Caroline Roberjot and Melanie Benson recommended by Spear’s as leading property lawyers

Caroline Roberjot and Melanie Benson recommended by Spear’s as leading property lawyers

Caroline Roberjot and Melanie Benson have been recognised by Spear’s as leading property lawyers in the Spear’s Property Advisers Indices 2026, released today.

Caroline is Top Recommended for securing trophy buildings in the Property Lawyers Index, whilst Melanie is Recommended for landlord and tenant issues. 

The Property Lawyers Index highlights lawyers trusted by high net worth individuals to offer expert advice in the real estate sector. It is collated using information collected from and about the advisers through evaluating submission forms, gathering nominations, conducting peer reviews, analysing data from third-party sources, obtaining references and recommendations and carrying out hundreds of interviews.

Caroline’s profile can be found here and Melanie’s can be found here.

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Caroline Roberjot Partner

Caroline is a partner who advises individuals in respect of their UK property transactions both personally or via their offshore trusts or family offices.

Caroline is a partner who advises individuals in respect of their UK property transactions both personally or via their offshore trusts or family offices.

Her work involves prime and super prime London properties as well as country estates. She also acts for several private banks both in the UK and offshore, and has well-established connections with individual clients, trust companies and banks in the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Monaco, Switzerland and Singapore.

Caroline deals with all aspects of property across the UK, including sales and purchases, financing, lease extensions, licences, easements and landlord and tenant work.

Caroline has a high reputation in this area and has been recognised by Spear's as one of the top five property lawyers, and also in Chambers, The Legal 500 and Citywealth, receiving the Citywealth Power Women Silver Award 2021.

Caroline is on the fundraising board for The Children’s Air Ambulance, the committee for The Gulls Eggs Luncheon for Cure Parkinsons and the council for The Mayfair & St James Association.

Melanie Benson Partner

Melanie is a partner and head of the real estate practice, who advises on both commercial and residential property matters. She is also co-head of the retail and fashion group.

Melanie is a partner and head of the real estate practice, who advises on both commercial and residential property matters. She is also co-head of the retail and fashion group.

She deals with commercial landlord and tenant work for both occupiers and investors including having dealt with pre-lets in some of London’s best known trophy buildings. She also acts on residential conveyancing matters with years of experience in high value prime central London properties, for both local and offshore clients, working closely with our private client lawyers. Much of her work is confidential in nature and she is works alongside our reputation protection team in order to maintain client privacy.

Melanie acts on behalf of well-known brands and ultra high net worth and well-known personalities in the film, theatre, sport, fashion and restaurant industries. She also acts for corporates in the media, gaming, hospitality and music industries. Many of her clients instruct her on both their personal and business real estate needs.

Melanie is recognised in the Spear’s property index, as well as the Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500 directories.