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Adrian Martin
Adrian Martin
Partner specialising in employment law and head of the employment law team. Advises on all areas of employment law, both contentious and non-contentious, including executive severance, restructuring, trade union and collective issues, TUPE, complex discrimination cases and Employment Tribunal and High Court litigation (including conducting tribunal advocacy). Has particular experience of advising on the employment and TUPE aspects of major procurements and outsourcing projects in both the public and private sector.
Andrew Eaton
Andrew Eaton
Andrew heads the Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency team at Burges Salmon. He has extensive experience in advising on distressed situations including corporate restructurings, turnaround and formal insolvency in the private and public sector. He has advised numerous investors, companies, management teams, insolvency practitioners and pensions trustees in relation to debt and equity restructurings, contingency planning and formal insolvency.  His work covers both domestic and cross border matters. Recent highlights include advising on a number of energy, retail and leisure situations including Wasps Holdings Limited, Birmingham Bio Power, Cote Restaurants, Bakers + Baristas and Patisserie Valerie.
Beatrice Puoti
Beatrice is the head of Burges Salmon’s Private Wealth sector and a Partner in the firm’s Private Client department. Beatrice’s primary focus is on international tax, trusts and estate planning for UK and non-UK resident and domiciled clients. She has significantly contributed to the development of the firm’s European tax and trust practice with a particular expertise on Italian issues. Beatrice also has significant experience in advising financial institutions and trustees on international trust and tax matters and on the ownership, structuring and acquisition of UK and non-UK real estate. Beatrice also specialises in cross-boarder estate planning issues with a particular focus on all issues arising from Roman Law and Common Law application. Beatrice is also ranked as one of the UK legal community’s best lawyers, having received the following accolades: 2021 Who’s Who Legal: Private Client 2020 eprivateclient 50 Most Influential Citywealth Powerwomen Awards 2019: Woman of the Year - Leadership The Spear’s Indices Top Recommended Tax & Trust Lawyers 2018 Citywealth Powerwomen Awards 2017: Inspirational Women of the Year
Chris Jackson
Chris Jackson
Chris is the firm's Head of Infrastructure and a Partner in the Transport team. He is recognised as a leading lawyer with a track record of success in complex commercial and regulatory projects and disputes. He has national recognition in three areas - the transport industry, public procurement (including complex procurement challenges for both authorities and bidders) - and health and safety. He has been closely involved in policy, strategic and operational work (and in developing the firm's strong specialist practices) in each of these areas. He also oversees a number of projects relating to intelligent transport systems, transport technology and Connected and Autonomous Mobility.
Clive Pugh
Clive Pugh
Advises trustees and employers on all aspects of pensions law and is recognised as a leading expert nationally on regulatory matters including scheme funding, clearance and governance and major Moral Hazard investigations. He draws on experience at and with the Pensions Regulator and has advised on a number of complex restructurings for schemes and employers, bringing regulatory insights. Also regarded as an expert in ongoing pensions advisory work and negotiations, including on benefit redesign, closures and corporate developments. Advised on the key regulatory cases of Silentnight, Bernard Matthews and also appointed for the reply on McDonalds
Colin Ligman
Colin Ligman
Specialist in real estate aspects of investment, development and rail infrastructure funding projects. Acts for Transports for Wales and Abellio group companies on property related matters involving rail infrastructure projects. Acts for senior debt lenders on development finance and investment finance for commercial real estate. Also acts for lenders, fixed charge receivers and administrators on distressed situations as head of the Burges Salmon Real Estate Insolvency Team. Many years’ experience both in structuring and securing loan facilities, and also acting on fixed charge receiverships and administrations involving the sale of significant commercial property assets, such as investment properties, partially completed development sites and nursing homes.
Craig Whelton
Craig Whelton
Advises on all aspects of planning law including major regeneration work, energy and compulsory purchase (acting for promoters and those affected by CPO).  Particular expertise in residential development, developer contributions and viability.  Has advised on some of the largest development projects in Scotland, including the West Craigs mixed use development in Edinburgh (1,500 houses), Meygen tidal scheme and promotion of compulsory purchase orders.  Regularly undertakes advocacy an inquiries and hearings.  Advises on judicial review and statutory challenges, including Gladman v Scottish Ministers. 
