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- Burges Salmon LLP - Burges Salmon LLP Burges Salmon is an ambitious, sustainable and inclusive firm that ensures its clients, people and wider communities flourish. Burges Salmon competes at the top of the legal market, providing sophisticated clients with a wide range of services, often at pivotal moments when astute legal advice and commercial insight are essential. Working side-by-side with clients, the firm shapes its thinking around their needs, focusing on the markets and areas of expertise where it has knowledge and experience to deliver the right solutions when it matters most. Advising clients ranging from large corporates and public sector bodies through to entrepreneurial businesses and private individuals, Burges Salmon is trusted to support them across the full spectrum of legal needs, from everyday matters to business-critical issues. The firm’s clients include organisations such as The John Lewis Partnership, The Financial Services Compensation Scheme, FirstGroup, HSBC Bank plc, Virgin, Costain Group, The Crown Commercial Service, Babcock International Group and Highways England. With offices in Bristol, Edinburgh, London and Dublin, Burges Salmon operates across the UK and internationally. Its lawyers are qualified to practise in all three UK legal jurisdictions—England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland—and the firm collaborates globally with a select network of like-minded independent law firms. Burges Salmon is confident in its model and its vision to be the market-leading independent UK law firm that provides the best proposition for its clients and its people. In a rapidly changing world, clients instruct Burges Salmon because the firm offers a different experience: unrivalled expertise, excellent service and exceptional value. - Culture The firm’s collaborative and cohesive culture underpins the quality of its work and client service. In 2025, Burges Salmon was named RollonFriday’s ‘Best Law Firm to Work At’ for the fourth consecutive year, with survey respondents highlighting the firm’s unique and exceptional working environment, deeply rooted in delivering an exceptional service to its clients, where values of openness, inclusivity and support are championed. - Innovation In 2024, Burges Salmon launched its multidimensional Digital Enablement Programme, bringing together and leveraging GenAI, data, processes and technology, together with internal expertise, to enhance the firm’s client service delivery offering and enable it to continuously improve and adapt for the future. The firm recognises the power of technology and the importance of keeping people at the centre of its solutions. This human-first approach saw the firm invited to speak at the prestigious Microsoft Ignite Global Conference in front of a global audience of 2.5 million people. - Diversity and Inclusion Burges Salmon cultivates an open, collaborative and inclusive culture where diversity and inclusion are integral to the firm’s strategy. It has a Diversity Taskforce working on the development of its Ethnic Diversity Action Plan, focusing on key areas such as talent attraction, development and retention. In partnership with the University of Bristol Law School, Burges Salmon also launched its Diversity Mentoring Scheme to address the underrepresentation of minority ethnic groups in the legal profession. The firm is committed to social mobility and has pioneered the introduction of legal apprenticeships with 8 solicitors qualified through the route to date. Burges Salmon is also a Disability Confident Committed employer, an accredited Living Wage Employer, and a signatory to multiple charters including the Law Society Diversity and Inclusion Charter, Bristol Equality Charter, Women in Business Charter and Race at Work Charter. - Responsible business Responsible Business is part of life at Burges Salmon and the firm constantly pushes and tests itself to be the most sustainable, diverse and inclusive firm it can be. Recognised in the 2024 Lamp House Annual Report, it collaborates with people, clients, and communities to deliver meaningful social value. The firm pursues environmental goals through continued science-based carbon reduction targets, efficiency gains and investment in high-quality carbon offsetting projects. In the past year, it invested £424,000 in communities, achieved a 52% volunteering rate, and partnered with over 60 charities. Burges Salmon also retained its Platinum ‘We invest in people’ accreditation, placing it in the top 5% of all organisations assessed by Investors in People. - Headcount Figures - Senior Partner: Ross Fairley - Managing Partner: Roger Bull - Number of Partners: 126 - Number of Other Fee-Earners: 453 - Total Staff: 1,200 - Sectors - Agriculture and estates: Tom Hewitt - Built environment: Ross Polkinghorne - Defence: Keith Beattie - Energy and utilities: James Phillips - Financial services: Martin Cook - Health, care and life sciences: Patrick Parkin - Hotels and leisure: Rupert Weston - Infrastructure: Stuart McMillan - Private wealth: Suzanna Harvey - Public sector: John Houlden - Technology: Jeremy Dickerson - Transport: Chris Simms - Services - Banking and finance: Graham Soar - Commercial and technology: Helen Scott-Lawler - Construction and engineering: Steven James - Corporate and M&A: Nick Graves - Corporate crime, investigations and inquiries: Guy Bastable - Dispute resolution: Andrew Burnette - Employment: Luke Bowery - Environment: Michael Barlow - ESG and Net Zero: Michael Barlow - Intellectual property and media: Jeremy Dickerson - Pensions and lifetime savings: Richard Knight - Planning and compulsory purchase: Gary Soloman - Private client and family law: Jim Aveline - Public procurement advisory and disputes: John Houlden - Real estate: Rick Read - Restructuring and insolvency: Emily Scaife - Tax: John Barnett
Office locations
Bristol
Bristol
Burges Salmon LLP One Glass Wharf Bristol BS2 0ZX South West
London
London
Burges Salmon LLP 6 New Street Square London EC4A 3BF
Lawyers in this office
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Keith Beattie
Partner specialising in projects and commercial contracts. Having previously worked in private practice in Hong Kong and Singapore, and as an in-house legal adviser , Keith has wide-ranging experience of projects, project finance and commercial contracts in the UK and overseas, primarily in the defence, transport, infrastructure and energy sectors. Key clients include the Ministry of Defence and Ascent Flight Training. · Projects
