MANDEEP KAUR
London
Summary
Results-driven Real Estate Associate with 1.5 years’ post-qualification experience (PQE) and over 10 years’ experience in legal property transactional work. Skilled in handling a broad range of commercial and residential real estate matters, including acquisitions, disposals, leases, and development projects. Recognised for delivering precise, pragmatic advice and managing complex transactions efficiently from inception to completion. Results-driven Real Estate Associate managing a diverse portfolio of commercial and residential transactions. Delivers precise, pragmatic advice and drives complex deals from inception to completion. Focuses on strategic land acquisitions, infrastructure arrangements, and bespoke documentation to meet client needs.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate (CILEx Conveyancing Practitioner Lawyer), Real Estate
GOWLING WLG LLP
Birmingham
01.2025 - Current
- Strategic land, land acquisition and routine real estate transactions
- Experienced on land transactions including acquisitions, disposals structured through share purchase agreements requiring the novation and re-papering of promotion and option agreements into an SPV.
- Regularly manages property due diligence and search strategies in connection with strategic land disposals and collaboration agreements, and advises on the property aspects of land acquired under such arrangements.
- A broad range of infrastructure arrangements, including infrastructure agreements, deeds of easement, transfers to utility undertakers and other site-enabling documentation.
- Familiar with regeneration projects, including lease surrenders and acquisitions of redevelopment sites, and undertakes bespoke drafting and negotiation of infrastructure and ancillary documentation to address site-specific constraints, nuances and title complexities.
- Experience includes advising on drafting of legal charge documentation and dealing with deferred payments under structured legal charge structures.
- Work is delivered as part of multi-disciplinary deal teams, coordinating closely with regulatory, insurance, corporate finance and tax specialists on the corporate, funding and structuring elements of transactions, including the provision of specialist tax advice.
- Experienced in tailoring advice based on specific instructions and bespoke drafting on commercial transactions.
- Acted on a complex corporate real estate acquisition involving the novation of a portfolio of promotion and option agreements into a newly incorporated special purchase vehicle created pursuant to a share purchase agreement, coordinating with landowner and purchaser counsel and delivering the completion mechanics including deeds of assignment, variation and supplementation, consultant appointments assignments, reliance documentation and releases of title restrictions and bespoke drafting relating to individual option and/or promotion agreements
Senior Paralegal, Real Estate
GOWLING WLG LLP
Birmingham
07.2020 - 12.2024
- Dealing with a caseload of matters relating to highway and sewer adoption agreements, deeds of grant/leases/transfers relating to gas, electricity, pumping stations, telecommunication supplies, transfers of affordable housing and collecting interim payments for affordable housing
- Drafting and issuing client care letters at the point of instruction and scoping out the work as much as possible from the outset and providing a fee estimate in accordance with any agreed Fee Scale with the client
- Highlighting matters revealed by due diligence searches as they are discovered to clients so as to allow as much time as possible to discuss remedies and proposed courses of action
- Checking the initial draft of the standard document is correct and accords with the client's instructions, thereafter, proactively driving any negotiation of the document with confidence and taking instructions from the client where necessary in order to achieve an early completion
- Effective and proactive contact with the client and other solicitors throughout the transaction to achieve completion within a timely manner
- Drafting and issuing formal reports on documents to clients, obtaining their approval prior to requesting or issuing engrossments
- Experience in reviewing search results, preparing search reports and flagging any issues to clients to consider on land acquisition matters
- Submitting Land Registry applications on land acquisition completed matters
- Submitting SDLTs on land acquisitions matters
- Dealing with applications to Companies House to register legal charges
- Providing demands and needs statements for clients when obtaining quotes for insurance
