Harriet Swainson

Expertise

Harriet is a highly regarded and self-motivated individual.  Clients can expect her 15 years of experience in the niche area of real estate insolvency to maximise the achievable recovery on every case.   Harriet will integrate herself into her clients’ teams in order to provide clients with a responsive, commercial trusted advisor from the very beginning to the very end of a secured recovery.

Whether recovering a debt secured over one or 101 properties, commercial or residential, straight-forward or complex, Harriet’s hands-on, thorough, and streamlined approach ensures clients are offered technical excellence and practical insights all in a timely fashion.

If clients find themselves faced with litigation, they can expect Harriet to get to grips with the relevant matters in question quickly and for them to be dissected with the relevant facts.  Clients receive a clear and honest appraisal of the situation and, if necessary, total commitment to getting the matter dealt with as effectively as possible.

Harriet has been described as:

“…a breath of fresh air in the world of real estate recovery.  She is superbly focussed on her clients’ needs and provides practical and commercial advice.  The combination of her technical ability and her zeal for the work she does make her a real asset to have on any job.” 

“A knight in shining armour of the receivership world.”

Harriet Advises

• Banks
• Building societies
• Corporate borrowers
• Financial institutions
• Asset based lenders
• Private equity houses

Experience Highlights

• Advising receivers through completion of a multi-million pound development site on the River Thames including specialist advice on design and build contracts, planning applications, party wall matters and shared ownership aspects.
• Advising a bridging loan lender and appointed receiver through refinances, possession proceedings and sales (both consensual and hostile) on a portfolio of multiple appointments in extremely tight timescales.
• Successfully defending a High Court injunction seeking to prevent receivers from selling a multi-million pound property on the basis the loan was regulated and receivers had failed to properly market the asset.

Webinars

• Recover your secured debt more easily and more quickly
• Lease law updates on grey areas

Career History

• Advising receivers through completion of a multi-million pound development site on the River Thames including specialist advice on design and build contracts, planning applications, party wall matters and shared ownership aspects.
• Advising a bridging loan lender and appointed receiver through refinances, possession proceedings and sales (both consensual and hostile) on a portfolio of multiple appointments in extremely tight timescales.
• Successfully defending a High Court injunction seeking to prevent receivers from selling a multi-million pound property on the basis the loan was regulated and receivers had failed to properly market the asset.

Career History

Previous Law Firms

• Walker Morris:  (2004–15) Trainee to Director
• Bank of Scotland plc: Secondment (2007)