Gemma James.

• regularly handling all property aspects associated with multi-tenanted industrial estates in various parts of the country owned by on-shore and off-shore investor clients. A recent partial renovation at one such local site involved development and letting agreements in order to achieve rearrangements of tenant occupancy at the site before, during and after the works.
• handling the transactional property portfolio for a well-known nationwide high street retailer.
• acting for a well-known international co-working office space provider in taking a significant lease designed to be a hub for cryptocurrency and blockchain communities.
• working with a wide variety of logistics clients to ensure their property portfolios accord with their requirements, for example, in the case of several of the largest international air cargo operating companies, rearranging and coordinating the timing of their occupancy of various airport units and offices to minimise their liability when surrendering all or part of their leases, carrying out works, entering new leases and granting sub-leases.
• acting for a Family Office investor in connection with the purchase and subsequent re-financing of a large mixed property portfolio, including ongoing estate management.
• advising investor clients disposing of properties at auction, several of which of late have achieved far higher prices than ever anticipated

Gemma was admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours at the University of Kent in 2001, receiving the Anthony London Prize for the best result by any Eliot College student in law for the year. She achieved a Post-Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice with Distinction from the College of Law in 2002, and received an award from the Law Society for outstanding performance by obtaining one of the highest marks that year nationwide.