Carritt Batteson LLP was incorporated as a limited liability partnership when Margarethe Batteson joined the firm on 1st October 2009. We continue to be known as Carritt & Co. Our website is currently being redesigned and we look forward to launching this shortly.


Denise Carritt

Denise Carritt Qualified 1986

Articled at Lee & Pembertons and subsequently worked at Collyer-Bristow and Simmons & Simmons.

Denise originally established Carritt & Co in 1998. In 2001 she incorporated the practice within Lee & Pembertons before leaving to re-establish Carritt & Co as a separate entity at the beginning of 2003. Specialist areas include commercial and residential property, the sale and purchase of businesses and licensed premises and Landlord & Tenant matters, acting for both landlords and tenants in contentious and non-contentious issues. Denise endeavours to understand each client’s business to help maximise the benefit of the transaction in question for the client.

Email: dmc@carritt.co.uk

Margarethe Batteson

Margarethe Batteson

Qualified 1982.

Margarethe worked with Denise at Simmons & Simmons and was with that firm for 22 years overall. There she specialised in commercial property, landlor & tenant and insolvency matters. Her experience encompasses many large property investment transactions. Typically involving sums of £10m - £60m, these included industrial parks, shopping centres, office developments and healthcare portfolios.

Prior to Simmons & Simmons, Margarethe trained at Lawrence Graham.

Email: mb@carritt.co.uk

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