Jane Havergal

London  020 3745 6535 ·Truro  01872 672072

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Jane joined Paddle & Cocks in 2020 after 35 years’ experience in the City of London as a commercial property and property finance solicitor, including eight years' post qualification at Clifford Chance, partnerships from 1998-2015 at Pritchard Englefield and Thomas Eggar LLP, consultancies from 2015 at Thomas Eggar, Irwin Mitchell and Setfords, and six years as a principal lawyer at the City of London Corporation from 2017 advising on high profile property and infrastructure projects, including the proposed relocation of the City’s wholesale markets and the new court development in Fleet Street.

The Legal 500 2015 mentions Jane as “recommended”, and cites two of her transactions as the highlights of her firm’s London office property offering that year, including the acquisition of a department store in Newbury and a hotel in Docklands for an Austrian hotel group.

Jane has a doctorate in German studies from the University of London, speaks fluent German and is a qualified translator. Her clients over the years have included many corporates and public/government bodies from the German speaking world.

Jane’s commercial property experience includes property aspects of acquisitions and disposals; investment/development/project finance; corporate support; property insolvency; and commercial leases, acting for both investment landlords and occupational tenants. At Clifford Chance, Jane worked on property aspects of the 1990s privatisations of coal, nuclear and rail, and she has ongoing experience of infrastructure projects.

Since 2024 Jane has been the legal representative for England and Wales at the Association of German Pfandbriefbanks (VdP) Round Table in Berlin which meets regularly in Berlin to address issues of property security in countries throughout Europe and elsewhere in the world. She has published in German on English property law, including a book on Commercial Property Law in England and Wales commissioned by the British German Chamber of Commerce in London in 2000. Since 2000 she has given talks in German on English property security to German bankers and lawyers in Berlin and BaFIn in Bonn at the invitation of the VdP and its Academy.