Property Conference

An experienced and dedicated real estate professional, Simon has 35 years’ experience working in the London and UK commercial property markets. His career spans multi-national firms such as Knight Frank and CBRE to founding his own practice in 1993. Simon’s client base includes leading developers such as Canary Wharf Group and Land Securities as well as National and Local Government departments. Simon is a leading industry
figure, being Chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Commercial Markets Board as well as an author of several RICS Standards and Guidance Notes and public speaker.

Mark Shelton is a freelance legal trainer, having practiced in major commercial law firms for thirty years. He qualified with Linklaters and has always specialised in property litigation. Mark was a Partner at Lawrence Graham, and has acted for major property investors, financial institutions and leading retailers. He was a Professional Support Lawyer for a number of years, most recently at Eversheds Sutherland LLP, working with the UK’s largest specialist real estate litigation team. He is a contributor to Estates Gazette, Property Week and Property Law Journal, and the author of books on a range of commercial property management topics.

Steven is a tax-qualified chartered surveyor who has specialised in capital allowances for more than 25 years.

As a director at Gateley Capitus, Steven works with businesses that are buying, building or refurbishing commercial property to help them pay the right amount of tax in a low risk way by optimising the capital allowances available to them. Before joining Gateley Capitus, Steven held senior roles in Big 4, specialist boutique and national mid-tier accountancy firms. He is a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Association of Taxation Technicians.

Alongside daily practice, Steven is a tax incentives writer and speaker who is the author of Bloomsbury Professional's Capital Allowances: Transactions & Planning, RICS's Practice Note on Capital Allowances, Thomson Reuters Practical Law Co's Replying to CPSE.1 Enquiry 33 on Capital Allowances, the capital allowances chapter in Tolley's Tax Planning and various Practice and Drafting Notes for LexisPSL.

Rebecca is a Chartered Accountant. She is a lecturer, writer and consultant on a variety of taxes, lecturing extensively throughout the UK, to accountants, business people and also to HMRC and the Treasury. She has worked for firms of accountants and a manufacturing company, and now owns her own accountancy practice based in Gloucestershire, with a variety of small business and personal tax clients. She continues to lecture to professional colleagues, and also volunteers for various organisations providing support on financial education to school students and on tax to elderly taxpayers.

Rebecca is Editor of Tolleys Taxwise books, and consultant editor on Tolley’s Income Tax and Whillan’s tax tables. She writes for various tax publications from time to time, and is a former editor of Tax Adviser magazine. Rebecca is a past Chair of the Tax Faculty of the ICAEW. She was named Best Tax Lecturer at the Lexis Nexis Taxation Awards in 2007, and was awarded an MBE for services to the tax profession in 2012.

Lee has joined the technical team, after spending 3 years in industry with Jaguar Land Rover in their Business Assurance team with his primary responsibility being to deliver the Sarbanes Oxley programme while acting as a mediator for operational functions and the external auditors. Prior to that Lee was an audit manager at PwC’s East Midland having a diverse client base across a number of industries.