Fieldfisher

Real Estate

Partner, Head of Real Estate

Antony is head of the Real Estate practice at Fieldfisher and was a member of the firm's Executive Committee between 2010 and 2018. He also heads the Property Litigation team at Fieldfisher.

Antony deal exclusively with contentious (and potentially contentious) issues relating to commercial, mixed use and residential property. This includes dilapidations claims, rent reviews and other landlord and tenant disputes, real property disputes (including covenants, easements and ownership issues), development issues (including rights of light, party walls and boundaries), contentious planning disputes, property-related insolvency issues and secured lending disputes.

He has acted in relation to some of the most significant projects in the market, including the Potters Field site (next to Tower Bridge in London) and a number of leading property cases (including Pennyfeathers Limited –v- Pennyfeathers Property Company Limited and others, which related to a large development site on the Isle of Wight).

Antony's particular specialism is helping developers, occupiers and investors unlock value – litigation being a means to an end, rather than an end in itself.

In keeping with his approach to contentious property matters, the bulk of his work is either dispute avoidance or, if issues do arise, negotiating the best deal for his clients.

As a Solicitor Advocate (with rights of audience in all courts on commercial matters),He is an accomplished litigator and advocate in the courts and arbitral forums. He is also an Associate of the Institute of Arbitrators and a trained CEDR representative in mediations.

Antony is a past Chairman of the Property Litigation Association and the first Chairman of the Dilapidations Forum of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). He has also sat on the RICS Boundaries and Party Walls Working Group.