Browne Jacobson LLP

Commercial property.

Dominic Swift is a partner in the Real Estate team and is also the chair of The Evolve Multi Academy Trust.

Dominic has 30 years’ experience working within the commercial property field and specialises in complex projects, appreciated by his clients for bringing not only legal expertise but also strong project management skills.  His clients welcome his “hands on and can do attitude”.

Dominic has project managed many academy conversions and advised a number of free schools focusing particularly on strategic site assembly. He has also played a major role in developing and delivering new services to help academy trusts in their strategic planning for the rapidly changing world they face.

Dominic is a member of the Real Estate Board and the Education Senior Leadership Group. Recognised for his expertise in property development and regeneration in the public sector, he brings expertise in advising on procurement in the context of land transactions. Dominic leads on major complex property projects for our education and public sector clients with his skills extending beyond the application of his legal knowledge into the field of project management.

His experience, first as a governor of a maintained school and latterly as a chair of a multi-academy trust, has given him a genuine insight into the challenges faced in the education sector and what good legal advice really looks like.

Dominic spent time on secondment with Kings College London and has seen life from both sides of the fence appreciating the pressures that in-house teams are under and the expectation they have of their external advisors.

Dominic regularly presents on issues impacting on universities, colleges, schools and academies most recently speaking onregeneration at ASCL’s annual conference and organising and participating in a series of presentations on topics ranging from health and safety to student accommodation for the Association of University Directors of Estate.

Trained Wards, Bristol; qualified 1991; joined Browne Jacobson 1996; partner Browne Jacobson 2000.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bristol; Birmingham University (1986 BSc Geography); University of the West of England (1989 CPE; LSF).

Tennis, golf.