Danny Lee
Danny Lee
Danny is a partner in the firm’s corporate finance team, having joined Burges Salmon’s new Scottish office in 2019. Danny specialises in corporate finance and company law, including M&A, joint ventures, private equity and restructurings. Danny covers a range of sectors, but with a particular focus on the energy sector (notably renewables), food and drink, technology and life sciences/pharma sectors. Recent experience includes: advising Panoramic Growth Equity on its investment in Big Drop Brewing Company; advising Fern Fibre Limited and Octopus Investments on the acquisition of internet service provider M12 Solutions and the Giganet brand together with a £250m funding package; advising Riverstone on the sale of Forsa Energy’s distributed flexible power generation platform to Tiger Infrastructure Partners; advising Calcivis on its equity investment by SIB and Archangels; advising Genus plc on its strategic investment in genetics improvement consultancy, Xelect.
David Hall
David Hall
Head of Burges Salmon’s Disputes, Planning & Construction Department.  Over a 30 year career David has represented numerous major public and private institutions on a wide range of disputes, investigations and inquiries.  Currently Lead Solicitor on Burges Salmon’s appointment to provide all legal services to the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry chaired by Baroness Hallett.  David is also playing a similar role in other confidential Public Inquiries to which Burges Salmon is appointed.
Dominic Davis
Dominic Davis
Dominic is a partner in the firm's Corporate Finance team. His practice covers all areas of corporate finance work but he specialises in complex M&A transactions and joint ventures. He regularly advises both quoted companies and their financial advisers on a full range of equity transactions including IPOs and secondary fundraisings. His practice also includes advising on company law and corporate governance issues. He works for a range of private and public companies on both UK and cross-border deals and regularly advises overseas investors investing, or acquiring assets, in the UK. Dominic is a member of the firm’s US committee. Recent transactions include (i) advising the shareholders of FlightScope on the sale of the software company to IMG, (ii) advising the founder shareholders on the sale of specialist education provider LexAble to Norwegian company Lingit AS, (iii) advising WH Ireland on the AIM flotation of Northcoders Group plc and (iv) advising the founder shareholder of Keep IT Simple on the sale of the company to The Panoply Group PLC.
Emma Folkes
Emma Folkes
Partner working within the firm's Food and Farming team and specialising in non-contentious agricultural property matters. Acts on a wide variety of transactional matters including sales and purchases and the grant of tenancies, and advises on a wide range of issues arising from the ongoing management of farms and estates. Client base is UK-wide and includes landowners, farmers, national institutions and charities. Recent examples of work: acting on the sale, in parts, of a significant estate comprising let farms, in-hand woodland and cottages. Acting on the sale of a portfolio of rural cottages. Documenting the division of a family farm following the settlement of a complex farming partnership dispute. Working with an institutional landowner on the restructure of agricultural tenancy arrangements. Acting on the acquisition of strategic land subject to complex overage obligations relating to future development.
Gary Soloman
Gary Soloman
Partner and head of Burges Salmon's planning and compulsory purchase team. Recent/current matters: acting for Isle of Anglesey County Council in relation to the proposed new nuclear power station at Wylfa, including promoting a CPO for significant highway improvements. Advising on a number of town and city centre regeneration schemes and acting for the Canal and River Trust and the Environment Agency in promoting CPOs to deliver European funded environmental works along the River Severn. Gary also recently assisted Redrow Homes secure permission for a 7,000 home garden village at Plasdwr, North-West Cardiff.
Guy Bastable
Guy Bastable
Financial Crime; POCA Work & Asset Forfeiture; Health & Safety; Administrative & Public Law; Environment. Regulatory investigations; corporate crime; financial crime; Coroner’s inquests; public inquiries. Corporate manslaughter; health and safety; fire safety; food safety;  environmental protection; consumer protection and trading standards. Serious fraud; tax fraud; money laundering; bribery and corruption; insider dealing and market abuse. AML/ABC compliance; recovery of the proceeds of crime (restraint; confiscation; cash seizure; unexplained wealth; civil recovery); judicial review of the actions of investigators. Crisis management; corporate and director liability; corporate internal investigations; corporate engagement with regulators; responding to complex investigations and prosecutions.
