John Southan

Senior Associate, Commercial Property

John Southan, later life planning, will making specialist in Brentwood

How can I help you?

I am a property and private client specialist and act in property work that overlaps with private client matters. I assist my colleagues across our 6 offices with non-transactional property work arising from their estates and trusts, such as assents, assignments, declarations and transfers. I assist my commercial property and residential conveyancing colleagues in interpreting existing trusts and analysing beneficial interests within their property transactions. I resolve title issues at the Land Registry, such as adverse possession, lost deeds, first registration and advice on charity property transactions, and advise co-owners on declarations of trust between them. I am a support lawyer for our Commercial Property department on these matters. 

Qualifying as a solicitor in 2006, I have extensive experience in both property and private clients. I am a Senior Associate in our Commercial Property Department, and although I am based in our Saffron Walden office, I assist colleagues across our office network as required. I have a broad base of experience, having worked in residential and commercial property, and in Private Client since matters 2012. 

Delivering what you really need

I support my clients, other property solicitors and private client solicitors at Tees in resolving or interpreting complex title issues and interpreting beneficial interests, as well as non-transactional property matters that involve trustees holding land or distributions to and from estates and trusts and transferring beneficial interests and declarations of trusts recording beneficial ownership between co-owners.

What else should you know?

I qualified for a STEP Diploma in trusts and estates in 2016 Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.  Before working locally in Saffron Walden, I spent many years working in Brentwood and, before that, in Central London and Hornchurch. In between university, I spent one year studying international and comparative law while living in the Netherlands and I still like to travel.


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