Burges Salmon LLP

AJ Venter

AJ is a partner in the Corporate and M&A team. His practice covers a broad range of UK and cross-border corporate transactions, including private M&A, public takeovers, IPOs, equity fundraisings, joint ventures, complex corporate reorganisations and restructurings and general corporate advisory matters. He acts for a number of quoted and private companies, financial intermediaries and other clients and advises clients across several sectors with a particular focus on financial services. · Corporate / M&A

Adrian Martin

Partner specialising in employment law and head of the employment law team. Advises on all areas of employment law, both contentious and non-contentious, including executive severance, restructuring, trade union and collective issues, TUPE, complex discrimination cases and Employment Tribunal and High Court litigation (including conducting tribunal advocacy). Has particular experience of advising on the employment and TUPE aspects of major procurements and outsourcing projects in both the public and private sector. · Employment

Alastair Morrison

Partner responsible for non-contentious rural property; sale, purchase, lease and mortgage of farms and estates is the mainstay of the unit, which comprises ten specialist agricultural property lawyers. Advises on law relating to ownership and occupation of land, e.g. secured lending, tenancies, contracting agreements, development clawback, sporting rights and rural grants and subsidies. · Real Estate

Alice Honeywill

Specialises in pensions law and advises trustees and employers on all aspects of pension scheme operation and governance, as well as drafting pension scheme documents. Advises on bulk annuity purchases, liability management exercises and regulatory matters, as well as technical issues and pensions tax. Advises on SIPP and SSAS matters. Clients include Western Power Distribution and the Trustees of the QinetiQ, University of Oxford, and Inchcape Motors pension schemes. · Pensions

Alison Hawes

Consultant in Family law, all financial issues with particular niche in complex assets and businesses including farms, landed estates and corporate valuations. Experienced in asset protection for families and family businesses – pre and post marital agreements. · Family

Andrew Burnette

Dispute resolution partner specialising in complex fraud and professional negligence, shareholder/unfair prejudice disputes, contractual/warranty claims and product liability. Particular expertise acting for both traditional and specialist lenders to recover distressed loans secured against commercial property. · Dispute Resolution

Andrew Dunlop

Leads Burges Salmon’s Outsourcing Group and also head of the firm’s GDPR practice. Has significant experience in joint ventures, system builds and cyber security. International director of the National Outsourcing Association 1998-2012. Currently a member of the Executive Council of The Global Sourcing Association. Clients include corporates, financial institutions and larger techcos. · Outsourcing

Andrew Mills

Partner in Corporate Finance team, specialising in private equity transactions, corporate mergers and acquisitions and company law. Experience includes private equity, infrastructure and general corporate transactions, including competitive auction sales, GP-led portfolio sales and investments into GPs, co-investments, joint ventures and equity fundraising. · Corporate / M&A

Ann Metherall

Head of the firm's Dispute Resolution unit. Specialises in strategic health and safety and risk management, liability claims and commercial disputes. At the heart of Ann’s work is support to clients in infrastructure businesses; in particular the transport, construction, energy and industrial sectors. · Dispute Resolution

Brioney Thomas

Brioney is a partner and Head of the firm's Transport sector. She has extensive experience advising on franchise bidding and operations, UK and EU regulatory issues and major projects including fleet procurements and rail infrastructure. Her specialist rail expertise include advising government departments, UK and international transport owner groups and their operating companies as well as major international stock manufactures. · Transport

Briony Barber

Briony is a senior associate within Burges Salmon's Corporate Finance team. · Corporate / M&A

Camilla Usher-Clark

Camilla’s practice covers M&A, joint ventures, private equity, restructurings and general corporate law. She also has a specialism in co-operative and community benefit society law and community interest companies. Camilla leads the firm’s award-winning corporate Energy team and her work has a strong focus in this area (particularly clean energy), giving her a much deeper understanding of the issues facing businesses operating in the sector. · Corporate / M&A