Ian Truman
Ian is a Partner in the Nuclear Team at Burges Salmon. Following his time as Deputy General Counsel for EDF Energy’s nuclear new build business in the UK between 2010 - 2015 working on the Hinkley Point C, Sizewell C and Bradwell B new nuclear projects, he is one of the few private practice lawyers in the UK with experience in developing a new nuclear power station under the current UK regulatory regime. Since returning to private practice he has worked on a number of high profile nuclear new build and other nuclear projects both in the UK and internationally including a number of international SMR projects. Ian advises sponsors, developers, technology vendors, operators, regulators, nuclear insurers, government departments, funders and contractors on all aspects of UK, European and international nuclear law. Ian's expertise includes advising on: - Nuclear regulatory frameworks in the UK and emerging nuclear countries, including providing nuclear law training and drafting nuclear legislation; - The legal aspects of Safety, Security, Safeguards and Liability - including nuclear third party liability insurance; - The licensing of nuclear installations - including the licensing of nuclear fusion and small modular reactors in the UK and abroad; - Nuclear fuel supply; - Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel management and disposal; - The transport of nuclear and radioactive materials; - Export controls; - The requirements of the Euratom Treaty and its associated Directives and Regulations; - Project arrangements for the deployment of small and advanced modular reactors; and - Nuclear Co-operation Agreements between states Ian is also a joint editor of the Third Edition of Burges Salmon's Text Book on Nuclear Law (please e-mail for a free copy).
Ian Tucker
Ian Tucker
A specialist in rail and wider transport law and regulation and a dispute resolution lawyer with extensive experience in commercial litigation, public procurement and alternative dispute resolution. A solicitor advocate with oral advocacy experience in arbitrations, adjudication, regulatory appeal hearings and court. Working regularly for corporates in the transport and energy sectors particularly on regulatory compliance, issues in contractual delivery and litigation. Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales.
Ian Carnochan
Ian Carnochan
Ian Carnochan is a partner in the tax team and leads the Corporate Tax practice at Burges Salmon.  He advises on all areas of corporate, real estate and commercial tax, with clients including corporate groups, financial institutions and investors, pension funds and public sector bodies.   He has considerable experience advising on mergers and acquisitions and investment transactions, as well as on real estate development transactions, financing arrangements and funds.  Ian is a member of the Law Society's Corporation Tax Sub Committee and Stamp Taxes Working Group.  He is also a member of the Stamp Taxes Practitioners Group.
Jeremy Bell
Head of the Private Equity Funds practice at Burges Salmon LLP.  We focus on the structuring, formation and winding up of alternative asset funds, including carried interest arrangements and establishing manager vehicles.  Clients include Braavos Capital, DeaconCapital, Hamilton Hotel Investors,  Nippon Life, Praesidium,  True Altitude and Wales Pension Partnerhip. We also advise a number of pension funds on their substantial investments into private equity, debt or real estate funds.
Jim Aveline
Jim Aveline
Partner and head of the firm's Private Client Services department.  Specialises in tax and estate planning for both UK and offshore clients. This includes advising landed estates and diversified farm businesses on their various tax, trust and agricultural issues. He also has a particular focus on succession planning and structuring for family business owners and heads up Burges Salmon’s Family Business team. His international work includes advising resident and non-resident clients on their global trust and wealth structuring and advising on structures to pass their wealth on to the next generation. Recent examples of work include: advising an international family with £300m+ assets on their offshore structures, innovative partnership and trust structuring to claim CGT relief on a record breaking agricultural land sale; advising the trustees of a significant landed estate following the death of its main heir; drafting and advising on a Family Charter to set out the principles of how control and ownership will pass in a large diversified family business to give certainty to the next generation. Winner of STEP President’s prize for best thesis on international issues.
Joanne Attwood
Joanne Attwood
Heads up Burges Salmon's Licensing practice. Advises clients on all issues arising under the Licensing Act 2003 and Gambling Act 2005 as well as a number of other licensing regimes including applications, variations, reviews, contractual drafting and general regulatory compliance issues. Also advises clients on the commercial aspects of event organisation. Clients come from a variety of industry sectors including leisure and tourism, charities, education, transport, retail and real estate development as well as smaller independent operators and private individuals. Work highlights include advising on licensing issues for a globally recognised event, advising on the management of a multi-million pound licensed property portfolio and advising on licensing issues connected with a major group company restructure.
John Barnett
Head of Private Client Services department. Provides a full range of tax advice to individual and corporate clients. Including advice to private banks, trust companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and owner managers on personal and business tax. Work also encompasses tax advice on corporate and business structures; advice on offshore structures and advice on offshore and onshore trusts. Experience also includes: tax litigation/investigations; advocacy before Tax Tribunal; EIS work; non-domiciliaries and UK land; international corporate work including advice to a number of clients on international holding company structures, coupled with personal advice on trust and tax planning; corporate restructuring advice on a number of significant transactions; and the taxation of development land, including general advice to landowners.
