Lisa Thornton

Lisa is a Partner at Hegarty and Head of the Commercial Property team. She qualified as a solicitor in 2007 and specialises in commercial property and rural land matters including:

Rural and agricultural land matters:

• Investigating the extent of a landowner’s land, where the title is either unregistered or registered, according to title deeds and Land Registry records
• Arranging for estates of land to be transferred/assented to a farming partnership, a relative or in accordance with a deceased person’s will
• Acting for clients in the registration of their estates
• Acting for landowners in the grant of option agreements to developers and charges of their land
• Acting for buyers and sellers of rural land including investigating any existing tenancies of the land
• Comparing unregistered title deeds, RLR plans and historic Ordnance Survey plans
• Considering whether mining rights have been reserved to others over a client’s land
• Acting in the creation of overage agreements

Landlord and tenant work – acting for landlords and tenants in connection with:

• Granting, surrendering and assigning leases
• Deeds of variation of leases
• Licences to assign
• Licences for alterations

Site acquisitions and disposals – acting for developers in connection with:

• Conditional contracts and option agreements
• Overage provisions
• Joint venture agreements

Business purchases – acting for buyers and sellers of businesses in connection with:

• Transferring a business’s assets from seller to buyer
• Assigning the goodwill of a business
• Assigning any intellectual property rights of a business from seller to buyer

Acting for lenders in secured lending transactions:

• Performing legal due diligence
• Creating security for lenders

Acting in connection with general property transactions such as:

• Deeds of release of restrictive covenants
• Deeds of easement such as rights of way and right to receive services
• Buying, selling and registering unregistered land
• Transfers of part

Outside of work, Lisa enjoys playing the viola whether the music is classical, modern or written by a friend she often has impromptu music ‘jams’ with. Lisa plays the viola in a local orchestra and is always keen to go to a concert. She also enjoys spending family time with her two daughters and their mischievous (but lovable) dog.