Kevin Kennedy
Partner advising on private client/trust and agricultural disputes. Recent cases include Sofer v Swiss Independent Trustees (breach of trust claim), James v James (proprietary estoppel, will capacity), Owen v Harris (nature of tenancy), McDonald v Rose (proprietary estoppel and family company share allotment), Earl of Plymouth v Rees (agricultural tenancy interpretation and injunction) and Abberley v Abberley (binding nature of a settlement agreement), Other cases involve partnerships, trusts and agricultural property. Joint head of the firm’s Contentious Trusts and Probate Practice. · Contentious Trusts & Probate
Lloyd James
Lloyd is a partner in the construction and engineering unit. He joined Burges Salmon in 2008 and acts for developers, funders and contractors specialising in the following areas: Construction and Engineering; Energy and Renewables; Waste Management; Water and Utilities; Transport Infrastructure; and PPP Projects. Lloyd deals with a range of contracts used in the industry and his focussed sectors (including, among others FIDIC, NEC, IChemE, MF/1 and LOGIC). Recent examples of Lloyd’s work include: advising ITER/Fusion for Energy on its multi-billion pound international nuclear fusion project in Cadarache, France; advising Highways England in connection with M25 associated works relating to the expansion of Heathrow airport; advising the Cayman Islands Government on the delivery and procurement of a new and innovative waste-to-energy scheme; advising MeyGen in connection with the construction packages for the world’s largest commercial tidal array in Pentland Firth; advising a developer in connection with a significant new nuclear build project in the UK; advising a contractor/JV on the delivery of a £1 billion+ highways project in South Wales; advising Costain as EPC Contractor on the Greater Manchester Waste PFI project. Europe’s largest waste management scheme; advising in connection with significant defence construction projects in Saudi Arabia utilising FIDIC forms of contract with bespoke amendments for the local market; advising ThyssenKrupp in connection with a number of mining projects worldwide; advising public sector authorities (including Devon, Gwynedd and Isle of Wight councils) in connection with a series of energy related PFIs/PPPs. · Construction / Engineering
Luke Bowery
Partner in the Employment unit. Advises employers and employees in both the public and private sectors on the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment law related matters including executive appointment and severance, equality and discrimination, TUPE, redundancy and restructuring and employment tribunal claims. Recent work includes advising on a number of large scale restructuring projects across multiple sites and/or jurisdictions, defending complex race and disability discrimination employment tribunal claims and providing strategic advice on Board level employment issues including responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. Regular speaker at external seminars and events across the UK. · Employment
Marcus Harling
Partner – Construction, Engineering, Procurement and Development. Provides strategic advice on all aspects of the construction of infrastructure and real estate development; including procurement and delivery of projects, and the resolution of disputes. Advises government and the private sector on the procurement and delivery of capital projects through all asset and infrastructure sectors. A particular focus on Modern Methods of Construction and new delivery structures. Marcus is a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery · Construction
Mark Paterson
Partner specialising in infrastructure projects and general commercial law. Mark acts for both the public sector and private sector. He is lead adviser for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in relation to the £31bn Dreadnought Programme and the £2bn AWACs aircraft procurement. He acted for MoD on the £10bn Astute Programme and the £4.5bn Skynet 5 satellite system. Mark acted for the Department for Transport and MoD in connection with its £6bn Search and Rescue Helicopter programme. Mark also acted for the UAE Armed Forces on its procurement of a multibillion-dollar military satellite system as well as multi-billion dollar infrastructure projects in the KSA for a European based defence company. Mark also led the team advising the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on their multi-billion pound Dounreay and Magnox civil nuclear reactor decommissioning programmes. · Infrastructure
Mark Shepherd
Heads the firm’s Private Equity team. Advises institutions, management teams and investee companies on UK and cross-border buy-outs, buy-ins, growth capital transactions, re-financings and exits. Also advises on mergers and acquisitions, fundraisings and joint ventures as well as general corporate advice. · Private Equity
Matthew Kaltsas-Walker
Partner – Financial Services, Regulatory Investigations, Corporate and Commercial Disputes, Insurance Recent experience includes conducting internal investigations for large organisations in relation to compliance if FCA regulatory requirements. Advising leading accountancy firms on FRC Investigations under the AEP and Accountancy Scheme. Advising corporates on disputed insurance claims in the financial services, healthcare and construction sectors. Advising corporates on a range of contractual and financial disputes. · Financial Services
Matthew Ramus
Partner specialising in public sector outsourcing, alternative delivery models and infrastructure projects for both the public and private sectors. In particular, Matthew has led on a number of major projects in the defence, central government, local government, emergency services and education sectors. · Public Sector
Matthew Sims
Heads the firm’s retail team and specialises in UK real estate investment, development and portfolio management work including acquisitions and disposals, development projects and landlord and tenant work. Matt has a strong track record in acting for clients in the retail, office, hotels and industrial markets. · Real Estate