Joanna Bullard

Senior Associate, Commercial

T: 01635 508168

E: [email protected]

Jo is a Senior Associate at Gardner Leader and is part of the Commercial Team

Jo qualified in 1998 and joined Gardner Leader in 2016 having previously worked for regional heavyweight firms in Oxfordshire and Berkshire.

Jo specialises in commercial property work acting for a variety of corporate clients and public authorities. Her work includes landlord and tenant matters, sales and purchases, secured lending, development and on the property aspects of corporate asset and share sales acquisitions and disposals. Jo has represented a number of banks in respect of refinancing of property and mortgage portfolios.

Jo’s commercial and pragmatic approach in dealing with transactions helps clients achieve their end goal.

Jo’s transaction highlights include:

• Acting for a tyre distributor on a £180m refinancing and multiple site acquisitions;
• Acting for various lending consortiums on numerous refinancing matters including a £200m refinance of a national chain of self- storage outlets;
• Acting for lenders in connection with the refinancing of various football clubs;
• Acting for a local authority in granting a long lease of a leisure centre to a private school conditional on substantive works;
• Acting for a local authority in respect of an ongoing first registration project of all of their freehold assets in Oxfordshire

Memberships

Qualified: 1998
Joined: 2016