Barrister with partner equivalent status at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. Specialises in consumer finance. Advises a wide range of clients on regulatory compliance with the Consumer Credit Act, FSA regulation for banks and mortgage lenders, the Payment Services Directive and consumer protection. Also has extensive experience supporting due diligence on M&A and securitisation transactions. Formerly practised as a barrister with Fred Philpott’s Chambers and spent two and a half years as a senior legal advisor at the Office of Fair Trading, advising on consumer law and consumer credit. Regular speaker at conferences and is ranked as one of the best in the UK in the current edition of ‘Chambers’ Client Guide of the UK Legal Profession’. Clients include Lloyds Banking Group, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays Bank and Capital One. Co-author ‘Food Standards: the New Law’ (Jordans 2000).
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Head of Burges Salmon's cross-departmental Real Estate Sector Group, having led the firm's Real Estate department for five years between 2009 and 2014. Richard advises investors, developers and occupiers with a particular focus on the office, industrial and logistics, and retail sectors, leading teams undertaking portfolio asset management work and acting on major transactional property investment acquisitions and disposals. Richard also specialises in major mixed use and residential led development and regeneration projects.