Bates Wells

Property.

Partner in the property team acting for commercial, charity and private clients in all aspects of commercial property, including sales and purchases, landlord and tenant work, lending and property management. Recent deals include the acquisition of a development site for the BFI, refinancing of the Eden project, taking a lease of London headquarters for an international energy company at an annual rent of £1.5m and acting in connection with leases of offices at 30 St Mary Axe (the Gherkin) and the Shard.

Trained Eversheds; qualified 2000; Macfarlanes 2001-04; Boodle Hatfield 2004-05; Bates Wells Braithwaite 2005 to date; partner 2008. Publications of note: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business Law (Jordans).

The King’s School, Grantham, Lincolnshire; Durham University (1996 LLB Hons 2:1).

Classical music, opera, travel, wine, literature, cricket, Notts County FC.