Caroline Brown

Caroline is a Partner in our Dispute Resolution team with many years' experience in advising on high profile, high value commercial disputes. She specialises in professional negligence claims, particularly on behalf of lenders against surveyors and solicitors; banking and finance disputes; and complex contractual claims. She has extensive experience in advising financial institutions, including traditional and specialist lenders; and regularly advises on cross-border issues. Caroline has a particular focus on the strategic management of multi-claims litigation, having advised both claimants and defendants in dealing with portfolios of high value, linked claims. High profile contract claims: Leading a very high value (£hundreds of millions) portfolio of high profile contract claims concerning the supply of goods, including advice on contract interpretation, misrepresentation and insolvency. Reputation-critical claims: Managing and advising on the defence of a £multi million portfolio of reputation-critical claims in misrepresentation and contract. International financial services business: Advising on the recovery of funds held with a fintech provider, including advice on contentious insolvency and fraud issues. Advising a lender in respect of a very high value group of negligence claims against a leading valuer. Private bank: Advising on complex, sensitive fraud and insolvency issues. · Dispute Resolution

Ceri Barrett

Senior Associate · Corporate / M&A

Chris Godfrey

Corporate and funds partner; head of the firm's Corporate and Financial Institutions department, handling a full range of public and private company transactional work together with investment funds and partnership law. Has handled more than 30 IPOs and has a diverse client base including Virgin Management, the University of Oxford, Renishaw and Premier Miton Group. · Corporate / M&A

Chris Jackson

Chris is the firm's Head of Infrastructure and a Partner in the Transport team. He is recognised as a leading lawyer with a track record of success in complex commercial and regulatory projects and disputes. He has national recognition in three areas - the transport industry, public procurement (including complex procurement challenges for both authorities and bidders) - and health and safety. He has been closely involved in policy, strategic and operational work (and in developing the firm's strong specialist practices) in each of these areas. He also oversees a number of projects relating to intelligent transport systems, transport technology and Connected and Autonomous Mobility. · Infrastructure

Chris Preston

Partner specialising in Real Estate Litigation and Risk Management. Advises clients across all sectors on contentious real estate issues with a focus on development projects, transport, retail and telecoms. Clients include St Modwen, The John Lewis Partnership, Severn Trent Water, Pennon Group, The Crown Estate, Greater London Authority, YTL and Transport for London. · Real Estate

Chris Seaton

The firm's Senior Partner and also a partner in the Employment team dealing with the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment work; experienced tribunal advocate and adviser to a number of multinational companies based in the USA and Europe. He was formerly chair of the firm’s international committee and a member of the strategic Board. Now as Senior Partner he chair’s the firm’s Board. · Employment

Chris Simms

Chris is a partner in the firm’s rail team. He has substantial experience in complex rail projects, including franchise bidding and operations. Chris also works extensively in asset finance projects in the rail sector, having acted for operators, rolling stock owners and government authorities on rolling stock procurement and other privately-financed rail projects. · Transport

Chris Worrall

Chris Worrall is a partner and head of the competition team at Burges Salmon. Chris has worked on numerous high profile antitrust matters and specialises in all aspects of UK and EU competition law, including antitrust investigations, cartels, abuse of market power, and merger control. Chris has extensive experience across a range of sectors, including financial services, media, transport, healthcare and retail. · Competition

Claire Withers

Claire is a senior associate specialising in equity incentive arrangements, reward structures and corporate tax. She advises on employee and management incentive arrangements, including design, implementation and any transaction-related implications. She also advises on a broad range of transactional and advisory tax matters, with particular emphasis on real estate, mergers and acquisitions and employment related tax. Claire is a chartered tax adviser and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Association of Tax Technicians and Share Plan Lawyers Group. She sits on the committee of the Edinburgh branch of Women in Tax. · Tax

