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Simone Ketchell

Partner

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
1-3 Charter Square
Sheffield
S1 4HS
United Kingdom
Languages English

Simone heads up our Sheffield based Real Estate Litigation team whilst working with members of our teams based in London and Bristol to deliver a seamless service to clients. The Sheffield team is one of the largest, if not the largest, regional specialist litigation team consisting of nine specialist  lawyers, one legal executive, two paralegals, two trainees and one legal apprentice. 

Simone has over twenty-three years’ expertise with a focus on development disputes and has recently delivered complex vacant possession strategies on current major, high profile, redevelopments for SEGRO Plc, NewRiver, Hermes Real Estate, Mileway and The Mayfield Partnership.  

She is highly valued by her clients as evidenced by the breadth of her client base and work including: her instruction on the ground-breaking £1.4 billion, 15-year regeneration project of the former Mayfield train station site in Manchester; and involvement as the lead partner advising SEGRO Plc, a FTSE 500 property investment company, on the expansion of Heathrow airport. 

She also has extensive experience in the High Court litigation of conditional break options.

In addition, Simone is acting on a range of real estate disputes including injunctions, service charge disputes, tenant insolvency, forfeiture, dilapidations claims, contested lease renewals and contractual disputes for BP International, Mileway, AXA, BBC Pension Fund, SEGRO Plc, Hammerson, Hermes, Sheffield University and Aberdeen Property UK Retail Parks Partnership. 

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"Simone Ketchell is 'incisive, commercial and unflappable'."

Legal 500

Relevant experience

  • A multinational oil and gas supermajor on proposals by the Ministry of Defence to sell the Government Pipeline and Storage System for aviation fuel in the UK.
  • A global investment management group on the major redevelopment of a retail park.
  • BP International Limited on a major dilapidations dispute.
  • Jamie Oliver Group Limited on various real estate disputes.
  • Bloomberg LLP on a major dispute concerning its iconic head office.
  • Intergraph in Intergraph (UK) Ltd v Wolfson Microelectronics Plc on successfully challenging the tenant’s right to exercise the break option in the High Court.
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Memberships & Roles

  • Member of the Education and Training Committee of the Property Litigation Association.
  • Member of the Lexis Nexis Property Disputes Steering Committee.
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Education

  • 2000 – LPC, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham
  • 1999 – LL.B., University of East Anglia, Norwich
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