Madeleine James

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Madeleine is an experienced real estate lawyer, specialising in commercial property acquisitions and disposals and commercial landlord and tenant matters.

She has over 25 years’ experience in acting for investment landlords, corporate occupier tenants and institutional buyers and sellers of all types of commercial real estate including offices, industrial units, transport and logistics, retail and investment property.

Madeleine has worked on many of the key office buildings in the City of London for a variety of insurance companies and also is a specialist in acting for several household name logistics companies.

Madeleine has been recognised by the Legal 500.

Madeleine Advises

  • Investment owners of industrial property portfolios
  • Logistics companies for their transport and distribution hubs as well as head offices
  • Corporate occupier businesses including insurance and pension companies
  • Private individuals and SIPP companies holding commercial property in their pension funds

Experience Highlights

  • Office relocation in London EC3 for one of the largest pan-European equities exchanges.
  • Head office consolidation for one of the UK’s leading providers of retirement financial solutions.
  • Management of 52-unit industrial estate in Wolverhampton for an offshore investment client.
  • Leasehold work for retail, office and industrial clients, both landlords and tenants.
  • Acquisitions and disposals of freehold and leasehold for local business owners and private commercial property owners and their SIPPs.

Career History

Previous Law firms

  • Partner: Downs Solicitors LLP, Godalming, October 2016 to June 2022
  • Senior Associate: Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, London (now Clyde & Co LLP), August 2006 to September 2016
  • Senior Associate: Cumberland Ellis LLP (now Wedlake Bell LLP), March 2003 to July 2006
  • Paralegal, Trainee Solicitor, Solicitor and Associate: Rosling King LLP, October 1995 to November 2002

Memberships

  • Law Society
  • Women in Property

Education

  • College of Law, York
  • University of Birmingham
  • University of California, Berkeley USA

Expertise

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Madeleine is an experienced real estate lawyer, specialising in commercial property acquisitions and disposals and commercial landlord and tenant matters.

She has over 25 years’ experience in acting for investment landlords, corporate occupier tenants and institutional buyers and sellers of all types of commercial real estate including offices, industrial units, transport and logistics, retail and investment property.

Madeleine has worked on many of the key office buildings in the City of London for a variety of insurance companies and also is a specialist in acting for several household name logistics companies.

Madeleine has been recognised by the Legal 500.

Madeleine Advises

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  • Investment owners of industrial property portfolios
  • Logistics companies for their transport and distribution hubs as well as head offices
  • Corporate occupier businesses including insurance and pension companies
  • Private individuals and SIPP companies holding commercial property in their pension funds

Experience Highlights

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  • Office relocation in London EC3 for one of the largest pan-European equities exchanges.
  • Head office consolidation for one of the UK’s leading providers of retirement financial solutions.
  • Management of 52-unit industrial estate in Wolverhampton for an offshore investment client.
  • Leasehold work for retail, office and industrial clients, both landlords and tenants.
  • Acquisitions and disposals of freehold and leasehold for local business owners and private commercial property owners and their SIPPs.

Career History

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Previous Law firms

  • Partner: Downs Solicitors LLP, Godalming, October 2016 to June 2022
  • Senior Associate: Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, London (now Clyde & Co LLP), August 2006 to September 2016
  • Senior Associate: Cumberland Ellis LLP (now Wedlake Bell LLP), March 2003 to July 2006
  • Paralegal, Trainee Solicitor, Solicitor and Associate: Rosling King LLP, October 1995 to November 2002

Memberships

  • Law Society
  • Women in Property

Education

  • College of Law, York
  • University of Birmingham
  • University of California, Berkeley USA
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