Howes Percival adds lease and enfranchisement expert to growing Commercial Property team

4th August, 2025

Law firm Howes Percival has appointed lease and enfranchisement specialist Ruth Burrell to its growing Commercial Property team in East Anglia.

Ruth has over 20 years’ experience in commercial property working for landlords and tenants on leases of all types of commercial properties. She also works for clients buying or selling commercial properties. Ruth enjoys dealing with trickier aspects of property law, such as, restrictive covenants, unregistered land and adverse possession and has developed a specialism in lease extensions and leasehold enfranchisement dealing with rights to enfranchise, rights of first refusal and lease extensions, both agreed and statutory.

Howes Percival’s Commercial Property team has a reputation as one of the largest and most skilled teams of property legal specialists outside London. The team acts for many household names, including some of the country’s largest housebuilders, commercial developers, investors, lenders, business owners, charities, landowners, construction firms and public sector organisations.

Tessa Haskey, Howes Percival Partner, commented,

We are delighted to welcome Ruth to Howes Percival. Ruth knows the local market and brings a wealth of experience, particularly regarding landlord and tenant and the more complex freehold work and will be building a specialist enfranchisement team, which I know our clients will really appreciate.

The Commercial Property team is growing in response to the increasing number of instructions being received from commercial and mixed-use landlords and tenants and residential landlords or investor tenants. With two key pieces of legislation currently affecting and potentially reshaping parts of the residential leasehold property market and the possibility of commonhold on the horizon, we are anticipating the workload to remain significant.

For more information on Howes Percival’s Commercial Property team, visit: https://www.howespercival.com/services/commercial-property/

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