MARY ANDERSON

Mary is an experienced commercial property specialist who combines strong technical knowledge with considerable transactional expertise and a thoroughly commercial approach.  She is also an expert in property finance and banking. She has regularly featured as a “Leader” in her field in the Legal 500 and in Chambers and Partners, which ranked her as Band 1 for Banking in the Midlands for many years.  During her career, Mary has acted for a number of high street Banks, commercial and residential developers, investors, high net worth individuals, project financiers, SMEs and SIPPS.  She has a particular emphasis in relation to health care and related sectors, and also the leisure industry.

Work Highlights

• Acted for a law firm on the relocation of their head office.  This involved coinciding the timing of three lease terminations on existing premises.

• Advised The Rank Organisation in connection with their portfolio comprising hotels, marina developments, leisure parks, amusement centres and motorway service areas.

• Advised a banking group on the refinancing of loans of £63m to two offshore companies over all of their trading assets.

• Advised on Dominos Pizza’s rapid expansion of units (encompassing new developments) in all parts of the country.