“Emma Bean has a tenacious eye for detail, leaving no stone unturned.”
Legal 500 UK, 2024
About
Emma is a senior associate in the firm’s Real Estate team. After training and practising at the firm for a number of years, she re-joined the firm in 2022 following a period in academia.
She has a wide range of experience in real estate investment and management matters but now specialises in development transactions, acting for landowners on the disposal of strategic land by way of option agreements, promotion agreements and conditional contracts and advising on overage arrangements.
Emma retains an involvement in academia, and is a visiting fellow at the University of Plymouth.
Experience
- Landed estate: Advising a landed estate on the disposal of circa 150 acres of prime employment land by option agreement (with associated overage arrangements).
- Consortium of landowners: Advising a consortium of landowners in relation to the promotion of their land for residential development, including advising on various collaboration agreements and other agreements in relation to third party land.
- Private landowners: Acting for private landowners to put in place equalisation arrangements in respect of the residential development of their land.
- PLC Client: Acting for a large PLC client on the sale of surplus land to a house builder for the construction of three new residential estates.
- Landed estate: Acting for a landed estate on the disposal of land for residential development under a hybrid promotion and option agreement, including advising on the real estate aspects of the strategic utilities diversion and installation.
Credentials
- Admitted as a solicitor: England & Wales (2007)
- PhD: Fisheries Law, UWE (2021)