About Victoria
Victoria is a Partner in the Real Estate team.
Victoria is trusted by her clients to provide proactive commercial advice, confidence and solutions. She has expertise acting across a variety of real estate transactions from sales and purchases and day to day asset management, to complex financing, re-financing, joint ventures, development agreements and bespoke contracts for the promotion of strategic residential land.
Victoria approaches transactions by operating as part of the client team and she has developed a number of long-term mutually successful client relationships.
She acts for a broad range of clients including privately owned investment funds, AIM listed occupiers, developers of both commercial and residential property and strategic residential land promoters.
Coupled with her development and investment work, Victoria has significant experience in the requirements of banks, funds and other institutions in secured lending, whether for acquisition or development.
Victoria has been ranked in Chambers and Partners for a number of years, and is recognised for her “fantastic range of expertise” and for being “a very sensible, straightforward and clear-thinking partner” and “an absolute pleasure to work with”.
Victoria is recognised by Legal 500 as a Recommended Lawyer.
Victoria joined Hamlins in 2021 from an international practice.
Work Highlights
- Acting for top accountancy practice, PwC, on the acquisition of newly built architect-designed office accommodation in central Birmingham.
- The disposal for a long-standing client of a City of London office building for £73M.
- The speculative development, subsequent letting and investment sale of a commercial development in Coventry – completed in the middle of a national lockdown (June 2020).
- Acting for a landowner client on a significant hybrid option and promotion agreement for a mixed use development; the unique circumstances of Covid-19 accelerated the planning promotion of the land, and occupier Pets at Home has signed terms to take a lease of a new distribution unit.