Farrer & Co

Commercial property.

Charlie has over 30 years’ experience of advising on commercial property investment development and asset management. Clients include owner-managed property companies, international trustees/private offices and prominent UK institutions including charities and livery companies. Charlie’s practice particularly covers equity-share investment leases in the City/West End, community developments and capital projects for charities and institutions. Recent experience includes: leading the team for an international investor’s private office in the acquisition of a portfolio of commercial and residential properties (prime and secondary) in excess of £200m; acting for the Duchy of Cornwall on the Poundbury and Nansledan development; advising The British Library on its St Pancras Transformed project and advising in relation to the development of a Bishopsgate Tower in the city and the promotion of a leading University Biomedical campus. Charlie has contributed material to the Estates Gazette, The Princes' Foundation, Policy Exchange, The Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission and RIBA. Charlie lectures regularly on aspects of property law, including presentations on investment and development in the Channel Islands, Switzerland and Hong Kong.

Farrer & Co: Qualified 1985, Partner 1990.

The Queen’s College, Oxford (MA); The College of Law, Guildford (Honours).