- Managing and prioritising caseload and ensuring that where any deadlines have been agreed that those are adhered to
- Organising workload in a trackable manner and prioritising as appropriate
- Ensuring matters are invoiced promptly upon completion or within appropriate interim timescales
- Seeking supervision when required
- Providing training and supervision in a professional, friendly and approachable manner to junior colleagues
Paralegal, Real Estate
GOWLING WLG LLP
Birmingham
06.2017 - 06.2020
Conveyancing Executive
Alsters Kelley LLP
Royal Leamington Spa
01.2016 - 06.2017
Conveyancing Assistant
Alsters Kelley LLP
Royal Leamington Spa
10.2015 - 01.2016
Conveyancing Fee Earner
JS Law Property Lawyers
Market Harborough
09.2013 - 07.2015
- Open new conveyancing files and deal with initial client care matters
- Instruct and check search results
- Apply for Official Land Registry Title Deeds
- Prepare Contracts and accompanying documentation
- Freehold/Leasehold Title Checks, raise enquiries and checking reply to enquiries
- Prepare Sale/Purchase reports and send them to clients
- Prepare Financial Statements and Invoices
- Exchange contracts with lawyers
- Land Registry and Stamp Duty and Land Tax submission
- Competently deal with clients via telephone and in person in a professional manner
- Deal with post completion matters
- Re-Mortgages/Plot purchase/Transfer of Equity/Right to Buy
- Develop professional working relationships and introduce new business to the firm
Customer Payment Solutions & Disputes Advisor
Barclays
Coventry
06.2012 - 03.2013
- Recognised and identified potential transactional client disputes and provided the customer with solutions
- Set up relevant cases if required
- Advised customers of the case process and informed them of any follow up action required
- Used multiple Banking computer software systems efficiently and effectively
- Customer service, problem solving, dealing with customers sensitively in challenging situations
- Scanned through bank statements quickly but efficiently to find certain information relating to either fraudulent activity or transactions relating to disputes with merchants
Residential Lettings & Property Management
Central Housing
Royal Leamington Spa
06.2006 - 02.2012
- Year 10 work placement, gained a weekend and summer job
Legal work experience programme
DLA Piper Law Firm
Birmingham
02.2008 - 02.2008
- Organised share certificates
- Assisted trainee solicitor with ad hoc duties such as photocopying, proof reading documents and familiarising with house style documents
- Attended workshop conferences that DLA Piper solicitors conducted
- Gained an insight into how the law firm operates and given the opportunity to network with DLA Piper employees
Education
CILEX Conveyancing Practitioner Lawyer -
12-2024
Law LLB (Hons) -
University of Northampton
Developing Leadership Award certificate -
University of Northampton (with Institute of Leadership and Management)
Pathways to Law Programme -
University of Warwick
3 A – Levels - English Language, Psychology, Economics
Myton School
WarwickGCSEs - Inc. Double Award Maths, English & Double Award Science
Myton School
WarwickSkills
- Property due diligence
- Legal documentation
- Contract negotiation
- Client relationship management
- Land acquisition
- Case management
- Regulatory compliance
- Multi-disciplinary collaboration
- Strategic planning
- Effective communication
- Client care
- Problem solving
- Workflow organization
Hobbies and Interests
- Associated Board of Royals Schools of Music certification in Piano playing and Theory of Music
- 6th Kup in Tae Kwon Do
- Hiking
- Health & Wellness
- Networking
- Socialising
- Reading
Timeline
Associate (CILEx Conveyancing Practitioner Lawyer), Real Estate
GOWLING WLG LLP
01.2025 - Current
Senior Paralegal, Real Estate
GOWLING WLG LLP
07.2020 - 12.2024
Paralegal, Real Estate
GOWLING WLG LLP
06.2017 - 06.2020
Conveyancing Executive
Alsters Kelley LLP
01.2016 - 06.2017
Conveyancing Assistant
Alsters Kelley LLP
10.2015 - 01.2016
Conveyancing Fee Earner
JS Law Property Lawyers
09.2013 - 07.2015
Customer Payment Solutions & Disputes Advisor
Barclays
06.2012 - 03.2013
Legal work experience programme
DLA Piper Law Firm
02.2008 - 02.2008
Residential Lettings & Property Management
Central Housing
06.2006 - 02.2012
CILEX Conveyancing Practitioner Lawyer -
Law LLB (Hons) -
University of Northampton
Developing Leadership Award certificate -
University of Northampton (with Institute of Leadership and Management)
Pathways to Law Programme -
University of Warwick
3 A – Levels - English Language, Psychology, Economics
Myton School
GCSEs - Inc. Double Award Maths, English & Double Award Science
Myton School