HSF Kramer has hired Alison Hardy from Ashurst to lead its London real estate disputes team.
Top-ranked Hardy joins HSF Kramer after seven years at Ashurst, where she led the firm’s real estate disputes team.
HSF Kramer has poached Ashurst’s head of real estate disputes, Alison Hardy, to lead its property litigation team in London.
Hardy joined Ashurst in 2018 from Squire Patton Boggs and went on to lead its real estate litigation team, focusing on development issues, energy and infrastructure matters, investment disputes and distressed real estate M&A.
She is ranked Band 1 by Chambers for real estate disputes work.
The move comes as the newly merged HSF Kramer finds its footing after the firm’s transatlantic tie-up with Kramer Levin which went live on 1 June.
What they said
Matthew White, managing partner of HSF Kramer’s UK and EMEA real estate practice, said: "Alison’s extensive experience across the entire spectrum of commercial real estate disputes complements our market-leading position in real estate across the UK, New York and Australia and will reinforce our reputation as a global disputes powerhouse. We are excited for Alison to join the firm".
Hardy said: "I am excited to build on the firm's successes to date and to be a part of its ongoing growth as a newly combined firm".
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