Clive Pugh

Advises trustees and employers on all aspects of pensions law and is recognised as a leading expert nationally on regulatory matters including scheme funding, clearance and governance and major Moral Hazard investigations. He draws on experience at and with the Pensions Regulator and has advised on a number of complex restructurings for schemes and employers, bringing regulatory insights. Also regarded as an expert in ongoing pensions advisory work and negotiations, including on benefit redesign, closures and corporate developments. Advised on the key regulatory cases of Silentnight, Bernard Matthews and also appointed for the reply on McDonalds · Pensions

Colin Ligman

Specialist in real estate aspects of investment, development and rail infrastructure funding projects. Acts for Transports for Wales and Abellio group companies on property related matters involving rail infrastructure projects. Acts for senior debt lenders on development finance and investment finance for commercial real estate. Also acts for lenders, fixed charge receivers and administrators on distressed situations as head of the Burges Salmon Real Estate Insolvency Team. Many years’ experience both in structuring and securing loan facilities, and also acting on fixed charge receiverships and administrations involving the sale of significant commercial property assets, such as investment properties, partially completed development sites and nursing homes. · Real Estate

Danny Lee

Danny is a partner in the firm’s corporate finance team, having joined Burges Salmon’s new Scottish office in 2019. Danny specialises in corporate finance and company law, including M&A, joint ventures, private equity and restructurings. Danny covers a range of sectors, but with a particular focus on the energy sector (notably renewables), food and drink, technology and life sciences/pharma sectors. Recent experience includes: advising Panoramic Growth Equity on its investment in Big Drop Brewing Company; advising Fern Fibre Limited and Octopus Investments on the acquisition of internet service provider M12 Solutions and the Giganet brand together with a £250m funding package; advising Riverstone on the sale of Forsa Energy’s distributed flexible power generation platform to Tiger Infrastructure Partners; advising Calcivis on its equity investment by SIB and Archangels; advising Genus plc on its strategic investment in genetics improvement consultancy, Xelect. · Corporate / M&A

David Hall

Head of Burges Salmon’s Disputes, Planning & Construction Department. Over a 30 year career David has represented numerous major public and private institutions on a wide range of disputes, investigations and inquiries. Currently Lead Solicitor on Burges Salmon’s appointment to provide all legal services to the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry chaired by Baroness Hallett. David is also playing a similar role in other confidential Public Inquiries to which Burges Salmon is appointed. · Dispute Resolution

Dominic Davis

Dominic is a partner in the firm's Corporate Finance team. His practice covers all areas of corporate finance work but he specialises in complex M&A transactions and joint ventures. He regularly advises both quoted companies and their financial advisers on a full range of equity transactions including IPOs and secondary fundraisings. His practice also includes advising on company law and corporate governance issues. He works for a range of private and public companies on both UK and cross-border deals and regularly advises overseas investors investing, or acquiring assets, in the UK. Dominic is a member of the firm’s US committee. Recent transactions include (i) advising the shareholders of FlightScope on the sale of the software company to IMG, (ii) advising the founder shareholders on the sale of specialist education provider LexAble to Norwegian company Lingit AS, (iii) advising WH Ireland on the AIM flotation of Northcoders Group plc and (iv) advising the founder shareholder of Keep IT Simple on the sale of the company to The Panoply Group PLC. · Corporate / M&A

Eilidh Wood

Eilidh is a senior associate in the firm’s Employment team, based in Edinburgh, having joined the firm in 2021. She advises on both contentious and non-contentious employment law issues covering the full lifecycle of the employment relationship, as well as regularly providing employment expertise in connection with corporate and real estate transactions and matters relating to TUPE. She has particular experience in conducting employment tribunal litigation in both Scotland and England, including in relation to complex discrimination and whistle blowing claims, as well as equal pay claims. Eilidh’s experience includes conducting advocacy at all stages of Tribunal proceedings. · Employment

