Nisha Hartelius

What do I do?

I help ambitious real estate companies and financial institutions bring deals home and grow their portfolios.  My select client base are hungry for growth and receive a personal, high-touch service whenever they need to:

• manage and grow their real estate portfolio, through leases, financing and sales and purchases
• buy or sell a company that holds real estate
• secure or provide finance to buy or develop a property
• structure a loan-on-loan facility

I have 14 years’ experience in real estate law and focus on the £0-£30million range working closely with my clients on a regular basis.  Some of my clients have been with me for 8 years and counting.

Why my client’s say they like working with me:

‘Always gives a decisive view, offers solutions and never sits on the fence’

‘Explains stuff to us in plain English’

‘Spots roadblocks and red flags on deals well ahead of time’

‘Never gives us any nasty fee surprises!’

Nisha Advises

• Financial institutions
• Property investors
• Landlords and Tenants

Wine

I’m a real estate lawyer and wine expert.  Sometimes my two worlds overlap. Both wine and law have an undeserved reputation for being stuffy, archaic and full of incomprehensible jargon.  But done right, they can both be accessible, dynamic and even exciting.

I am the Founder of The Wine and Spirits Trade Group which provides legal advice to the drinks industry. I am also WSET Level 3 Certified in Wine (the leading international school for wine education) and can be found picking grapes at harvest time in my local vineyards.    I can assist with buying, selling, leasing and financing vineyards, wineries and wine shops.

My Wine Legal Guide here gives further information.

Experience Highlights

I have worked on a variety of real estate deals including:

• Finance of £0m to £30m for office blocks, mixed use blocks and developments
• Bridging lending which needs quick turnaround times to meet tight timescales Option deeds for the site assembly of large parcels of land which will be stitched together and developed into residential homes
• Ongoing management of a portfolio of petrol stations
• Finance of £10 million which allowed a pub provider to add 18 further pubs to their portfolio

Career History

Previous Law Firms

• Reed Smith LLP
• Howard Kennedy LLP
• Finers Stephens Innocent LLP

Education

• The College of Law, Central London – LPC
• University of Warwick – Law and Business Studies Joint Honours Degree
• Kingston Grammar School