John Houlden
John Houlden
Advises on procurement, subsidy control/state aid, projects, competition and regulatory issues on a number of major projects. Clients include the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Eurostar, FirstGroup, the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Ofcom, Affinity Water, Department for Education, Environment Agency, United Kingdom Research and Innovation, Babcock, Ministry of Justice, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and UK Atomic Energy Authority.
Jonathan Eves
Jonathan Eves
Partner in the corporate finance team with a particular focus on corporate finance transactions in the energy and healthcare sectors. Details of significant deals: acting for various developers, funders and institutional investors on investment in, and the acquisition and disposal of, renewable energy projects and portfolios across a range of technologies; advising Bluefield Solar on the acquisition of and financing of a portfolio of 15 operational solar PV plants with an aggregate capacity of 64.2MWp; advising GCP Infrastructure Investments (Gravis) in relation to the acquisition of a 70MWp portfolio of five operating wind farms from funds managed by Platina Energy Partners; advising Statkraft UK Ltd on its acquisition of UK onshore wind developer Airvolution Clean Energy Ltd.
Kevin Kennedy
Kevin Kennedy
Partner advising on private client/trust and agricultural disputes.  Recent cases include Sofer v Swiss Independent Trustees (breach of trust claim), James v James (proprietary estoppel, will capacity), Owen v Harris (nature of tenancy), McDonald v Rose (proprietary estoppel and family company share allotment), Earl of Plymouth v Rees (agricultural tenancy interpretation and injunction) and Abberley v Abberley (binding nature of a settlement agreement),  Other cases involve partnerships, trusts and agricultural property.  Joint head of the firm’s Contentious Trusts and Probate Practice.
Lloyd James
Lloyd James
Lloyd is a partner in the construction and engineering unit. He joined Burges Salmon in 2008 and acts for developers, funders and contractors specialising in the following areas: Construction and Engineering; Energy and Renewables; Waste Management; Water and Utilities; Transport Infrastructure; and PPP Projects. Lloyd deals with a range of contracts used in the industry and his focussed sectors (including, among others FIDIC, NEC, IChemE, MF/1 and LOGIC). Recent examples of Lloyd’s work include: advising ITER/Fusion for Energy on its multi-billion pound international nuclear fusion project in Cadarache, France; advising Highways England in connection with M25 associated works relating to the expansion of Heathrow airport; advising the Cayman Islands Government on the delivery and procurement of a new and innovative waste-to-energy scheme; advising MeyGen in connection with the construction packages for the world’s largest commercial tidal array in Pentland Firth; advising a developer in connection with a significant new nuclear build project in the UK; advising a contractor/JV on the delivery of a £1 billion+ highways project in South Wales; advising Costain as EPC Contractor on the Greater Manchester Waste PFI project. Europe’s largest waste management scheme; advising in connection with significant defence construction projects in Saudi Arabia utilising FIDIC forms of contract with bespoke amendments for the local market; advising ThyssenKrupp in connection with a number of mining projects worldwide; advising public sector authorities (including Devon, Gwynedd and Isle of Wight councils) in connection with a series of energy related PFIs/PPPs.
Luke Bowery
Luke Bowery
Partner in the Employment unit. Advises employers and employees in both the public and private sectors on the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment law related matters including executive appointment and severance, equality and discrimination, TUPE, redundancy and restructuring and employment tribunal claims. Recent work includes advising on a number of large scale restructuring projects across multiple sites and/or jurisdictions, defending complex race and disability discrimination employment tribunal claims and providing strategic advice on Board level employment issues including responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. Regular speaker at external seminars and events across the UK.
