Katherine Worrall
Senior Associate
Commercial Real Estate
+44 (0) 20 7079 8125
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Areas of Practice
Track Record
Property investors and landlords: Advising on acquisitions, financings and all aspects of asset management/ landlord and tenant issues. She works closely with clients, managing agents and other professional advisors to align with client strategies and optimise performance.
Tenants: Providing comprehensive advice on leasing premises in central London and nationwide, including assisting a number of overseas clients with the establishment of flagship UK headquarters.
Acting for a UK based landlord on the disposal of a portfolio of office, retail, warehouse and mixed-use premises (both in central London and across England) for over £110 million.
Acting for an overseas landlord on the letting of a major central London office building for an annual rent of over £2 million.
Acting for a family office tenant taking a flagship west end London office letting.
Acting for an overseas hotel client in the refinancing of its £40m UK bank loan arrangement.
Acting for a specialist developer in the purchase of a site in Oxfordshire, with planning for a high-quality housing development.
Acting for a UK based private client in the sale of a development site on the south coast for £15 million.
Memberships
Midtown Business Club
BPF Futures
Westminster Property Association NextGen
CREation Property Network
Education & Qualification
University of Nottingham and University of Queensland
Qualified as a solicitor in 2015 and trained with Boodle Hatfield
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Read more 3 min read 27 Aug 2025 Demystifying lease renewals for contracted-out tenancies: A guide for new property investorsLease renewals can be a complex process, especially when the lease is contracted out of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. Real Estate Partner, Sophie Henwood, has produced a short guide for new property investors, outlining key considerations for negotiating a renewal, for both landlords and tenants.
Read more 4 min read 31 Jul 2025 Chancel repair liability ancient, unusual, obscure and onerous…Some landowners may still be liable for repairing the chancel of a parish church, a historic legal obligation dating back to the feudal system. In this article, Partner, Saskia Arthur and Senior Associate, Kate Symons look at the Law Commission’s consultation on reforms to the Land Registration Act 2002 (LRA), which seeks to clarify how chancel repair liability should be recorded and enforced, not to abolish it, but to ensure the relevant provisions of the LRA operate as originally intended.
Read more 4 min read 17 Jul 2025 Proposed ban on upwards only rent review provisionsThe Government recently published the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, which proposes banning upwards-only rent reviews in commercial leases. The change is still subject to Parliamentary approval. Under the current system, rent on review can only increase or stay the same and cannot drop below the current rent, even if market rates fall. Partners, David Rawlence and Sophie Henwood, and Associate Kate Symons, outline the key aspects of the proposed ban.
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