Zoe Wright
Partner
A property litigation specialist acting for a wide range of clients including land developers, investment landlords, corporate occupiers and charitable trusts on all aspects of real estate and landlord and tenant law with a particular focus on property related telecommunications law and water law.
Main areas of practice
Heading up the Property Litigation team across Thames Valley, London and Cardiff providing strategic advice and litigation expertise to real estate clients dealing with land law matters such as restrictive covenants and easements, development agreements, telecommunications law, water law, agricultural law and site clearance issues as well as providing the full gamut of property asset management services including advising on business lease renewals and exits, interim and terminal dilapidations claims, tenant default and insolvency.
Clients
Acting for investment landlords, developers, corporate occupiers, national retailers, telecommunications site providers and charitable trusts.
Expertise & Services
Zoe is an exceptional adviser in every respect. The depth of her knowledge and her client service delivery are first class.
Career
Trained with Shoosmiths LLP qualifying in September 2002 and becoming a Partner May 2015 before joining Blake Morgan LLP as a Partner in May 2019.
Accreditations
Memberships
- Property Litigation Association
- Agricultural Law Association
Significant Experience
- Advising a premiership football club on its strategy to obtain vacant possession from telecommunications operators to allow a multi-million pound redevelopment scheme to progress.
- Acting for a global car manufacturer, obtaining an interim injunction in respect of a business critical car parking easement and thereafter successfully obtaining at trial the grant of a business lease renewal of the split reversion premises and protecting the associated car parking easement.
- Advising a REIT status commercial property investment company on all aspects of landlord and tenant matters arising from their £multi-million office and industrial property portfolio.
- Acting for a charitable trust and long leaseholder of an internationally renowned heritage attraction on various matters including defending against the threat of an interim injunction from a business park tenant regarding the client's multi-million pound re-development scheme and successfully settling the dispute following an intensive all day mediation and lengthy subsequent negotiation settlement process.
- Managing for over 8 years a 600 unit leasehold property portfolio for a national travel agency on all aspects of landlord and tenant law.
Quotes
Insights by Zoe
Articles 12 May - Zoe Wright
Upwards-only rent reviews: what the new statutory ban means for commercial leases
The long‑anticipated ban on upwards‑only rent reviews (UORRs) has now been enacted as part of the English Devolution…
Articles 7 August - Zoe Wright
Breaking badly: Site provider’s break notice and Telecoms Code Rights
The Court of Appeal’s recent decision in On Tower UK Ltd v British Telecommunications Plc discussed the validity…
Articles 8 July - Zoe Wright
Telecoms operators can now install and manage telecoms masts on Local Authority land with far less difficulty and cost
Since the new Electronic Communications Code (“the Code”) came into force on 28 December 2017, a number of…
