Gateley Legal bolsters Reading residential development team with four appointments

By Tom Kilkelly

30 May 2023

Share

The Business Magazine article image for: Gateley Legal bolsters Reading residential development team with four appointments

L-R): Sarah Webb – legal director, Tracy Best - associate, Andy Wilson - partner and head of Gateley Legal’s residential development land acquisition team in Reading, Delphine Mehouas – partner and Az Perwaz – solicitor. Credit: Stewart Turkington

Commercial law firm Gateley Legal has reinforced its expansion in the South East with four new appointments to its Reading-based development team.

Delphine Mehouas joins as a partner. Mehouas is well experienced, having spent 25 years at BDB Pitmans specialising in residential development acquisitions for local and national housebuilders as well as residential developers.

Sarah Webb joins Gateley from a decade long stint at Boyes Turner, her new role will be as legal director. Sarah has 20 years of experience in supporting housebuilders, residential developers and land traders with matters including acquisition disposals and the promotion of development sites across the South East.

Next is Tracy Best who has been appointed as an associate at Gateley following her departure from Knights, where she worked for eight years. Tracy will support the acquisitions team and work alongside senior team members whilst also being responsible for the development of junior employees.

AZ Perwaz joins as a newly qualified solicitor following two years of training at Taylor Rose MW. Az has experience in residential property matters and high-value transactions.

Partner and head of Gateley's residential development land acquisition team in Reading Andy Wilson said: “Due to significantly widening our client base, and increasing our number of housebuilder panel appointments, the residential development team has brought in new talent to support acquisition work.

''As well as appointing experienced hires to bolster the team, we also continue to commit to supporting new talent to create a home-grown team which truly understands the unique needs of our housebuilder and developer clients in this region.”

By Tom Kilkelly

Tom Kilkelly started working as a freelance journalist for The Business Magazine following his graduation from UCL in 2022.

During his studies Tom became very interested in the works of Irish authors including Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan).

His current role as a freelance business reporter is his first exposure to the world of business journalism. Working at TBM has given Tom the chance to really get to grips with the goings-on in the business hive that is the South East.