Luke Kelly

Senior Associate

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What can I do for you

Luke is a senior associate in the Manchester real estate team. He works on a wide range of property transactions including sales and purchases, landlord and tenant asset management and providing support on corporate acquisitions and disposals. Luke acts for a range of high-profile clients including companies, pension funds, institutional investors and individuals.

What do others say

“Thank you for all the great work on this matter. It was a serious effort to get this matter across the line considering where we were a week or so ago, and I couldn’t be happier with your service“ – Client feedback

Luke has been described as having “a very comfortable manner with clients who quickly come to know and trust him”. A document produced by Luke was also described by a client as being their “favourite draft document of all time”.

Supporting your ambitions

Luke has worked on large scale development projects including affordable housing estates and logistics sites. His key responsibilities have included reporting on title, producing development constraint reports and negotiating conditional contracts.

Assisting with the management of a large pension fund’s investment portfolio has also given Luke exposure to a number of regear transactions and bespoke lease drafting.

What else should you know?

Luke is one of Mills & Reeve's Innovation Champions. In this role, Luke promotes, encourages, supports and drives innovation at the firm.

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What our clients say about us

“I think Mills & Reeve are a wonderful firm. The support they have provided to us in a really difficult area has been brilliant, collaborative and commercially minded. The team were absolutely wonderful and a joy to work with. Amazing advice and support and a real collaborative effort with us. I can't thank them enough for getting us through some really tough times and doing so with an amazing can-do attitude.”

“They are friendly, fast, always available and always on top of the game. I tend to judge my legal team against the other side's legal team and never doubt Mills & Reeve is the better of the two.”

“All interactions have been very clear. Responses to questions have always been very swift and unambiguous. Our company, and my family, have used various services in Mills & Reeve with the same level of satisfaction.”

“I value the fact that Mills & Reeve are recognised as a good place to work in the UK Best Companies survey. This aligns with the values of our business and means that Mills & Reeve can share what is required to achieve this status with our business.”