Claire Harvey joined Prospect Law from US firm Squire Sanders Hammond. She was formerly head of legal at United Kindom NIREX Limited (formerly the Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive). Claire has specialist expertise of domestic and international Nuclear Regulatory Law including the transport and storage of radioactive substances. She has wide experience advising on the regulatory aspects of Nuclear New Build (including the NPS) and nuclear supply contracts, and of advising Tier 1 contractors in Nuclear Decommissioning. Claire also advises on International Law and the application of International Treaties including Nuclear Liability Conventions. She has presented at International Nuclear Lawyers (INLA) Congress Meetings and is a Member of the International Nuclear Law Association and the Nuclear Institute (Management Committees). Claire is currently working with the Nuclear Industry Association, the World Nuclear Association, Ciria and UKELA.
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Edward Austin is a Commercial Real Estate Solicitor with over 25 years’ experience. After getting a first class honours degree in Law from Manchester University, Edward trained with a major City law firm and then worked for a large regional practice in the South-West of England. During this period he undertook a great deal of commercial property and estate management work for a major port operator and for a national tyre retail chain. He also advised on property secured lending for one of the big four banks as well as landed estate work for the National Trust. Edward has also been General Counsel of the former Birmingham Midshires Building Society, dealing with its entire property portfolio, and its large commercial lending and securitisations book. Edward managed the legal aspects of BM’s acquisition by HBOS, becoming divisional company secretary. He has also worked with and advised public authorities, particularly on development proposals, EU procurement law, commercial contracts, community asset transfers to charitable trusts, and general estate management. Edward contributed to Butterworths ‘Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents’, authoring the ‘Sales of Leaseholds’ Section, and frequently publishes articles on topical legal issues.
Gemma Shore is a commercial real estate solicitor. She trained at Trowers & Hamlins and qualified in 2007 when she moved to Oxford and worked at Blake Lapthorn as part of the development team in the commercial property department. She advised on a wide range of general commercial property work, including landlord and tenant transactional work; and acquisitions and disposals of freehold and leasehold commercial and industrial premises, industrial estates, office buildings and retail units. She also advised on transactions involving land development. Gemma acted for individuals, partnerships, banks, retailers, investor landlords, corporate users, universities and charities. She also provided support on corporate transactions and has managed large-scale real estate project work involving financing, acquisitions and disposals of commercial property portfolios and the preparation of certificates of title. From 2011 to 2012, Gemma worked as a commercial property manager at Genesis Housing Association. She was employed to review and report on the commercial property portfolio owned by Genesis, reporting on the terms of Leases and Licence Agreements; setting up a database for the commercial properties; advising on Lease renewals and assisting with the management of one of the residential portfolio teams.
James Hilsdon is a solicitor advocate with over 20 years’ experience in domestic and international commercial litigation. James was educated at Cambridge University before reading for the Bar, being awarded Mansfield and Megarry Scholarships by Lincoln’s Inn. James practised at the Chancery-commercial Bar for a number of years before joining Clifford Chance, where he was a member of the core advocacy team. He has also worked offshore with leading global firms Appleby and Harneys, and is admitted to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, the British Virgin Islands and Anguilla circuits. Latterly James was a commercial litigation partner in the mid-tier City of London firm, Davies Arnold Cooper. James’s practice encompasses a broad range of issues, including Intellectual Property (IP) issues and disputes, commercial litigation, investor disputes, contentious and cross-border insolvency, fraud and asset recovery, and professional negligence.
John Faulks is commercial lawyer with over 25 years’ experience in a wide variety of roles in private practice, the not-for-profit sector and in-house as General Counsel. He qualified as a solicitor in 1990 and has a law degree from Oxford University and a Masters in Environmental Law from King’s College, London.He was General Counsel at Solarcentury for 15 years and a key player in taking the business from start-up in the UK to a £200m turnover group active across 4 continents. This gives him a deep knowledge of what it takes to make renewable energy projects commercially successful, and an excellent understanding of what it takes to keep a fast growth company profitable. John has advised on a wide range of commercial law matters including utility scale energy projects, multi building portfolios and high volume residential programmes, as well as on product development and commercialising innovation. He has had a specific focus on construction and supply chain contracts; sales, marketing, distribution and licensing agreements; and contract manufacturing and joint ventures.
Justin Price-Jones qualified as a solicitor in 1998 and has gained wide ranging experience in specialist planning work within local government as well as in industry and private practice. He was Director of Legal Affairs for an AIM listed quarrying and landfill company and subsequently the Deputy Head of Legal Services for Northamptonshire County Council where he led the authority’s planning, highways and environmental law team. More recently Justin has worked as an Associate Solicitor with an independent planning specialist legal practice and his planning experience covers both contentious and non-contentious planning, minerals, waste, highways and public rights of way matters for local planning authorities, commercial developers, local action groups and individuals. Justin’s advisory experience covers applications for planning permission and certificates of lawfulness, planning enforcement appeals and prosecutions, planning agreements (including s. 106 Obligations), infrastructure agreements and compulsory purchase orders as well as High Court planning and enforcement statutory challenges and Judicial Review proceedings. Justin has developed a specialist advisory role on the planning aspects of UK energy projects and he also undertakes advocacy in public rights of way informal hearings and Public Inquiries.