Orla Gilligan
Consultant – Property Solicitor, Commercial and Technical Residential
About Orla
Orla is a commercial and residential property lawyer in our experienced Property Team.
Orla acts for individuals and trusts in complex residential property transactions.
In commercial property matters, Orla acts for individuals and small to medium sized business clients, including sole traders, partnerships, and limited companies. She refuses to butter her clients up or be dishonest with them, and if anyone else does she’ll make sure her clients are aware.
Orla originally qualified as a solicitor in 2001, following a nursing career. She developed keen empathy, focus and attention to detail caring for very ill babies and their devastated parents in a Paediatric High Dependency Unit.
Nowadays Orla applies those skills to her work as a very thorough, client- focused and tenacious commercial property lawyer. She is driven to do the very best she can for all of her clients.
Orla believes that as a Solicitor she is under a professional obligation to do her very best and to act in the best interests of her clients, with honesty and integrity. She grew up in a rural part of Northern Ireland, and says she has the skills to spot cow manure and other suspicious behaviour a mile off. She also has the courage to challenge them when they affect her clients’ transactions.
Legal Specialisms
- Commercial Property Buildings – sale and purchase of commercial buildings
- Development land – including sales, purchases, title-splitting, pre-emption agreements, options and overage agreements
- Commercial Property Financing – including commercial mortgages and bridging loans, and advising on debentures and guarantees
- Commercial and Residential leasehold matters - including new Leases, Enfranchisement, and right to manage – acting on behalf of Landlords or Tenants
- Complex residential property transactions - including new-builds, plot sales, title splitting, shared ownership, adverse possession, retirement home leases, and other leasehold transactions.
Legal Expertise In Practice
- Commercial New Build Property - Advised a developer on the creation of a mixed commercial freehold and residential leasehold development forming part of four titles and involving financing, planning requirements, consents for services and access, and negotiating acquisition of a ransom strip.
- Site Development - Advised developers on CIL, service agreements, planning compliance and third party consents regarding a proposed residential development.
- Complex residential matters - Advised a farmer who was selling part of his farm and part of a developed site on the farm. The site was jointly owned between the farmer and his deceased wife, and a life trust. A lifetime mortgage was also discharged.
- Commercial Leasehold - Drafted ‘full maintain and insure’ protected and unprotected commercial leases, dealing with commercial lease renewals proceedings for both landlords and tenants.
- New Build Purchases - Advised Mr & Mrs N. on the risks faced in purchasing a house on a poorly designed and build new-build development.
- New Build Sales - Site development and multiple plot sales for a national home builder.
Related Services
"Orla did an amazing job. Things got more complex than I ever thought possible because my previous conveyancer had rushed my new-build purchase and didn’t register my property correctly. Orla communicated with the developer and corrected the problems on my title. She was patient, helpful and communicated regularly throughout. I’d give her 10 stars if I could!"
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11 Haven Road, Canford Cliffs, Poole, Dorset, BH13 7LE
