Mona is a solicitor specialising in leasehold enfranchisement with a focus on statutory and voluntary lease extensions and collective enfranchisement. She regularly acts for both landlords and tenants and has experience navigating group matters involving high-value residential blocks in London.
Mona is particularly skilled in guiding clients through technical and nuanced processes under the Leasehold Reform Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 and the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987.
She advises both UK based and international clients ensuring matters are dealt with efficiently and strategically.
Mona likes to give her clients clear and pragmatic advice and appreciates that complex legal principles need to be distilled into easily understood actionable solutions.
Practice Areas
- Enfranchisement (including individual voluntary and statutory or group lease extensions, and groups wishing to collectively enfranchise).
- Granting licences for alterations and to assign, deeds of variation, grants of wholly new leases and deeds of covenant
- Advising on disposal of an interest (rights of first refusal) under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 such as advising a landlord who wishes to sell their interest in a building that contains multiple flats or advising a tenant on purchasing a cupboard in a communal area.
- Mona Power assists Graham Jaffe with de-enveloping matters – the process by which residential property in the UK held in the name of an offshore company is transferred into the personal names of the beneficial owners, which if, handled correctly, does not involve payment of Stamp Duty Land Tax.
Interests
Mona is a keen traveller and avid scuba diver and enjoys exploring different cultures and cuisines. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her Siberian cat Loki (including taking him on walks around Greenwich Park) and painting Warhammer miniature figures.
Mona has experience advising high net worth individuals and has been involved in large scale residential acquisitions for landed estates in Central London. Mona’s recent work experience has included acting on behalf of social housing clients.