AISHATH SHIFANA AHMED

• Handle a wide range of real estate finance matters, representing both borrowers and lenders.
• Primarily act for established bridging lenders and financial institutions, ensuring securities have clear and marketable titles.
• Conduct thorough due diligence on securities to ensure compliance with lending requirements and mitigate risks.
• Draft and review security documentation, ensuring compliance with legal requirements and best practices.
• Handle payments and billing, ensuring accuracy and timely execution.

Real Estate Finance

• Assist with a wide range of real estate finance matters, representing both borrowers and lenders.
• Conduct due diligence on securities to ensure compliance with lending requirements and mitigate risks.
• Draft and review security documentation, ensuring compliance with legal requirements and best practices.
• Address and resolve inquiries raised by the post-completion team in a timely manner.
• Oversee and manage the redemption process, ensuring seamless and efficient transactions.
• Handle payments and billing, ensuring accuracy and timely execution.

Housing Management

• Draft tailored legal advice on housing management matters, ensuring clients receive practical and effective solutions.
• Ensure strict compliance with court directions, handling both pre- and post-trial matters efficiently.
• Prepare comprehensive witness statements and affidavits, strengthening the evidentiary foundation of cases.
• Related advocacy in County Courts.

Built Environment and Compliance

• Conduct general landlord and tenant work for social housing providers, ensuring legal compliance.
• Draft and issue breach of tenancy and anti-social behaviour injunction applications, and possession proceedings.
• Related advocacy in County Courts.
• Develop and deliver presentations and training sessions to social housing providers on key compliance issues, such as handling complaints, anti-fraud measures, and money laundering prevention.

• Provide comprehensive support to fee earners across all matters, ensuring compliance with court directions, procedural requirements pre- and post-trial directions.
• Manage a high volume of cases simultaneously, demonstrating excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Maintain up-to-date and accurate client files in the case management system, ensuring all records are current and accessible.
• Regularly review case files for inactivity, initiating closure procedures where necessary to maintain efficient workflow.

• Draft and issue criminal charges, ensuring accuracy and adherence to legal protocols.
• Develop comprehensive litigation strategies.
• Lead successful trial and appellate litigation, achieving favorable outcomes.
• Manage and supervise a dedicated team as the Department Head for the Sexual Offences, Domestic Violence, and Juvenile Delinquency Unit, ensuring efficient case management.

• Shadow associates and partners in their day-to-day work, gaining hands-on experience and insight into complex legal matters.
• Attend court hearings, actively taking detailed notes to assist with case preparation and strategy.
• Conduct in-depth legal research, contributing to case analysis and the development of strategic legal arguments.