Helen Wheddon

Partner
Helen provides clients with clear, commercial advice to navigate their contentious property issues.
Helen provides clients with clear, commercial advice to navigate their contentious property issues.

About

Helen is Head of Real Estate Disputes. Helen’s practice primarily covers commercial property and development work acting for landlords, investors and developers as well as the businesses that occupy those properties.

Her client base crosses different sectors and she heads the firm’s Hospitality & Leisure group.

Helen joined Stevens & Bolton in 2007 and she has built up extensive experience engaging closely with clients to understand their property disputes. Helen strives to identify any opportunities and resolve disputes in the most appropriate way with strategic and pragmatic advice, in language clients understand, no matter how complicated the issue.

Expertise
Franchising Real estate disputes Hospitality and leisure Industrial and logistics

Experience

  • Recent work
    • Reaching settlement in long running litigation over a complicated tenancy dispute for an investor client.
    • Advising on lease renewal strategies to ensure a major corporate occupier’s continued presence in its head office.
    • Advising an investor client on its options in relation to potential nuisance, easements and covenants impacts from the proposed redevelopment of a neighbouring site in the City.
    • Helping clients resolve property related insolvency issues from defaulting tenants.
    • Advising on forfeiture and possession of commercial and residential property.
    • Dealing with rights of light issues related to developments.
  • Qualifications and recognition
    • Helen is top ranked in Chambers for Real Estate Litigation and a leading partner in Legal 500 South East and London for Property Litigation.
    • She is a member of the Property Litigation Association and Women in Property.
  • Reaching settlement in long running litigation over a complicated tenancy dispute for an investor client.
  • Advising on lease renewal strategies to ensure a major corporate occupier’s continued presence in its head office.
  • Advising an investor client on its options in relation to potential nuisance, easements and covenants impacts from the proposed redevelopment of a neighbouring site in the City.
  • Helping clients resolve property related insolvency issues from defaulting tenants.
  • Advising on forfeiture and possession of commercial and residential property.
  • Dealing with rights of light issues related to developments.
  • Helen is top ranked in Chambers for Real Estate Litigation and a leading partner in Legal 500 South East and London for Property Litigation.
  • She is a member of the Property Litigation Association and Women in Property.
Helen Wheddon’s expertise and advice is second to none. Her attention to detail and valuable opinion guides clients through challenges and towards a successful conclusion.
Legal 500 2025

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