Elizabeth Thomas

Elizabeth is a commercial property specialist with a focus on working with property investors, corporate occupiers, charities and clients in the public sector. She has in-depth experience across a range of commercial property matters, including conditional sales and purchases, option agreements, agreements for lease and property management matters. She has over eight years of experience in advising education bodies (including Universities, Cambridge colleges, FE institutions and private providers) in respect of their portfolios and is used to working to tight timescales in order to achieve the desired result by the necessary deadline.

Elizabeth’s practice also includes buying and selling student accommodation and she has acted for a number of overseas property investors in this sector, steering them through the complexities of the UK market. Following one such acquisition, Elizabeth was described by the client as “responsive, focussed, hardworking, punctual, cool as a cucumber and just an all-round pleasure to deal with”. 

• 2022 - Present: Howes Percival LLP, Partner
• 2017 - 2022: Howes Percival LLP, Director
• 2017 - 2019: Howes Percival LLP, Senior Associate
• 2007 - 2017: Mills & Reeve LLP
• 2006 - 2007: Legal Practice Course, Northumbria University
• 2003 - 2006: University College London (Laws)