Freeths LLP

Real estate.

Partner in real estate development, dealing primarily with commercial property development and property finance for a range of developers, financial and educational institutions end users and public sector bodies and advising in relation to distressed property transactions. Notable transactions this year have included: advising Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in relation to a highly complex development agreement relating to an extension to the Touchwood Shopping Centre; advising a developer in relation to the purchase of a 200 acre estate from an administrator; advising Loughborough University in relation to a complex deal to take place at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.

Trained Trowers and Hamlins 1980-82; Branson Bramley, Sheffield 1982-86; partner Branson Bramley, Sheffield 1984; group legal adviser Brosely Estates Ltd 1986-88; Paisner and Co, London 1988-95; senior associate Freeths LLP 1998; partner 2001.

Mexborough Grammar School, South Yorkshire; Reading University (LLB (Hons)).

Golf, running, most sports, theatre and family, member of Notts Golf Club.