Upcoming Events :
Housing Seminar: Partnerships with the Public Sector – Avoiding the pitfalls
Thu 31 May 2012
Minerva House, 5 Montague Close, London, SE1 9BB
Danna Leslie
Position: Solicitor
Danna is a New Zealand trained solicitor. Now qualified in the UK, Danna works in the Housing and Regeneration department acting for housing association, house builder and residential landlord clients. Danna has acted in a number of freehold reversion acquisitions together with the acquisition of sites for residential development.
Recent experience
- Acting for a Housing Association in the acquisition of a 280 unit mixed tenure development including site assembly and preparation of HIP and LSP documentation
- Acting on behalf of a Housing Association for a conditional acquisition subject to planning of a mixed use site and the assignment of a build contract for the development of the 82 affordable housing units
- Acquisition of numerous freehold and leasehold interests on behalf of the UK’s top portfolio management companies, including the acquisition of a hotel on a long lease and a 300 unit residential development
Professional memberships
Law Society of England and Wales
Admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 2000
Work history
2006 to present - Solicitor, Winckworth Sherwood
2004 to 2006 - Short term contracts as a property Lawyer at the London Boroughs of Greenwich, Hounslow and Merton and at Hannah & Mould Solicitors
2001 to 2004 - Solicitor, Seller Bone & Partners, Auckland, New Zealand
2000 to 2001 - Solicitor, Cooney Lees & Morgan, Tauranga, New Zealand
Publications
Netball and touch rugby, a keen spectator of most sports, travel
