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

14.05.2025

Russell-Cooke promotes seven to senior associate

Today Russell-Cooke announces seven senior associate promotions with effect from 1 July 2025. The new associates hail from real estate, property law and conveyancing and property litigation...
James Carroll, Managing Partner in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, family and children team. Joe Maloney, Associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team. Chloe Nixon, 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. Harriet Collins, Associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, family and children team. Bryony Shaw, Associate in the Russell-Cooke, property law and conveyancing team Kelly Stannard, Associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, property litigation team. Amy Anderson, Associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, personal injury and medical negligence team.
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James Carroll, Joe Maloney, Chloe Nixon, Signe Sparne, Harriet Collins, Bryony Shawe, Kelly Stannard, Amy Anderson
News

07.05.2025

Real estate legal news—May 2025

Welcome to the fifth edition of Russell-Cooke’s real estate legal news. We continue to keep updated of legal developments and the trends in the UK real estate world...
Edward Fairweather, 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.
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Edward Fairweather, Signe Sparne
News

24.01.2025

Propski 2025: a week of skiing and networking

From 17–22 January, associates Signe Sparne, Rohan Basin and Nick Manning headed to Propski 2025 in Val Thorens, joined by senior associates Thomas...
Signe Sparne, Associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team. Rohan Bhasin, Associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team. Pippa Beesley (1) Katie Cooper a senior associate, Russell-Cooke, real estate, planning and construction team. Fiona Buckland, Associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team. Thomas Ferguson, Senior associate in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, real estate, planning and construction team. Nick Manning
Multiple Authors
2 min Read
Signe Sparne, Rohan Bhasin, Pippa Beesley, Katie Cooper, Fiona Dos Santos, Thomas Ferguson, Nicholas Manning
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