Amanda McNeil

Practice Areas

Amanda McNeil is head of Howard Kennedy's Real Estate Dispute Resolution team and specialises in contentious issues relating to commercial and residential property. She focuses on enabling clients to find the best outcome for their unique circumstances.

She advises landlords, retailers and other commercial occupiers with their asset management needs and works with commercial developers on site clearances, restrictive covenant issues, boundary and other disputes. She acts for high-net-worth individuals on disputes relating to their personal property portfolios and homes in the UK.

Amanda’s expertise in commercial property disputes includes acting on Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 lease renewals (including opposed renewals), forfeiture actions, rent recovery, service charge disputes, dilapidations claims, enforcement of covenants, rent reviews and withholding of consent to assign/sublet/carry out alterations. She additionally guides clients through original tenant liability and liability of guarantors issues, disputes over rent deposits and property insolvency issues.

Amanda's residential property experience includes advising on exercising the right to manage, service charge disputes, enforcement of covenants, and possession proceedings (both Rent Act tenancies and Assured Shorthold tenancies). Most recently she acted for the successful leaseholders in the Court of Appeal on a service charge dispute relating to expenditure in excess of £2.7 million (89 Holland Park Management ltd v Dell).

Amanda acts for both landlords and tenants advising on all aspects of leasehold enfranchisement including lease extensions of flats, collective enfranchisement (whereby the leaseholders in a building join together and buy the freehold), freehold purchase and lease extension of leasehold houses.