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Dellah Gilbert
Profile:
Dellah is the Head of Real Estate Disputes at Maples Teesdale and has extensive experience in a wide variety of property-related contentious commercial property issues through negotiation, mediation or proceedings, including high value dilapidations claims, hostile lease renewals, multi-million pound development disputes, rights of light, rent review and development issues and professional negligence. Dellah is the co-Head of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Maples Teesdale and was the Chair of the Property Litigation Association in 2023.
Professional experience:
- Successfully acting for The Cavendish Hotel (London) Limited, part of The Ascott Group of companies, in opposing the grant of a new tenancy to its retail tenant on the ground of redevelopment, which is now the subject of appeal proceedings to the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.
- Recovering news agency premises for Surrey Investment Limited, for significant breaches of the lease
- Supervising numerous lease renewal proceedings for various shopping centre owners, including CBRE Investment Management, in Colchester, Epsom and Hammersmith and Fulham
- Advising Legal and General in relation to environmental health claims arising from redevelopment works at The Grafton Centre, Cambridge
Professional history:
- Trainee, Lovells, 1991 - 1993
- Solicitor, Lovells, 1993 - 2006
- Of Counsel, Lovells, 2006 - 2015
- Partner, Maples Teesdale, 2015
Memberships:
Awards and recognition:
- Property Litigation Association appoints new Chair - November 2022
- ‘Direct access to partner level advice which is clear and concise.’ Legal 500 2023
- ‘Dellah Gilbert is clear in her advice and commercial in her approach.’ Legal 500 2023
- ‘The Maples team offer a partner led value for money service.’ Legal 500 2023