Expertise

Ella is an Associate in the Transactional Real Estate team based in London, having joined the firm in June 2025. Prior to this, Ella worked in London as a real estate lawyer for a Swedish global fashion retailer and an American multinational law firm, having originally trained and gained property law expertise at a leading firm in New Zealand.

Experience

Ella has experience in sales, purchases and asset management in both the office and retail spheres in London and throughout the UK, including:

  • Advising Realty Income Corporation on the acquisition of several retail parks.
  • Advising Battersea Power Station Development Company in the letting of an office unit in Battersea Power Station.
  • Advising a US-based financial services firm on the leasehold acquisition of their headquarters in central London.*
  • Leading negotiations for multiple retail leases within a property portfolio of over 250 stores in the UK for the world’s second-largest fashion retailer.*
  • Advising a US healthcare corporation on aspects of their property portfolio ahead of the spin-off of a division of its business into an independent, publicly traded company.*
  • Acting for a US institutional investor on the negotiation of asset management documents relating to their retail warehouse asset class.*

* Prior to joining Addleshaw Goddard

Education
  • BA / LLB – University of Auckland 
Professional Memberships
  • Kiwis in Property (London) 
  • YEP London (You & Everyone in Property)