Elizabeth Dunn

Advises on all aspects of planning law including major infrastructure, highways and compulsory purchase. Particular expertise in energy and infrastructure, and large scale re-development projects. Has led and advised on a number of nationally significant infrastructure projects. Regularly advises on judicial review and statutory challenges and appears as an inquiry advocate. · Planning

Emily Roberts

Dispute resolution partner at Burges Salmon LLP specialising in Intellectual Property. Advises on disputes relating to trade marks, passing off, copyright, designs, breach of confidence, domain name and company name disputes, social media and internet issues, licence disputes and advertising standards complaints. Main clients include Starbucks and Virgin. · Intellectual Property

Emily Scaife

Emily is a finance lawyer with a particular focus on complex corporate restructuring and insolvency matters in the private and public sectors. She acts for key stakeholders including investors, companies, management teams, insolvency practitioners, regulators and pension trustees on both domestic and cross border matters. · Restructuring & Insolvency

Emma Folkes

Partner working within the firm's Food and Farming team and specialising in non-contentious agricultural property matters. Acts on a wide variety of transactional matters including sales and purchases and the grant of tenancies, and advises on a wide range of issues arising from the ongoing management of farms and estates. Client base is UK-wide and includes landowners, farmers, national institutions and charities. Recent examples of work: acting on the sale, in parts, of a significant estate comprising let farms, in-hand woodland and cottages. Acting on the sale of a portfolio of rural cottages. Documenting the division of a family farm following the settlement of a complex farming partnership dispute. Working with an institutional landowner on the restructure of agricultural tenancy arrangements. Acting on the acquisition of strategic land subject to complex overage obligations relating to future development. · Real Estate

Euan Bremner

Member of the firm’s Strategic Board. A real estate lawyer by trade qualified in all three UK jurisdictions (England/Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) acting for developers, investors and funders of UK energy and infrastructure projects (including onshore and offshore wind, wave/tidal, solar/PV, hydro, anaerobic digestion, energy from waste, deep geothermal, battery storage, sustainable aviation fuel, green lithium, EV charging and hydrogen projects). · Real Estate

Fay Lamb

Fay is an experienced senior associate in the Real Estate team, based in the firm’s Edinburgh office. She acts in broad a range of real estate matters, including acquisitions and disposals, landlord and tenant, development and portfolio financing. Fay is qualified to practice in Scotland. · Real Estate

Gary Delderfield

Partner · Pensions

Gary Soloman

Partner and head of Burges Salmon's planning and compulsory purchase team. Recent/current matters: acting for Isle of Anglesey County Council in relation to the proposed new nuclear power station at Wylfa, including promoting a CPO for significant highway improvements. Advising on a number of town and city centre regeneration schemes and acting for the Canal and River Trust and the Environment Agency in promoting CPOs to deliver European funded environmental works along the River Severn. Gary also recently assisted Redrow Homes secure permission for a 7,000 home garden village at Plasdwr, North-West Cardiff. · Planning

Graham Soar

Partner in the Banking and Finance group. Advises clients including financial institutions, corporates and funds in relation to a broad range of finance transactions. Specialises in energy and infrastructure finance, corporate banking, real estate banking and derivatives. · Banking & Finance

Gregor Hayworth

Gregor has specialised in advising and representing energy market participants in respect of dispute avoidance and dispute resolution for around 10 years, and is a member of the leadership team for our UK-wide energy disputes practice. He advises on major domestic and international energy projects, both onshore and offshore, with a focus on renewable energy projects. Gregor has a keen interest in risk advisory work, advising clients on dispute avoidance during the life-cycle of major projects. He has significant experience in the Scottish Courts, and in the High Court in England & Wales. He has also represented clients in arbitration, including ad hoc, ICC, LCIA and LMAA proceedings, and in adjudication, expert determination and mediation. Gregor also teaches at the University of Edinburgh Law School. · Energy (Excluding Oil & Gas)

