans (£25 million and £15 million) from Arbuthnot Latham & Co., Limited secured over prime London residential property investment portfolio.
  • Acting for a London based property investment company on the refinance of its two property investment portfolios in the City and Clerkenwell with Lloyds Bank Plc:
    • £14.8 million, and
    • £14.3 million.
  • Acting for clients in relation to 3 loans from PRS Finance Plc under the PRS Scheme Rules (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/housing-guarantee-scheme-rules-private-rented-sector):
    • £17.5 million,
    • £12.9 million, and
    • £10.8 million.
  • Acting for a property investment group in relation to loans from RBS (£8.1 million) and Santander (£6.7 million).
  • Acting for the London branch of an overseas bank in relation to loans:
    • in the amount of £20 million to a luxury furniture manufacturing group of companies based in West Midlands;
    • in the amount of £16.5 million to a US company with investments in the UK sport industry;
    • in the amount of £13 million to a furniture manufacturing group of companies based in Essex;
    • in the amount of £7 m to a manufacturing group in Midlands; and
    • in the amount of £3 million to a fast food restaurant chain head-quartered in Worcestershire.
  • Trusteeships or charitable involvement: Aselle organises fundraising events in London in support of Uplift – Aufwind which helps families with disabled children in Kyrgyzstan.