Keystone Law’s property partners Ian Cooke, Sakhjit Randhawa, Hugh Murphy, James Bunker, John Downing, and Jason Roston have been named in Spear’s 500 Property Law Index 2025. The index ranks the best property lawyers for senior executives, wealth managers and family offices.

Ian Cooke and Sakhjit Randhawa were both ranked as ‘Top Flight’, making Keystone the only law firm to have two lawyers awarded the prestigious accolade.

The esteemed annual guide selects the UK’s top property advisers from peer nominations, client feedback, interviews, and data supplied by firms, as well as information gathered by the Spear’s editorial and research teams.

Ian Cooke

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Ian provides legal advice to UHNWs buying and selling luxury London houses and apartments. This has been the core of his practice and the reason he travels extensively around the world in support of his clients.

Transactions are high value, confidential, technically complex but often urgent. The best property always commands intense interest and competition from wealthy international buyers as it has a scarcity value. This complicated work has to be navigated correctly, to a challenging timetable, in order to deliver a successful outcome to the client.

Read Ian’s Spear’s profile here.

Sakhjit Randhawa

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Sakhjit provides residential property law advice to clients – UHNW and other wealthy individuals, trusts and companies buying and selling prime, super prime and luxury properties in London and the English countryside. This role naturally requires her to travel extensively to maintain and build her relationships.

She has run and built the practice jointly with her business partner Ian Cooke. Two world-class partners at this level with extensive expertise enables them to provide, with their team, a stellar service to clients who often have complex and time-sensitive deals.

Read Sakhjit’s Spear’s profile here.

Hugh Murphy

Hugh specialises in acting for clients on a wide range of private client-related property matters. He acts for private individuals, plus landed estates and institutional clients, in relation to all aspects of property law, and has particular expertise in guiding clients through the process of both buying and selling country houses, London property, sporting estates, farms, and agricultural land.

Read Hugh’s Spear’s profile here.

James Bunker

James is an experienced property lawyer who advises on high-value property transactions. He is an expert on the prime and super-prime London residential markets, frequently deals with highly complex and high-profile cases.

His client base client base includes high-net-worth individuals from the UK, Central Europe, the US, Canada, and the Middle East.

Read James’ Spear’s profile here.

John Downing

John’s practice has been focused on the prime central London property market for more than 25 years, acquiring and selling high-value residential property for a clientele including high-profile individuals from both the City and the entertainment industry.

The seasoned solicitor is well known within the sector for having a pragmatic and clear approach to complex issues.

Read John’s Spear’s profile here.

Jason Roston

Jason is a property lawyer with a focus on residential real estate. His clients include a broad range of domestic and international individuals and family offices together with developers and private banks who he advises on all aspects of buying, managing, financing and selling residential property.

Read Jason’s Spear’s profile here.

Spear’s is the leading wealth management publication for high-net-worth individuals. To view the full Spear’s Property Law Index 2025, please click here.

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