Posts Tagged ‘awards’

Jake Cohen recognised in The Lawyer Hot 100 2025

Posted on: January 28th, 2025 by Natasha Cox

Senior Associate Jake Cohen has been featured in the 2025 edition of The Lawyer Hot 100. This highly anticipated annual list recognises the successes of lawyers from in-house, private practice and the Bar, as well as those who are shaping the legal profession. The 100 lawyers on the list are selected for the excellent work they are doing at the present moment, with talented rising stars rubbing shoulders with eminent lawyers who have years of success behind them.

Jake’s entry highlights his ground-breaking work in the field of sports law, with The Lawyer noting that “Cohen has been advising many athletes since they were academy players and the trust relationship he has with these high-net-worth individuals is such that word of mouth regularly brings new instructions — such as a popular grime artist who is now on the books. Institutional relationships with clubs complement the work for individual athletes: new American owners are another big client base. There’s plenty more market share to go at. This team is set to grow and grow.”

Commenting on his recognition, Jake said: “I’m delighted to be included in a list filled with so many brilliant colleagues who are doing genuinely incredible work. Any personal recognition I receive is a direct result of being very lucky to have an incredible team at Lawrence Stephens – Mo Pasricha, Will Bowyer, Angelique Richardson, Andy Wallis and Anna Chasioti-Metson) and amazing clients who have trusted us with the privilege and responsibility of advising them.”

For more information on the work of our Sports and Entertainment team, please see here

Triple shortlisting for Claire Allan and the Lawrence Stephens’ Leasehold Enfranchisement team

Posted on: May 30th, 2024 by Natasha Cox

Now into its 15th year, the annual Enfranchisement and Rights to Manage Awards has evolved into a prominent event, recognising excellence in the leasehold enfranchisement and right to manage sector.  The eminent and independent judging panel has reviewed all the submissions made and they have now revealed the final shortlist.  This peer-reviewed judging process ensures independent quality in the decision-making. 

As well as the firm being shortlisted in the Solicitors Firm of the Year category, Director and Head of Leasehold Enfranchisement Claire Allan has been personally shortlisted in the Solicitor of the Year and Professional of the Year categories. This triple shortlisting acknowledges Claire and her team’s expertise in advising leaseholders and landlords in this complex field, navigating them through the statutory lease extension or collective enfranchisement process.

Claire’s arrival at the firm has brought together and given focus to work already being undertaken by others through formally establishing the firm’s Leasehold Enfranchisement department. Client feedback confirms the benefit of the enhanced perspective gained by the team through experience of and acting for freeholders, head landlords and tenants.

Claire is actively involved in the real estate market and an active participant in a number of initiatives, including raising awareness of issues identified in the proposed leasehold reform amendments. She mentors and guides less experienced members of the team and more widely through her involvement in industry organisations.

As a consequence of her energy and enthusiasm, the scale and complexity of cases undertaken by her team has increased markedly. Examples include acting for the landlords of a number of West London mansion blocks, head landlords where the freeholder is a significant landed estate, and acting for the tenants on a mid-sized complex collective claim in Covent Garden against a multinational PLC.

The winners will be announced at the awards dinner on 11 July at the Leonardo Royal Hotel, near St Paul’s in London.