About Anna
A solicitor with a breadth of property experience, Anna joined Horsey Lightly in 2025. She was a partner for 20 years in a boutique law firm in Winchester where she gained a reputation as a trusted advisor to owner-managed businesses and developers and for her determination to understand the bigger picture. More recently she was head of real estate in a niche planning law practice, acting on substantial renewable energy projects.
Anna is approachable, reassuring, confident, capable, straight-talking and pragmatic.
Anna read modern languages at Cambridge University and has travelled extensively worldwide, with numerous adventures on the way to expand her repertoire of dinner party anecdotes. Nowadays, however, she prefers to spend time at home with her ever-expanding collection of animals and to grow her own vegetables.
Specialist in high value commercial and development property transactions
- Acquisitions and disposals of investment and owner-occupied property across the retail, office, industrial and agricultural sectors
- Acting for household names on managing shopping centres and investment portfolios
- Drafting and negotiating leases, agreements for lease, licences to assign, sublet and alter, deeds of variation, deeds of easement, covenants, leases of easements and deeds of surrender
- Advising on all aspects of property management including lease renewals and rent reviews
- Drafting and negotiating options, conditional contracts, promotion agreements, overage deeds and planning agreements for development land
- Advising on restrictive covenants
- Acquiring and disposing of sites for pre-lets to convenience store operators
- Setting up management companies, preparing plot sales packs and handling the sales
- Secured lending
- Buying and selling at auction
- Farm sales and purchases, advising rural landowners on regeneration of outbuildings, telecoms masts, strategic development, family farming partnerships, working closely with accountants and surveyors on tax planning