“Penny Shannon is very professional and a talented lawyer.”
Legal 500 UK, 2024
About
Penny is a senior associate in the firm’s Real Estate Disputes team. She advises clients on a wide range of contentious real estate issues, and focuses particularly on advising landlords and corporate occupiers and is recognised as having considerable experience dealing with rent reviews, lease interpretation, end of lease and termination issues.
She also has significant experience advising landowners and developers on all aspects of the development life cycle.
Experience
- A top tier global financial institution: Advising on the successful settlement of the rent review of its flagship London headquarters building.
- A major UK professional services firm: Advising on a multi-million pound dispute against the landlord of its UK headquarters due to failure by the landlord to comply with its repairing and maintenance obligations.
- The Worshipful Company of Leathersellers: Advising on all contentious matters arising from their extensive portfolio of London based properties.
- An institutional landowner and developer client: On seeking and obtaining prescriptive rights of way over Network Rail, unlocking significant site value and facilitating sale of the site.
- A major UK developer: Conducting a detailed analysis of their entire UK development portfolio to assess and deal with residual liabilities prior to sale.
Credentials
- Admitted as a solicitor: England & Wales (2006)