Charlotte Whitworth

Charlotte Whitworth is a solicitor and co-head of corporate real estate team advising on a range of corporate matters with specialisms in corporate real estate and student accommodation. She is also co-lead of the student accommodation group. She acts on a wide variety of transactional and non-transactional corporate work including mergers and acquisitions, corporate real estate matters and general company law matters. She focuses on corporate real estate and has deep sector knowledge of the real estate market which is used to her clients' advantage when completing transactions. Much of her work has a strong international focus. Charlotte acts for developers, landowners and investors in documenting their joint venture arrangements (including shareholders, LLP, and contractual profit share arrangements). Charlotte also deals with all aspects of corporate wrapper acquisitions and disposals. She takes a commercial and pragmatic approach when assisting clients and delivers commercial and strategic advice to her clients. Charlotte is one (of three) of the firm's appointed representatives for the international network Meritas and is a member of the Meritas Young Lawyer Advisory Board. Charlotte has been appointed Chair-Elect of the Meritas Emerging Leaders Advisory Board. This is the first time Meritas has elected a chair from outside North America. · Howard Kennedy LLP