Marcus Harling
Marcus Harling
Partner – Construction, Engineering, Procurement and Development. Provides strategic advice on all aspects of the construction of infrastructure and real estate development; including procurement and delivery of projects, and the resolution of disputes. Advises government and the private sector on the procurement and delivery of capital projects through all asset and infrastructure sectors. A particular focus on Modern Methods of Construction and new delivery structures. Marcus is a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery
Mark Paterson
Mark Paterson
Partner specialising in infrastructure projects and general commercial law. Mark acts for both the public sector and private sector. He is lead adviser for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in relation to the £31bn Dreadnought Programme and the £2bn AWACs aircraft procurement. He acted for MoD on the £10bn Astute Programme and the £4.5bn Skynet 5 satellite system. Mark acted for the Department for Transport and MoD in connection with its £6bn Search and Rescue Helicopter programme. Mark also acted for the UAE Armed Forces on its procurement of a multibillion-dollar military satellite system as well as multi-billion dollar infrastructure projects in the KSA for a European based defence company. Mark also led the team advising the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on their multi-billion pound Dounreay and Magnox civil nuclear reactor decommissioning programmes.
Matthew Walker
Matthew Walker
Partner – Financial Services, Regulatory Investigations, Corporate and Commercial Disputes, InsuranceRecent experience includes conducting internal investigations for large organisations in relation to compliance if FCA regulatory requirements.  Advising leading accountancy firms on FRC Investigations under the AEP and Accountancy Scheme.  Advising corporates on disputed insurance claims in the financial services, healthcare and construction sectors.  Advising corporates on a range of contractual and financial disputes.
Michael Hayles
Michael Hayles
Pensions partner advising trustees and employers in respect of all aspects of defined benefit, defined contribution and hybrid schemes, heading up the team’s bulk annuity work (including through the streamlined buy-in proposition with Willis Towers Watson). Michael also leads on the firm’s public sector pensions work including acting for Local Government Pension Scheme funds and employers, central government clients, Transport for Wales and other rail sector clients. Recent projects Michael has led on include consolidating £1bn+ liabilities within the Local Government Pension Scheme, acting for an employer on a large transfer into The Pensions Trust, and a large number of buy-in transactions.
Patrick Robinson
Patrick Robinson
A partner in the firm's planning unit. Solicitor advocate in the civil courts specialising in all planning issues including negotiation on planning and other infrastructure agreements and appearing as an advocate at planning inquiries; recent projects have included advising Isle of Anglesey on the Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station application and has appeared as advocate in a number of planning inquiries for energy developments. Lectures regularly on planning and compulsory purchase topics to planning professionals.
Philip Beer
Philip Beer
Philip has over 20 years of experience in advising public and private sector clients on large scale, high profile real estate development and regeneration projects and the real estate aspects of major projects and infrastructure deals. Philip led the team that won the award of Energy and Infrastucture Team of the Year at the British Legal Awards 2020 - which recognised Philip and his team’s work on the transfer from Network Rail to Transport for Wales of 87 miles of track, signals, land, people and all other operational railway assets. A project of the scale to transfer of the operational railways around Cardiff (known as the Core Valley Lines) had never been attempted before. The project was a genuine first of a kind deal which was successfully concluded on-time.  Other infrastructure experience includes advising clients on projects in the rail, energy, defence, civil nuclear and water sectors. Philip’s work on regeneration includes advising on high profile developments around the UK, including King’s Cross Central, the Royal Albert Dock regeneration, Limmo Peninsula, Brabazon Bristol and Weavers Cross in Belfast. Given his specialist rail sector experience, Philip has particular expertise in dealing with regeneration sites that interface with transport hubs and transport infrastructure/assets. 
Richard Read
Rick is ranked as a leading individual in London for corporate occupier representation. He acts for international and UK clients on their UK real estate requirements. He has extensive experience in acting for global corporates, international investment and sovereign wealth funds, investment companies and ultra-high net worth individuals. His expertise covers a number of asset classes from City offices to portfolio management and hotel and leisure investment, financing and development. Rick heads of the firm’s Hotels and Leisure practice group and sits on the firms Executive and International Committees.
Richard Pettit
Richard Pettit
Richard advises companies and pension scheme trustees on issues including moral hazard investigations, corporate restructuring, Pension Protection Fund work, funding negotiations, scheme documentation, closures and mergers. Richard's work has included advising scheme trustees on a high-profile moral hazard investigation by the Pensions Regulator involving a financial support direction being sought against a UK and overseas listed plc; advising a manufacturing company with a pension scheme with a £60 million deficit on the entry of the scheme into the Pension Protection Fund; and providing legal advice on the detailed mitigation for a pension scheme in the context of a £4bn restructuring of the supporting employer group.
