Managing Associate
Mary-Jane is a senior associate in TLT’s Real Estate team in Belfast, specialising in property development (mainly in the private housing sector), commercial investment acquisitions, real estate finance, and loan transfer portfolios.
Mary-Jane is particularly active in the housing development market, acting for a number of key developers in the local market on site acquisitions and the disposal of their new build residential dwellings across NI, leading the TLT new build housing sales team. She also acts for a number of commercial investor clients on acquisition and asset management work, and advises national retail clients on their NI portfolios.
Mary-Jane also has extensive experience acting for lenders in the real estate aspects of loan portfolio transfers, acting for both sellers and purchasers of loan books.
Jurisdictions: Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland
Experience
- advising residential developers on acquisitions and disposals across their private new build residential portfolios and social housing developments;
- acting for investor clients in the acquisition of a number of out of town retail parks;
- advising a number of national retail clients on their NI portfolios, to include negotiating and agreeing leases, renewals, variations, licences and agreements for lease, as well as providing specialist advice on the business tenancy issues and security of tenure provisions of NI landlord & tenant law;
- acting for lenders in the real estate aspects of loan portfolio transfers, leading on the NI aspects of a number of UK wide loan book sales.
Related sectors
Real estate
Retail & Consumer Goods
Financial Services
Government & public services
Related services
Real estate
Real estate investment
Commercial development
Residential development
Insights & events
Crime and Policing Act 2026: Expansion of senior manager criminal liability
FCA Synthetic Data and Anti-Money Laundering project report: Key points for financial services firms
No more one-way rents: the upwards-only rent review ban is now on the statute book
The Balancing Act: Three takeaways on partnerships, capital and trust
SM&CR reform: HM Treasury announces Senior Managers and Certification Regime reforms
FCA's findings on Customer Due Diligence processes and controls: Good and poor practices
FCA and PRA publish final rules on operational incident reporting: firms have to ready by 18 March 2027
FCA finalises Phase 1 SM&CR reforms: what firms need to do now
PRA publishes Phase 1 SM&CR reforms: What firms need to know now
FCA puts inactive appointed representatives under the microscope
SFO publishes business plan for 2025-26: Geared for the future
FCA sets expectations for stronger outcome‑focused governance in Year 3 Consumer Duty board reporting
FCA's guidance on targeted support in consumer segment design: considerations for firms
The Bank of England and PRA set out plans for safe AI innovation: What firms need to know
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Retail Agility: Navigating the AI frontier in retail
The land use challenge: creating a system to deliver net zero
EV Charging Infrastructure in Northern Ireland: Outlook | TLT
The fast and the curious: Empowering in-house lawyers to create business value
Driving Demand: EVCI Funding and Development Opportunities | TLT
Government and public services legal panel appointments
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TLT hires new partner turbocharging its UK-wide real estate offering
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TLT real estate expansion results in second partner hire in two months
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The Balancing Act: Partnerships, trust and patient capital
The Balancing Act: Setting the scene for regeneration
ESG in Action: Balancing the basket with the British Retail Consortium
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The Future Fund - one month on | Scale-up insights episode eight
Scale-up Insights episode six - Employee incentives
When good tax decisions go wrong: Governance, filing positions and HMRC scrutiny - Webinar
Biodiversity Net Gain: What’s changing and what it means for you
International Fintech Case Study: Brexit Contract Migration | TLT
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