Law firm Winckworth Sherwood has promoted Aida Smajlovic, Elizabeth Pipe, Lucy Grimwood and Shree Hindocha to partner in its real estate, social housing finance and education teams.
Finance lawyer Grimwood joined the firm eight years ago and works across social housing finance and joint ventures. She acts for clients ranging from registered providers, developers, banks, funds and corporate borrowers.
Hindocha, part of the real estate team, specialises in site acquisition for residential property development. She regularly acts on major developments and regeneration schemes on behalf of national house builders.
Pipe joined joined Winckworth Sherwood as a trainee solicitor in 2010. She specialises in regeneration projects, and the acquisition of residential and mixed-use developments, acting for national house builders together with forward funded bulk disposals to PRS operators and providers of affordable housing.
Smajlovic heads up the schools HR team in the firm’s education practice. Her specialism is in employment law for the sector, acting for maintained schools and academy trust companies as well as dioceses and independent schools.
Senior partner Jo Keddie commented: 'These new partnerships reflect the exceptional contribution that Aida, Elizabeth, Lucy and Shree make to important areas of our business - advising clients within real estate, social housing finance and education. Their well-deserved advancements to partner support our firm by strengthening teams where we are seeing significant growth opportunities, enabling us to bolster our offering to existing and new clients.'
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