Joanna Osborne

Highly knowledgeable and experienced, Joanna is committed to identifying what really matters to her clients and to using her strategic insight and technical skills to create innovative, practical and commercially aware solutions. Her priority is always working out what is best for her clients, which usually means looking to exit disputes as quickly as possible and on sensible terms.

Joanna has experience of the broadest range of property disputes, covering both residential and commercial properties and sometimes a mix of the two. She encourages a creative and tailored approach by her bright and capable team. Although sometimes litigation is inevitable, the focus is on achieving the right commercial outcome for a client and exploring cost-effective ways of how this can be achieved. 

Joanna and her team carry out the highest quality contentious property work from the most complex to quite modest cases. Whilst having extensive technical skills, Joanna is astute, straightforward and tenacious. She receives a high level of referrals from clients, surveyors, accountants and other lawyers.

The Property Disputes Team has strong bonds with all departments across the firm, in particular the Property, Restructuring and Insolvency, Commercial and Private Client Teams, which means ready access to insights from very different legal disciplines. This collaborative culture has created very long-standing, trusted relationships, ensuring that strategy can be informed quickly by leading experts in other fields.

Joanna advises landlords, tenants, multiple national retailers, developers, local authorities, individual property investors and homeowners. Clients range from substantial PLC’s and ultra-high net worth individuals to small and medium sized businesses, entrepreneurs and private individuals. She particularly enjoys working closely with her clients, constantly learning more about people and businesses and their changing priorities; picking up vital insights which often help unlock seemingly intractable problems. Joanna is always on the lookout for intelligent bespoke strategies to achieve positive outcomes. She leads by example and champions a culture of awareness and great care and attention to detail, coupled with technical acumen and broad legal expertise.