About Me

Joanne is an experienced environmental, regulatory and licensing lawyer.

Joanne specialises in both contentious and non-contentious environmental and regulatory issues. She regularly advises on environmental risk, liabilities and regulation; real estate and corporate transactions; general environmental and regulatory compliance; site exits, decommissioning and remediation liabilities and regulatory actions.

Joanne is head of the firm's Licensing practice. She regularly advises on licensing, gambling and gaming issues.

Joanne advises clients across a number of sectors including energy and utilities, education, food, hotels, leisure and tourism, manufacturing, real estate, sport and transport and is ranked in Chambers UK 2020 as a 'Star Associate'.

Joanne is a member of the Institute of Licensing and the Gambling Commission's Industry Lawyers’ Forum. Joanne contributes to external briefings on environmental and licensing law, including writing for The In-House Lawyer and Lexis. Joanne also provides training on environmental, regulatory and licensing issues both to clients and to external bodies, including university lecturing.