Louise Smith

Trainee Solicitor

Biography

Louise is a trainee solicitor in the Banking and Finance team, assisting lenders and borrowers on general finance, corporate and acquisition finance, and real estate finance transactions. Louise's first seat was in the Planning and Infrastructure Consenting team, working on a broad range of planning matters.

Louise joined Ashfords in 2022 as a paralegal in the Real Estate team assisting on a wide variety of real estate matters including commercial development and investment, landlord and tenant and energy and resource management projects. 

Prior to starting as a trainee, Louise worked part time as a professional support paralegal within the Real Estate team whilst studying the LLM (SQE 1&2) full time.

Before joining Ashfords, Louise studied law at Durham University.

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