Burges Salmon LLP

Burges Salmon LLP

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Colin Ligman

Colin Ligman

Burges Salmon LLP, South West

Work Department

Real Estate.

Position

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.

Career

Trained Slee Anderson & Pidgeon, Western Australia; qualified as barrister and solicitor 1995 Western Australia; joined Burges Salmon 1999 and requalified as solicitor in England and Wales 2000; partner 2006; Head of Real Estate Department 2014 - 2019.

Memberships

Active member of NARA (the Association of Fixed Charge Receivers).

Education

Attended Busselton Senior High School, Western Australia; Murdoch University, Perth (1994 LLB). Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test to requalify in England and Wales (January 2000)

Leisure

DIY and structural gardening, motorsports.

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