Moore Barlow has appointed Jess Ready and Natasha Jones to its commercial property and corporate teams respectively, following year-on-year growth across the firm. The hires support the firm’s strategy to expand its offering in Southampton and across the South East.
Ready (pictured) joins the commercial property team after more than 14 years at Shoosmiths, where she became a legal director in 2022. With over 17 years’ experience, she advises institutional landlords, corporate investors, developers and occupiers on high-value commercial property transactions, with particular expertise in asset management, telecoms, renewable energy and infrastructure.
Jones joins the corporate team from South Coast firm Laceys, where she was a partner. She advises on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity investment, and high-value finance and refinance transactions, and has previously acted on AIM floats, multi-jurisdictional acquisitions and complex real estate matters during her earlier career in London.
Ready said she was ‘excited about the growth opportunities across commercial property’, citing the firm’s focus on ‘asset management and renewable energy and infrastructure’. Jones said her focus would be on providing ‘practical, commercial advice that helps [clients] move forward with confidence’. Edward Whittington, managing partner at Moore Barlow, said the appointments reflect the firm’s ‘ambition to continue growing our corporate and commercial property teams’.
