11 Mar 2026
Addleshaw Goddard appoints Kirsty Chalkley as Partner in Manchester Real Estate team
"Addleshaw Goddard hires Kirsty Chalkley as Partner in its Manchester Real Estate team to work in transactional real estate development, focusing on Later Living, Hotels and Hospitality."
Kirsty joins from Shoosmiths and brings extensive experience advising developers and occupiers across the Later Living, Hotels and Hospitality sectors. She is a transactional real estate development specialist with expertise in site acquisitions, disposals, pre-let and forward-funded developments, turnkey agreements and portfolio management. Kirsty advises developers, operators and multi-site occupiers, including publicly listed companies and household names with significant UK real estate footprints.
Her arrival follows that of Kirsty Black, who joined the firm in January from Shoosmiths, and forms part of Addleshaw Goddard’s continued expansion of its Real Estate practice through strategic lateral hires, including Amit Unadkat, Farhod Moghadam and Steven Ward. Over the past year the firm has welcomed 43 lateral partner hires, 12 of which have been into Real Estate. The appointment brings the firm’s total partner headcount to 465 across 21 offices; the Real Estate team now comprises 78 partners worldwide and a total headcount of 400. The Real Estate practice has recently advised on major mandates such as Arada’s investment in the £2.5bn Thameside West regeneration scheme and was named Outstanding Legal Team of the Year – International & Large Firms at the Property Week Awards 2025.