Mr Richard Sutton > Foot Anstey > Exeter, England > Lawyer Profile
Foot Anstey Offices
SENATE COURT
SOUTHERNHAY GARDENS
EXETER
EX1 1NT
England
Mr Richard Sutton

Work Department
Real Estate | Development Projects | Farms, Estates & Rural Land
Position
Richard is a consultant and works advising developers, investors and tenants on commercial property transactions. He enjoys building relationships with clients and familiarising himself with their business and objectives.
Richard has advised on a number of high profile multi-million pound projects. His personal favourite was advising on the acquisition and development of the former Berkeley Nuclear Laboratory site at Berkeley Green in Gloucestershire, by South Gloucestershire and Stroud College.
Lawyer Rankings
South West > Real estate > Commercial property: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
Foot Anstey‘s real estate team assists regional and national retailers, housebuilders, energy companies, lenders, developers and landowners with transactions, portfolio management work, and development and infrastructure mandates. With broad sector expertise, the group has seen recent growth into the space and satellite sectors. John Catchpole, who focuses on large development and infrastructure mandates, leads the team from Truro, where Rachel Langley is noted for her affordable housing and residential development work. In Exeter, Philip Brown leads the developer team, and Richard Sutton has experience acting on mixed-use developments, with Philip Parrott advising on acquisitions and disposals. The firm also has an office in Bristol which houses infrastructure, transport, and portfolio management expert Mark Li, renewable property specialist Kutahya Cherry, and Zahir Nayani, who advises on Islamic finance matters. Plymouth’s Kate Dawe is another key name. Paul Butterworth joined from Ashfords LLP in September 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
- Employment > Employment: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Commercial property: Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
- Real estate > Construction
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy and projects
- Employment > Health and safety
- Public sector > Local government
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Bristol
- Real estate > Commercial property: Bristol
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Bristol
- Employment > Employment: Bristol
- Real estate > Environment
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Social housing