Simmons & Simmons

Projects/corporate and commercial.

Richard is a long-standing partner in our International Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure team and specialises in PPP/PFI concessions and non-contentious construction law in the UK and internationally, with a particular focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors.

He has recently led the Simmons team on a major refinancing of Iona Capital's asset portfolio. He has been acting for the new wave of Energy from Waste transactions and continues to maintain his role for the Ministry of Defence on a number of projects including the most recent training packages for UKMFTS and advice on Cranfield University and the Defence Sixth Form College. He is also the firm’s Pro Bono Partner with responsibility for our pro bono work across all of our international offices and has been instrumental in establishing as a charity the organisation "Lawyers Against Poverty".

Joined Simmons & Simmons 1995; partner 1997; accredited adjudicator Institution of Civil Engineers. Richard is one of the authors of the ‘Architect’s Legal Handbook’ (9th edition 2010).

Society of Construction Law.

King’s College, London (MSc in construction law and arbitration).