Lale Safaoglu

Associate

Areas of Expertise

Lale is an Associate in our Real Estate team and works with clients on a variety of development projects including large scale regenerations, acquisitions of land for the development new housing and the delivery of affordable housing.

Lale advises clients on a range of documentation including development agreements, JV agreements, conditional contracts, planning agreements, infrastructure agreements and leases for Registered Providers and private developers.

Lale also works closely with our corporate and commercial team in relation to ensuring that clients have the right structures in place to deliver and fund their development programmes and to manage ongoing schemes. This includes the incorporation of management companies and various management and service agreements.

Experience

Before undertaking her training contract, Lale was a Paralegal at Devonshires as part of the Development Sales team specialising in plot sales, affordable housing and shared ownership.

During her training contract, Lale spent a year in the Banking, Governance & Corporate team assisting on various joint ventures, restructures and corporate acquisitions and mergers. Lale also trained closely with one of our commercial partners advising on several data protection and privacy matters and completed a seat in Housing Management and Real Estate.

Education

Brunel University, LLB

BPP Law School, LPC

Professional Membership