Russell Cooke Bedford Row Holborn

About Signe

I take a practical approach and enjoy building a long lasting relationship with clients. I enjoy working as part of a team both internally and also as part of the professional team on particular transactions.

Signe’s work involves advising on a full range of real estate matters including sales and purchases, landlord and tenant work (grants, assignments, variations, licences and surrenders), secured lending and development.

Signe trained at a large regional firm and practised with them on qualification in September 2018. She also spent two years practising real estate in an offshore law firm in Jersey, Channel Islands. 

Signe joined Russell-Cooke in February 2022.

Experience

  • Advising and drafting complex deeds of easement for developer clients
  • Acting for both landlord and tenant clients in retail and office leases
  • Being part of a team advising over 70 individual and corporate tenants in relocating their retail units and lease renewals which form part of a large development project in central London
  • Assisting on the acquisition of various freehold and leasehold sites for a corporate client
  • Acting for an offshore investor in the sale of a multi-let office building with occupational leases
  • Representing a corporate client in their refinancing of their mixed use property portfolio and managing their tenancies
  • Acting for a major retail client across the Channel Islands in their company restructuring project which involved assigning their retail leases and franchises

Education

  • Studied Law and Sociology (BA) at the University of Warwick, graduating with a 2:1
  • Completed the Legal Practice Course at the University of Law, Bloomsbury, obtaining a commendation
  • Trained and qualified at a large regional firm in September 2018
  • Practised real estate as an English lawyer in an offshore law firm in Jersey, Channel Island for two years following qualification

Memberships

  • Member of the Law Society

Signe's highlights

News

08.07.2024

Russell-Cooke advises Bloom on the acquisition of an industrial estate near Canary Wharf

Russell-Cooke has advised Bloom on its acquisition of Poplar Business Park, an industrial estate adjacent to Canary Wharf in east London...
Neil Dryer, Partner in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team. Katie Cooper a senior associate, Russell-Cooke, real estate, planning and construction team. Lucy Nichol, Senior associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team. Signe Sparne, Associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team. Sadia Sham, Associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team.
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Neil Dryer, Katie Cooper, Lucy Nichol, Signe Sparne, Sadia Sham
News

10.06.2024

Reflecting on UKREiiF 2024: insights and connections

Partner, Pippa Beesley and associates Signe Sparne and Joe Maloney from Russell-Cooke's real estate team reflect on their time...
Pippa Beesley (1) Joe Maloney, Associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team. Signe Sparne, Associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team.
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Pippa Beesley, Joe Maloney, Signe Sparne
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