property Herrington Carmichael – A focus on property
After being nominated as a finalist in The Business Magazine’s Law Firm of the Year at the Thames Valley Property Awards for the second year running, we sat down to talk to the property partners at Herrington Carmichael, one of the fastest-growing law firms in the Thames Valley
Real estate’s Tim Hardesty, Daniel York and Maria Guida and head of the residential property, Annari Holmes discuss the firm’s property approach and its continued growth.
Q: You’ve really grown as a firm in recent years, tell us more about Herrington Carmichael
Tim Hardesty: Yes, we have a great story: over 175 year history in the area, formed in Camberley by the merger of two practices in 1935. What we offer our clients has evolved over time, we remain a full service legal provider, except our advice is given across the UK and to international businesses. Our offices are still in Camberley and Wokingham and we have recently opened a London office to further support our clients and develop new relationships both at home and abroad. We have grown from a 50-employee firm in 2012 to around 115 employees today and we are currently recruiting. So, you could say we have grown a bit. We plan to keep on growing and making sure we can provide the specialist services clients require.
Q: You have a long history in the region and a wide range of expertise. What exactly do you specialise in?
Maria Guida: We have a strong property team, supported by a strong and rapidly growing corporate and commercial team, but as a firm we have specialists across all our teams: dispute resolution, employment and immigration, family and private client – approximately 65% of our matters were commercially focused as a firm in 2017/18, that’s the area that has seen us grow recently.
Property has always been a key part of the firm at Herrington Carmichael, we split services into two teams - the real estate team has a particular specialism in acting for residential developers and landowners selling to developers and secured lending but also advise on the full range of commercial property matters from business leases, enfranchisement and lease extensions, land and property disputes and strategic land. The residential property team specialise in acting on the housebuilder panels for buyers purchasing new-build homes.
Our property teams continue to go from strength to strength. We are now one of the largest and most experienced team of property solicitors in the Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire region.
Maria Guida
Tim Hardesty
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THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – MAY/JUNE 2019
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