Spear’s Review

Katherine Simpson leads the leasehold enfranchisement practice at Edwin Coe, which she joined in 2018 alongside head of residential property Rosie McCormick Paice.

Simpson represents leaseholders, helping them to secure their rights and purchase freeholds from landlords, particularly on London’s largest estates, including the Grosvenor and Cadogan estates. Having previously acted for some of these estates and other pre-eminent landlords, she brings insider knowledge of their approaches and documents.

Simpson tells Spear’s she is ‘top of my tree’ in enfranchisement and at the ‘forefront of what’s going on in the arena’. She cites her deep expertise and ability to find creative solutions to very complex enfranchisement problems, particularly around the Leasehold Reform Act 1967, valuations and Crown Estate claims. Her approach is practical and client-focused: ‘People come to me because they like to think that I can unlock any enfranchisement problem.’