Richard Owen
Richard joined Burges Salmon in 1998. He specialises in real estate development, real estate investment, minerals and escheat. In relation to development matters, Richard acts exclusively for landowners. Typically this involves the disposal of development land by way of option, promotion agreement, conditional contract or competitive tender. Many of his transactions involve acting for consortia of landowners in their dealings with one or more developers. Richard is also the lead partner advising The Crown Estate in relation to the management of its Traditional Portfolio, in addition to handling various acquisitions and disposals. He also manages the administration of land reverting to The Crown of common law, under the doctrine of Escheat.
Richard Adams
Construction & engineering Partner; a specialist construction troubleshooting and disputes lawyer with a sector focus covering Transport, Energy & Utilities and Real Estate infrastructure. Recent matters include providing strategic troubleshooting advice and acting in adjudications and arbitrations for a main contractor on a complex road infrastructure project; advising an international client on disputes relating to the construction and fit out of headquarters in central London; advising an international client involved in the nuclear industry on disputes with a specialist contractor valued in the region of €300m; advising Birmingham City Council in relation to capital projects associated with the 2022 Commonwealth Games; advising a local authority on cladding and fire safety issues in relation to two residential blocks.
Richard Clark
Richard Clark
Head of Burges Salmon's cross-departmental Real Estate Sector Group, having led the firm's Real Estate department for five years between 2009 and 2014. Richard advises investors, developers and occupiers with a particular focus on the office, industrial and logistics, and retail sectors, leading teams undertaking portfolio asset management work and acting on major transactional property investment acquisitions and disposals. Richard also specialises in major mixed use and residential led development and regeneration projects.
Ross Simpson
Ross Simpson
Partner in Real Estate specialising in strategic land and rural property. Undertakes complex strategic land work advising on options, promotion agreements and conditional contracts associated with major projects regularly acting for consortia of landowners. Also works within the firm’s Food and Farming team advising on the purchase and sale of estates, farms, country houses, commercial forestry, island properties, sporting rights and salmon fishings. Expertise extends to advising landowners and investors on natural capital opportunities including rural land acquisition and management for Biodiversity Net Gain, carbon and other environmental outcomes. Clients include traditional land and estate owners, family trusts, farm partnerships and institutional investors. Dual qualified to practise in Scotland and England and Wales.
Rupert Weston
Rupert Weston
Specialises in corporate finance and company law. Experience includes advising on mergers and acquisitions; flotations; secondary issues; joint ventures; restructurings and general corporate law, with particular expertise in the transport and hotel sectors. Recent experience includes advising ITM Power in relation to a £172m fundraise, advising Darwin Alternatives on its acquisition of Memoria and Low Cost Funerals, advising on the c$50m acquisition of Blue Venn by Upland Software and numerous transactions within the hotel and leisure sector.
Sian Edmunds
Sian Edmunds
Sian is a specialist advisor to food and drink, consumer product and agricultural businesses. She heads our Food and Drink team and acts for business across the supply chain; from agri-businesses and primary producers to manufacturers, processors, food service operatives and retailers. Sian provides regulatory advice on labelling and packaging, food safety and product safety issues.  She acts for clients facing trading standards and environmental health enforcement proceedings and provides a full range of dispute resolution services to her clients; including claims arising from product liability issues, product recalls and withdrawals and contractual disputes.  Sian advises on partnership disputes and on disputes and arbitrations concerning agricultural tenancies and land ownership, including succession applications, notices to quit, proprietary estoppel claims and contentious trust and probate issues. 
Simon Tilling
Simon Tilling
Advises on UK environment, chemicals and product standards law including operational compliance, risk management in transactions, regulatory investigations, enforcement and criminal defence, regulatory appeals, tribunal hearings, judicial review and environmental civil claims. Expertise in waste management; environmental permitting; air quality; contamination and remediation; and nuisance claims. Particular specialism in chemicals and product compliance regimes such as REACH, BPR, WEEE and RoHS. Dual-qualified enabling him to practice throughout England and Wales and Scotland. 
Steven James
Steven James
Partner in and Head of the Construction and Engineering group, and dual-qualified (chartered quantity surveyor). A broad practice encompassing energy, defence and transport infrastructure, real estate, outsourcing, and dispute resolution. Clients include Affinity Water, Abellio Group, Babcock Group, RBS, HSBC, The YTL Group and The National Trust.  Notable projects include advising on the development of a new nuclear power plant, nuclear fuel dry store, legacy nuclear waste treatment facility, new rail depot, framework arrangements for water network and rail infrastructure, the development of a new luxury hotel and spa and associated developments for nuclear powered submarines.