Guy Bastable

Financial Crime; POCA Work & Asset Forfeiture; Health & Safety; Administrative & Public Law; Environment. Regulatory investigations; corporate crime; financial crime; Coroner’s inquests; public inquiries. Corporate manslaughter; health and safety; fire safety; food safety; environmental protection; consumer protection and trading standards. Serious fraud; tax fraud; money laundering; bribery and corruption; insider dealing and market abuse. AML/ABC compliance; recovery of the proceeds of crime (restraint; confiscation; cash seizure; unexplained wealth; civil recovery); judicial review of the actions of investigators. Crisis management; corporate and director liability; corporate internal investigations; corporate engagement with regulators; responding to complex investigations and prosecutions. · Financial Crime

Helen Scott-Lawler

Partner and head of Commercial Group, specialising in intellectual property and commercial contracts. Work includes: agency & distribution, commercial, joint ventures technology transfer; R&D arrangements; IP licensing and merchandising; IP audits and strategy; brand and design protection; procurements and bespoke development of technology; media rights exploitation. · Intellectual Property

Helen Woodford

Helen joined the Burges Salmon's Pensions and Lifetime Savings team in 2023, advising clients across the UK from the firm’s Edinburgh office and her Northumberland home base. She has specialised in pensions law since qualification over two decades ago. Helen recognises pensions issues are complex and constantly evolving, she strives to advise her clients with clarity, in a manner tailored to their specific situation and requirements. Clients with whom Helen has built longstanding relationships range from employers and pension trustee boards of global corporations with large ongoing defined benefit pension schemes to smaller entities with open or closed defined benefit arrangements and defined contribution occupational schemes or insurer provided pension plans. Helen’s client base has straddled many sectors including energy, manufacturing, retail and transport. She has also acted for many pension trustee boards and employers operating within the charity and not-for-profit sector. She is a full member of the Association of Pensions Lawyers and a member of the Pensions Ombudsman’s Legal Forum. · Pensions

Ian Carnochan

Ian Carnochan is a partner in the tax team and leads the Corporate Tax practice at Burges Salmon. He advises on all areas of corporate, real estate and commercial tax, with clients including corporate groups, financial institutions and investors, pension funds and public sector bodies. He has considerable experience advising on mergers and acquisitions and investment transactions, as well as on real estate development transactions, financing arrangements and funds. Ian is a member of the Law Society's Corporation Tax Sub Committee and Stamp Taxes Working Group. He is also a member of the Stamp Taxes Practitioners Group. · Tax

Ian Salter

Partner, head of Nuclear Law unit; advises on all aspects of nuclear energy projects with particular expertise in nuclear law. Head of Projects Department. · Nuclear Energy

Ian Truman

Ian is a Partner in the Nuclear Team at Burges Salmon. Following his time as Deputy General Counsel for EDF Energy’s nuclear new build business in the UK between 2010 - 2015 working on the Hinkley Point C, Sizewell C and Bradwell B new nuclear projects, he is one of the few private practice lawyers in the UK with experience in developing a new nuclear power station under the current UK regulatory regime. Since returning to private practice he has worked on a number of high profile nuclear new build and other nuclear projects both in the UK and internationally including a number of international SMR projects. Ian advises sponsors, developers, technology vendors, operators, regulators, nuclear insurers, government departments, funders and contractors on all aspects of UK, European and international nuclear law. Ian's expertise includes advising on: - Nuclear regulatory frameworks in the UK and emerging nuclear countries, including providing nuclear law training and drafting nuclear legislation; - The legal aspects of Safety, Security, Safeguards and Liability - including nuclear third party liability insurance; - The licensing of nuclear installations - including the licensing of nuclear fusion and small modular reactors in the UK and abroad; - Nuclear fuel supply; - Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel management and disposal; - The transport of nuclear and radioactive materials; - Export controls; - The requirements of the Euratom Treaty and its associated Directives and Regulations; - Project arrangements for the deployment of small and advanced modular reactors; and - Nuclear Co-operation Agreements between states Ian is also a joint editor of the Third Edition of Burges Salmon's Text Book on Nuclear Law (please e-mail for a free copy). · Nuclear

