Jenny Lovern Senior Consultant Solicitor

Jenny qualified as a solicitor in 2002 and has worked in some of the world's leading law firms, both in a fee-earning and business development capacity. She specialises in residential and commercial property transactions.

Areas of expertise

Residential Property

• Sale and purchase of freehold property
• Sale and purchase of leasehold property (non-BSA)
• Remortgages
• Equity release
• Property transactions supporting probate
• Property transactions arising from court orders, including divorce

Commercial Property

• Sale and purchase of freehold commercial property
• Granting leases
• Acquiring leases
• Associated leasehold management documents, including licence for alterations, deed of surrender, rent deposit deeds, authorised guarantee agreements, licence to assign and licence to underlet
• Financing and refinancing, acting on behalf of borrowers and/or lenders for standalone and property portfolios

Approach to work and clients

For Jenny, meeting and exceeding client expectations is key. She takes a proactive approach with clients and other professionals involved in the matter, prioritising communication to make collaboration easy and drive the transaction forward.

Jenny enjoys the different challenges that commercial and residential transactions bring. With commercial transactions, she finds the challenge of complex, high-profile work rewarding. With residential transactions, she enjoys assisting people with one of the biggest transactions of their lives. 

Notable cases

Jenny has worked for various household names, including banks, PLCs, fashion brands, and high-net-worth individuals. She has advised at General Counsel and board level. Memorable highlights of her career include.

Commercial property:

• Meeting with the world's leading Italian fashion brand in Mayfair, advising on their assignment of their New Bond Street Store.
• Being the sole solicitor for one of the country's leading public schools' central London property estate, the money from which provides the bursaries for students, ensuring social mobility.
• Representing a consortium of banks in one of London's largest refinancing transactions for a notable building in the Square Mile.
• Acquiring a building near Hyde Park for a foreign embassy.  
• Winning new business and onboarding one of the country's leading car hire companies.

Residential property:

• Assisting a grieving mother in disposing of her late son's property, ensuring the smoothest transaction feasible in view of the difficult emotional circumstances.
• Helping an adult client with physical and mental disabilities buy her first property, having lost both of her parents, which meant she needed to sell the family home.

In her spare time, Jenny actively campaigns for change in the Special Educational Needs space, from both an education and social perspective.