Zahra Farooq
Senior Associate - Commercial Property
"I am a commercial property lawyer with a particular interest in assisting clients secure commercial lending on their assets.”
I trained and qualified at Higgs LLP after moving to Midlands from Bristol. As a senior associate in the commercial property team, I advise on all aspects of commercial property work, including disposals and acquisitions, landlord and tenant work, property finance and corporate support work. I take pride in delivering a people centred, high quality and cost effective service to my clients.
I am particularly involved in property finance, working with both established high street banks and secondary lenders. I
have built excellent relationships with my peers in the corporate banking and brokering fields, which really lends itself to resolving tricky issues for borrower clients.
I regularly arrange community gardening projects for my colleagues with a local primary school and volunteer with a number of Dudley based secondary schools to share careers advice and support.
- Regularly act for established national convenience store chain in disposing of trading stores and assisting with managing a substantial property portfolio.
- Acted for a German business expanding into the UK on acquiring a site at almost £1 million in annual rent.
- Acted for the executors of a deceased estate to dispose of multiple properties at auction in very tight timescales.
- Acted for a long established Dudley business in switching all banking facilities from HSBC to Handelsbanken
- Acted for an investor to secure circa £1 million over a Birmingham property portfolio.
More about me
Favourite food
Can’t beat a good hearty lasagne but must also mention the underappreciated okra
Favourite book
At the moment it would be The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
Childhood career goal
A palaeontologist- as a property lawyer I do occasionally get to dig through near fossilised deeds.
Interests
Acting, weightlifting, spending time with my two ferocious daughters and the odd bit of vegetable gardening