Ian Tucker

A specialist in rail and wider transport law and regulation and a dispute resolution lawyer with extensive experience in commercial litigation, public procurement and alternative dispute resolution. A solicitor advocate with oral advocacy experience in arbitrations, adjudication, regulatory appeal hearings and court. Working regularly for corporates in the transport and energy sectors particularly on regulatory compliance, issues in contractual delivery and litigation. Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales. · Transport / Rail

Jacqueline Cook

Jacqueline acts for a wide range of clients on contentious and non-contentious planning law matters. She has experience in all UK jurisdictions and routinely advises on consenting strategy, statutory and commercial contracts, appeals and judicial review. Her work includes energy infrastructure, residential and commercial development, landmark retail, leisure and mixed-use developments and specialist aspects of planning, such as heritage assets and environmental impact assessment. Jacqueline is ranked in Chambers and the Legal 500 directories. She is Vice-Chair of the Scottish Property Federation’s Planning & Development Committee (part of the British Property Federation) and regularly contributes to “Scottish Planning & Environmental Law” (the planning law journal of record in Scotland). · Planning & Environment

James Green

Partner · Employment

James Phillips

Head of the Energy & Utilities Sector at Burges Salmon. Leading dual-qualified energy law expert. Provides regulatory and commercial legal advice to developers, funders, licensees and regulators across the energy sector. Very active in the renewable energy, energy storage and balancing services markets. · Energy & Utilities

James Sutherland

Head of Burges Salmon’s Real Estate Disputes team Main Areas of Practice: All areas of landlord/tenant disputes, with a particular focus on lease break, vacant possession and terminal dilapidations. Commercial Rent Review. Property related insolvency disputes. · Real Estate

Jennifer Mellor

Jennifer is a director in the funds and financial regulation team. She has worked both in private practice and in-house at financial institutions, including as Head of Legal. She has considerable experience advising clients across the funds and financial services sector, including asset managers, financial institutions, investment funds, pension schemes (both public and private sector) and family offices. Jennifer specialises in investment funds, the use of limited partnerships and limited liability partnerships in corporate structures and financial services regulatory work, with a particular focus on private funds. She regularly advises on the establishment and operation of, and investment in, alternative investment funds across different asset classes (including private equity, infrastructure, and forestry) together with the regulatory aspects of such transactions. · Investment Funds

Jeremy Bell

Head of the Private Equity Funds practice at Burges Salmon LLP. We focus on the structuring, formation and winding up of alternative asset funds, including carried interest arrangements and establishing manager vehicles. Clients include Braavos Capital, DeaconCapital, Hamilton Hotel Investors, Nippon Life, Praesidium, True Altitude and Wales Pension Partnerhip. We also advise a number of pension funds on their substantial investments into private equity, debt or real estate funds. · Funds & Asset Management

Jeremy Dickerson

Partner in dispute resolution department and head of the firm's IP group. Main clients include Victoria's Secret, Harrods, Virgin, Starbucks, BBC and Discovery Channel. Guest lecturer in passing off on the Oxford University IP Diploma. · Intellectual Property

Jim Aveline

Partner and head of the firm's Private Client Services department. Specialises in tax and estate planning for both UK and offshore clients. This includes advising landed estates and diversified farm businesses on their various tax, trust and agricultural issues. He also has a particular focus on succession planning and structuring for family business owners and heads up Burges Salmon’s Family Business team. His international work includes advising resident and non-resident clients on their global trust and wealth structuring and advising on structures to pass their wealth on to the next generation. Recent examples of work include: advising an international family with £300m+ assets on their offshore structures, innovative partnership and trust structuring to claim CGT relief on a record breaking agricultural land sale; advising the trustees of a significant landed estate following the death of its main heir; drafting and advising on a Family Charter to set out the principles of how control and ownership will pass in a large diversified family business to give certainty to the next generation. Winner of STEP President’s prize for best thesis on international issues. · Private Wealth

