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Alexandra Ketchley

Legal Director

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Alexandra Ketchley

Alexandra joined us in 2011 and is an experienced member of our commercial property team. She was promoted to legal director in 2024.

Alexandra is a senior member of the commercial property team with 16 years experience of advising in the commercial property sector.

After beginning her career at national law firm Addleshaw Goddard in Leeds, Alexandra gained experience in both corporate restructuring and commercial property and brought with her the specialist knowledge and experience she gained working on large and complex property transactions.

Since joining The Endeavour, Partnership Alexandra has become an integral part of the commercial property team. She has significant experience of all types of commercial property transactions and has built a broad client base which includes developers, investors, secured lenders, charities and pension funds.

She most frequently works collaboratively with the firm’s active corporate and commercial team on substantial company acquisitions, disposals and restructurings involving commercial property and property finance/funding.

Alexandra has substantial experience in real estate finance transactions, and through Endeavour’s close links with the region’s banking sector, she has advised numerous financial institutions and other secured lenders (and those obtaining finance from them) in connection with the real estate security elements of financial loans.

She has also undertaken a client secondment to The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) (a quasi-publicly funded technology innovation centre which aims to overcome commercial challenges in process and product innovation/development for innovators) working full-time in the business’s legal team.

After returning from a period of maternity leave and following growth in the commercial property team, Alexandra now has a hybrid role within the team which includes a professional support element in which she uses her extensive experience to assist the team in delivering client services more effectively with a focus on knowledge sharing, training and developing, precedents and working practices.

  1. 2009

    Qualified as a solicitor

  2. 2011

    Joined The Endeavour Partnership as a solicitor

  3. 2016

    Advised on the successful site acquisition, development, letting and financing of a 12-unit Sandgate Park commercial development in Ingleby Barwick, Teesside.

  4. 2017

    Undertook a client secondment at The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), leading the development of CPI’s Healthcare Futures Centre on the site adjacent to the National Biologics Manufacturing Centre at Darlington, dealing with the initial site acquisition from Darlington Borough Council and advising on the future intended development of the site.

  5. 2018

    Promoted to senior associate

  6. 2019

    Advised institutional lender, HSBC Bank UK plc, in relation to the urgent refinancing of the substantial portfolio of one of the North East’s largest leisure operators Vaulkhard Group as part of a £7m investment deal. The refinancing was completed within 18 days of instructions being received.

  7. 2021

    Advised the administrators and LPA receivers of historic engineering company Cleveland Bridge UK Limited on an urgent attempted sale as a going concern, and the ultimate realisation of the company’s complex £6m commercial property assets.

  8. 2021

    Completed the property due diligence and provided a CLLS certificate of title in relation to Yarm School’s prestigious commercial property site to secure substantial investment for ambitious further development.

  9. 2023

    Acted for a financial institution who provided development finance through its security nominees for the £700,000 redevelopment of the Bowles Hotel and museum on Redcar seafront, completing the initial site acquisition within 3 weeks. The site development uncovered a buried cache of gold treasure and historic documents, which the developer incorporated into a museum dedicated to local history within the property.

  10. 2024

    Chaired a roundtable discussion with Stockton Borough Council, local business leaders and stakeholders on changing demand in the commercial office sector and the commercial response to it which was featured in the North East Times Magazine.