Our Team

Rachel Hudson

Partner and Head of Residential Property

Rachel qualified as a Solicitor in October 2005.

Having trained in mid cheshire, she really enjoyed her Residential Property Seat during her training contract.  It was a natural choice for her to qualify and practice within this area.

Rachel has spent all her working life within the Cheshire and South Manchester area.  She works mainly within Residential Property handling sales, purchases, remortgages, and transfers of equity for leasehold and freehold property including newbuilds, auctions and the sale and purchase of Land and also handles property portfolio refinances.

Rachel has significant experience of handling property matters for high-net-worth individuals and also Pension Schemes, Limited Companies, Sports Personalities, and other well-known Public Figures.

Examples of her work includes completing the purchase of a £3m residential property in Cornwall for a Limited Company using Bridging Finance. The purchase completed within 6 hours of receipt of the contract papers and mortgage documentation.   Rachel also completed a purchase of a listed farmhouse with agricultural tie and agricultural Land for £8m for a Premiership footballer.

Rachel’s primary focus is always looking after her clients and communicating in a clear, concise manner.  She frequently gets numerous repeat instructions from clients because her priority is always great communication and really understanding her client’s needs and objectives in order to ensure completion takes place at the earliest opportunity and ensuring the matter runs smoothly and efficiently.

Paul Donnelly

Head of Construction Law

Paul is our Head of Construction.  Paul has well in excess of thirty years’ experience in construction and engineering law matters.   Having spent almost ten years at a major City of London practice, Paul has experience in working in and around the north-west for more than twenty-five years, albeit working on projects across the country.

Paul is widely experienced in acting on behalf of (public and private sector) employers, contractors, sub-contractors, consultants and suppliers in all forms of dispute resolution on contentious matters including adjudication, litigation, arbitration, expert determination and mediation.

Paul also has extensive experience in non-contentious construction and engineering matters, acting on behalf of (public and private sector) employers, contractors, sub-contractors, consultants, suppliers and lenders.  Paul prepares, amends and advises on building and engineering contracts and sub-contracts (including the various forms of JCT, NEC and ICE contracts), consultant’s appointments (both bespoke and institutional forms), collateral warranties, novation agreements, security documentation, development agreements and terms and conditions.

Christopher Williams

Head of Corporate

Christopher is the Head of our Corporate and Commercial Department advising businesses on a wide variety of matters including mergers and acquisitions, disposals and reorganisations, partnerships, joint ventures and all types of commercial contracts and agreements.

Christopher deals with all types of business clients from small start-up businesses to medium and large corporate enterprises across a wide spectrum of sectors including tech, hospitality, retail and property as well as private equity investors.

Christopher has over 30 years of transactional experience working in both private practice for several large international “Magic Circle” and “Silver Circle” law firms and in industry as the most senior in-house Corporate Counsel for the Co-operative Group.

Outside of work, Christopher is a single parent to two grown up children and enjoys playing golf and watching any sport (other than football).

Safia Iftikhar

Head of Private Client

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