Joanne Attwood

Heads up Burges Salmon's Licensing practice. Advises clients on all issues arising under the Licensing Act 2003 and Gambling Act 2005 as well as a number of other licensing regimes including applications, variations, reviews, contractual drafting and general regulatory compliance issues. Also advises clients on the commercial aspects of event organisation. Clients come from a variety of industry sectors including leisure and tourism, charities, education, transport, retail and real estate development as well as smaller independent operators and private individuals. Work highlights include advising on licensing issues for a globally recognised event, advising on the management of a multi-million pound licensed property portfolio and advising on licensing issues connected with a major group company restructure. · Licensing

John Barnett

Head of Private Client Services department. Provides a full range of tax advice to individual and corporate clients. Including advice to private banks, trust companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and owner managers on personal and business tax. Work also encompasses tax advice on corporate and business structures; advice on offshore structures and advice on offshore and onshore trusts. Experience also includes: tax litigation/investigations; advocacy before Tax Tribunal; EIS work; non-domiciliaries and UK land; international corporate work including advice to a number of clients on international holding company structures, coupled with personal advice on trust and tax planning; corporate restructuring advice on a number of significant transactions; and the taxation of development land, including general advice to landowners. · Tax

John Houlden

Advises on procurement, subsidy control/state aid, projects, competition and regulatory issues on a number of major projects. Clients include the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Eurostar, FirstGroup, the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Ofcom, Affinity Water, Department for Education, Environment Agency, United Kingdom Research and Innovation, Babcock, Ministry of Justice, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and UK Atomic Energy Authority. · Procurement

Jonathan Eves

Partner in the corporate finance team with a particular focus on corporate finance transactions in the energy and healthcare sectors. Details of significant deals: acting for various developers, funders and institutional investors on investment in, and the acquisition and disposal of, renewable energy projects and portfolios across a range of technologies; advising Bluefield Solar on the acquisition of and financing of a portfolio of 15 operational solar PV plants with an aggregate capacity of 64.2MWp; advising GCP Infrastructure Investments (Gravis) in relation to the acquisition of a 70MWp portfolio of five operating wind farms from funds managed by Platina Energy Partners; advising Statkraft UK Ltd on its acquisition of UK onshore wind developer Airvolution Clean Energy Ltd. · Corporate / M&A

Julian Boswall

Advises on planning, highways and compulsory purchase. Particular experience in transport, regeneration, energy and waste. Market leading NSIP experience, advising on numerous projects throughout the process, into construction and operation. · Planning

Justin Briggs

Specialist in Pension and Private Trusts Disputes and Head of the Pensions Disputes team. · Pensions

Katie Allen

Partner in the Banking and Finance group and head of hotel finance. Katie acts for a range of clients including banks, funds and corporates on finance transactions within the real estate and hotels sectors. Clients include Lloyds Bank, HSBC, ICG, DRC Capital, MetLife and Coutts. · Banking & Finance

Katie Carter

Katie is a senior associate in the firm’s Corporate and M&A team having joined the firm in 2020. She represents corporate and institutional clients, as well as partnerships and private individuals, across a broad range of transactional real estate services. She has experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, venture capital and corporate restructuring. Katie has acted for companies, entrepreneurs, investors and management teams across a broad range of industry sectors (locally, nationally and internationally). Katie’s work has had particular focus on life sciences, technology and renewable energy sectors. She also provides advice and support to clients on various corporate and commercial matters including corporate governance, company law and commercial contracts. She has undertaken a two year secondment at SIMEC Atlantis Energy (SAE), a leading sustainable energy company, during which time she was the primary legal advisor for the SAE group. · Corporate / M&A