Phillips Solicitors goes from strength to strength

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Phillips Solicitors goes from strength to strength

Hampshire law firm Phillips Solicitors continues to grow from strength to strength by expanding its team with the recent appointment of Clare Strachan as a Legal Director in the Commercial Property Team, and Anna Burdett qualifying into the Employment Department after completing her Training Contract with Phillips. In March, Katy Gardener will join as the firm’s newly appointed Head of Marketing and Charlotte Botham will join as a Private Client Solicitor.

Clare Strachan

Anna Burdett

Prior to joining Phillips, Clare Strachan practiced with Stevens & Bolton LLP in Guildford for seven years. She previously trained and practised in the City of London at leading international firms Olswang LLP and Nabarro LLP. Bringing with her a wealth of experience, Clare advises on a wide variety of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, landlord and tenant matters and general asset management. She has acted for institutional investors, developers and significant corporate occupier clients, particularly in the retail and leisure, office and industrial sectors. Clare also has specialist experience acting for large corporate occupiers on their new site acquisitions and openings across the UK and advising leading owners and operators of advertising hoardings on their portfolio acquisitions, disposals and management.

Anna Burdett has qualified into the Employment Law team this month, after completing her training contract with Phillips. Having graduated from Exeter University with a 2.1 in Law, Anna completed the Legal Practice Course (LPC) with distinction at the University of Law, Guildford, in 2019.

Katy Gardener has previously worked as a marketing consultant for Phillips, presenting on marketing strategy and its online footprint. Katy’s previous marketing career was focused online with global marketing for the West End theatres. In her new role, Katy will work on all marketing opportunities including the, shortly to be launched, new Phillips’ brand and website, as well as sponsorship opportunities and press exposure.

Charlotte Botham was a commercial property lawyer with city firms Pinsent Masons and CMS for 10 years before taking a career break to raise her children. She returned to private practice in 2019 as a private client solicitor in a local firm. Charlotte will enjoy a split practice at Phillips, across private client and commercial property work.

Phillips partner Jack Gardener commented: “We are excited to be expanding our talent pool within Phillips; Clare, Anna, Katy and Charlotte are great assets to our firm, and will bring a further boost to the excellent calibre of staff we have at Phillips. They are all fantastic additions to our growing firm, and I am very much looking forward to working with them.”

It seems that Phillips have a talent of holding on to their staff! They are proud to have celebrated some long services awards in the past few months, ranging from 20 through to 40 years! ■