- A Notable Practitioner (Associate to Watch) in ‘Construction (Yorkshire)’
“Helen Johnson is a senior associate and provides support on some of the department's most significant non-contentious work. Clients describe her as ‘very personable, diligent, efficient and knowledgeable,’ and add: ‘She is also very good at explaining technical issues and implications to those of us who aren't naturally legal-minded.’”
Chambers UK 2018 - ‘Construction (Yorkshire and the Humber)’
“Associate Helen Johnson is ‘an excellent lawyer who gets stuck into the detail’”
Legal 500 UK 2017
Qualifications
- Qualified in England and Wales in 2008.
Helen is a Senior Associate based primarily in Kennedys’ Sheffield office. She also works out of our London and Manchester offices.
Helen qualified in England and Wales in 2008.
Helen specialises in advising developers, contractors and consultants on both contentious and non-contentious construction and engineering related matters.
She is entrusted with leading some of the team’s most high-profile work. This year Helen has spearheaded the construction element of a significant due diligence instruction on behalf of a US investor/purchaser of a £500 million hotel deal in the UK, and has been instructed on a series of cases relating to cladding following the inquiries into the Grenfell disaster.
Helen is involved with the Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership and leads Kennedys’ Sheffield office’s charity committee.