Stuart McMillan
Stuart McMillan
Stuart is a finance lawyer, based in the firm's Edinburgh office.   He is dual qualified in Scotland and in England and Wales and has extensive experience working for funders, sponsors and public authorities on project and development finance deals in the UK and overseas. Stuart has acted on the introduction of some of the most innovative financing models in the UK market including the 'aggregator' and 'bank/bond hybrid' models. Stuart also has extensive experience in real estate finance and asset-based lending matters.
Suzanna Harvey
Suzanna Harvey
Head of the Private Wealth Sector and partner in international tax and trust unit of Private Client Services department. Specialises in international tax and estate planning for UK and non-UK clients. Advises non-UK domiciliaries on the income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax implications of UK residence, and about international estate planning. Provides UK tax advice to financial institutions, for example advising on the UK tax implications of their products. In addition, provides trust advice to numerous international trust companies and individuals, including drafting trust documentation, advising on general trust law issues and advising on policy documentation.
Suzanne Padmore
Suzanne Padmore
A specialist in pensions and financial services litigation. Pensions expertise covers a wide range of work including Part 8 rectification and construction claims, funding disputes and trustee applications to court for directions. Suzanne has acted in significant pensions professional negligence claims in recent years, acting for pension scheme employers and trustees. Suzanne also has a growing practice advising firms in the personal pensions market, addressing legal and regulatory issues.
Victoria Allsopp
Victoria Allsopp
Victoria is a Partner in the Banking and Finance team, specialising in project finance with a particular focus on energy (renewables, including wind, solar, gas and waste) and infrastructure projects. Victoria’s clients are drawn from across the full spectrum of the energy and infrastructure sector and include sponsors, borrowers and lenders, including many of the leading banks and financial institutions in the market.  In addition to her core specialism, Victoria has considerable experience in acquisition finance, asset finance, general corporate finance and insurance finance.
Will Woodall
Will Woodall
Will is a partner in Burges Salmon’s award-winning Infrastructure team, and has specialised since 2005 in the Energy sector. He has particular expertise in advising on the numerous real estate issues which are faced by clients developing, investing in and funding Energy assets. Recent experience includes: Extensive, market-leading experience of advising on all real estate aspects of solar, onshore wind, anaerobic digestion, biomass, reserve power, battery storage, hydro-electric and energy from waste projects. Advising investment funds and renewable energy companies (including Bluefield, Greencoat, Downing and Octopus Energy Investments) on the acquisition, financing and disposal of renewable energy assets and on the legal asset management of their portfolios. Advising numerous developers of renewable energy projects (including Anesco, Renewable Connections and Conrad) across all technologies on the property arrangements for their developments. Leading teams working on the development of major infrastructure projects including advising on offshore and onshore property arrangements for offshore windfarms and Carbon Capture and Storage pipelines. These often involve long cable or pipeline routes, requiring significant numbers of agreements and the efficient legal management of multiple contracts. Working on innovative structuring arrangements assisting the deployment of rooftop solar installations and on-site energy centres. Real Estate Partner specialising in energy and infrastructure projects and healthcare. Advises: developers, investors and funders of energy projects across the whole range of technologies, infrastructure projects and healthcare property. Recent highlights include advising Bluefield on the acquisition and financing of £110m portfolio of 15 operational solar parks, Anesco on its solar and battery developments and Vattenfall throughout the development of England and Wales' largest wind farm (Pen Y Cymoedd). Advising on investment into and refinancing of numerous on-farm anaerobic digestion plants, ground mounted solar parks and rooftop solar installations. Market leading experience in battery storage and reserve power plants. Advising a major healthcare company on its property portfolio.
William Gard
William Gard
Will is a chartered civil engineer as well as a solicitor, practising arbitrator and adjudicator and has over 30 years' infrastructure projects experience. Will specialises in engineering and infrastructure projects procurement and dispute resolution. He has particular expertise in the design, construction and operation of energy, water, utilities, transport and other infrastructure projects. Will’s practice includes advising on the merits of potential claims to troubleshooting on complex projects and ultimately formal proceedings if necessary. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Will is also a specialist in arbitration and adjudication and leads the firm's Arbitration and Adjudication practice area.  He has been appointed as adjudicator/arbitrator on over 100 occasions over the last 20 years. Will is the immediate post Chairman of the Technology and Construction Solicitors' Association and sits on the Committee.