Pinsent Masons LLP

Andrew McMillan

Andrew is a corporate partner and was, previously, global head of the technology, media and telecommunications sector practice of another international firm. Andrew has considerable experience advising trade players, investment banks and private equity houses on transformative mergers and acquisitions and high-value commercial contracts within the TMT sector and has been recommended by various legal directories, including Legal 500, Chambers, Who’s Who Legal (Telecoms and Media) and Super Lawyers, both for his sector expertise and execution capability.

David Taylor

David is a Senior Consultant with some 35 years experience in all aspects of Real Estate law.David has advised many of the UK leading property investors and developers including British Land and the Prudential, international investors such as Macquarie and land owners and end users including National Grid, Cisco and Burberry. David represents both public and private sector entities involved with Real Estate and has advised numerous local authorities and government departments.

Gareth Jones

Partner. Gareth is a corporate finance lawyer specialising in equity capital markets and mergers and acquisitions. He advises a wide variety of international and UK issuers and investment banks across a variety of sectors including gambling, financial services, real estate and natural resources. Gareth has experience of a broad range of corporate finance transactions of varying complexity including IPO's and secondary offerings (both on the Official List and AIM), mergers and acquisitions and public takeovers, as well as advising on ongoing obligations of listed companies.

Guy Lougher

Guy is a partner in the EU and competition law group at Pinsent Masons. He has particular experience of advising clients in the food, automotive, pharmaceutical, chemical, utilities and oil industries. He has worked on competition investigations by the European Commission and UK sector regulators, including attending dawn raids. In this context he has advised clients on fining and leniency procedures and making leniency applications. Guy has handled merger clearances before the European Commission and the OFT/Competition Commission in the UK. He has undertaken competition law audits and has also designed and implemented competition compliance and training programmes for many clients

Iain Gilbey

Iain is a Partner and leads our Planning Environment Energy and Infrastructure consenting practice. Iain focuses exclusively on planning and related environmental law matters. Iain advises a range of private and public sector organisations on all aspects of planning law, including: strategy setting, policy promotion, environmental impact and strategic environmental impact assessment, major projects, infrastructure agreements and planning obligations, judicial review and statutory challenges, enforcement proceedings and project managing major public inquiries. Recent projects have included: major residential led and mixed use regeneration schemes, urban extension and greenfield development proposals, garden city proposals, new stadia and sporting developments, retail and leisure development, and infrastructure projects.

James Cameron

Partner

Jamie Lockerbie

Jamie is a planning law specialist and advises clients in both the public and private sectors on the full remit of planning and highways matters.Jamie has worked on some of the UK’s largest and most complex urban regeneration schemes and acts for clients who are involved with development projects in a variety of sectors include housing, mixed use, commercial and sport and leisure. Examples of the areas of planning law on which Jamie regularly advises include planning and highways agreements, planning policy (including neighbourhood planning), environmental impact assessment, green belt, community infrastructure levy and contentious planning maters including judicial reviews, statutory challenges, appeals and enforcement.

Jean-François Le Gal

Partner

Jon Harris

Jon is a partner who specialises in advising public and private companies, entrepreneurs and investment banks on public takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, disposals, reverse takeovers, joint ventures, corporate restructurings and reorganisations, IPOs and secondary issues (including rights issues, placings and open offers). Independently recognised for his responsiveness, thoroughness and firm technical grasp, in the last two years Jon has advised on UK and multi-jurisdictional transactions worth over £1 billion. He is a regular speaker on public takeovers.Jon is also a member of the Legal 500 Hall of Fame for Flotations: Small and Mid-Cap.

Julian Stanier

Partner. Julian Stanier is a corporate finance lawyer specialising in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. He joined the firm in October 2017 having gained over 20 years’ experience at two other international firms. He advises international and UK issuers and investment banks on IPOs and secondary offerings in London (both on the Main Market and AIM) and internationally. He also specialises in UK public company takeovers and cross border and domestic mergers and acquisitions.

Kevin Boa

Kevin is a property lawyer who advises clients on a wide range of commercial property development and investment deals with an emphasis on large scale strategic land, build to rent, housing, mixed use development and energy projects. He works closely with private sector property companies, developers and landowners on purchases, sales, site assembly, development, leasing, property structuring and joint ventures. He advises the UK government on large scale surplus land disposals and regeneration involving long term partnering arrangements with the private sector. Kevin is qualified in England, Wales and Scotland.

Mark Shaw

Partner, Head of the London Office, Co-head of the Investment Funds Practice Group

Mike Reid

Mike advises on a wide range of commercial property transactions, with a particular focus on large mixed-use development schemes. Mike has advised various developers, private equity investors and sovereign wealth funds on development, investment and joint venture transactions at various stages of the development cycle from site acquisition, to letting and sales and to exit. Mike also has experience on investment transactions using corporate wrappers, on loan portfolio transactions and on corporate restructurings.

Nicholas Berry

Nic is a partner who specialises in the development and disposal of complex, problematic sites (often with environmental issues), property aspects of PPP and PFI projects and urban regeneration involving significant property development with public and private sector partners.

Nicholle Kingsley

Nicholle is a partner with extensive experience advising on planning, compulsory purchase and environment legal issues on a wide range of UK and international development and regeneration projects. She has a particularly strong practice in London, the Middle East (having spent over 2.5 years in Dubai advising on a wide variety of matters across the Mena region) and Far East. Nicholle is a solicitor advocate and has a keen interest in sustainability, and established and has chaired a Middle East corporate responsibility and sustainability group. Nicholle has excellent experience of major tall buildings, residential and commercial developments. She specialises in the real estate, hotels, retail and leisure sectors. Highlights include the £4bn metropolitan regeneration project at Stratford City and the London 2012 Olympic Park Athletes’ Village including drafting and negotiating the planning agreements and advising on compulsory purchase issues. Nicholle has advised on major redevelopment projects at Kings Cross and St Pancras, Crystal Palace, the former Young’s Ram Brewery site in Wandsworth, the Thames Tideway Tunnel and various major London and international developments.

Nick Pike

Nick Pike is a Partner with 25 years’ experience in the insolvency industry. He undertakes advisory work for banks, financial institutions, companies and directors on all issues arising out of restructuring distressed businesses. He has been retained by many boards of directors to advise them on their duties in some of the highest profile and complex assignments. Nick acts for a large number of clients in relation to advisory and contentious restructuring and insolvency law assignments. Nick acts for UK and international insolvency practitioners in investigation and asset tracing work, specialising in cross-border cases. He frequently advises stakeholders on the recovery of dissipated assets throughout the world and has considerable experience of the investigatory powers of international insolvency processes.

Nick Skea-Strachan

Head of Hotels Practice

Richard Ford

Richard is a partner who specialises in planning, compulsory purchase and the environment. He advises on the UK’s largest commercial and residential developments, together with energy and infrastructure schemes. He is consistently rated one of the UK’s leading planning and environment lawyers. He works internationally as well as in the UK. He has a wide experience of planning and environmental matters and is a regular conference speaker and author of articles in this area. In 2012 Richard was recognised in the Infrastructure and Energy section of The Lawyer magazine’s Hot 100 and in 2014 was voted one of the top 5 Planning Solicitors in the UK in the Annual Planning Magazine Survey.

Richard Lloyd

Richard has a broad experience in commercial property matters, particularly acting for investors, funders, developers and property managers. He has advised both entrepreneurial and more institutional clients on many investment and development transactions including sales and acquisitions, forward funding and development agreements, complex and high value leasing arrangements and portfolio transactions. Richard has worked on projects across the sector and has experience in dealing with a variety of assets including offices, business parks, shopping centres, out-of-town retail parks, hotels and conference centres and industrial premises. He also has experience in advising developers and operators of student accommodation and clients specialising in the provision of construction ready land. Matters that Richard has worked on include: managing the Pinsent Masons team dealing with all asset management matters for Legal & General's Leisure Fund including leases and agreements for lease and other landlord and tenant transactions; advising AXA Real Estate in relation to its role as asset manager on a number of central London development projects; representing Mayfair International on investment sales and purchases and asset management matters; acting for Redefine International on investment transactions, portfolio and estate management work (including investment sales and acquisitions, agreements for lease, surrenders, leases and management matters); advising clients on the acquisition of sites for residential development and subsequent site preparation (including planning, infrastructure and estate management matters) and disposals to developers.

Richard Williams

Richard Williams is a Partner with over 30 years of experience specialising in advising clients on all aspects of restructuring law. In particular, Richard focuses on restructuring matters in the construction sector where he is the UK’s leading practising lawyer. He acts for insolvency practitioners, banks, commercial clients, directors and creditors. Although Richard’s practice is principally in the area of restructuring, he also has particular expertise in trade finance, focusing on payment and performance security issues relating to distressed infrastructure and TMT projects. In addition, he frequently advises at the procurement stage on risk exposure issues of this nature. Richard also has significant expertise in advising on restructuring and security issues in the pensions sector, acting both for employers and trustees.

Robbie Owen

Partner, Head of Infrastructure Planning & Government Affairs

Robert Moir

Robert leads Pinsent Masons’ nationwide and international Corporate Real Estate team.  This encompasses corporate finance, IPOs and fundraisings, PLC advisory, corporate structures and M&A, joint ventures and investments for real estate sector clients.  Robert’s team is fully integrated with our real estate and tax specialists, to provide a unified sector team for investors, funders and developers.  Many of Robert’s transactions have an international or cross-border element, including assisting US investors with their transactions abroad.

Steve Cottee

Steve Cottee is a Partner with experience in all aspects of restructuring work acting for banks, office-holders, and private equity funds.  He has acted on a number of high-profile assignments in the professional practices sector, the Care Home sector and the Retail and Leisure sectors.  He has also written a number of articles and spoken at many conferences on restructuring issues.  Steve has a particular expertise in dealing with insolvent professional practices and has uniquely been involved with all of the largest UK law firm administrations. He is recognized as one of the leading lawyers dealing with the restructuring of law firms.