Ben Patton
AshurstWith a strong domestic and international non-contentious offering, the team at Ashurst boast ‘breadth and depth of knowledge’ in the life sciences, renewable energy, and infrastructure sectors. Providing strategic procurement advice, Ben Patton leads the team in providing construction advisory services for joint ventures in life sciences development, while Nicholas Hilder advises on financing and procurement in the nuclear energy sector. Sadia McEvoy handles renewables in the commercial sector, while Chris Whitehouse assists with residential and commercial developments, advising on significant telecoms infrastructure projects. Matt Pearson and Carrie Leader are other key members of the team.
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‘The team has always turned contract and advice around within the requested timescales. They are great at helping us develop processes and ways of working to improve the relationship between the Ashurst team and the project teams.'
‘Chris Whitehouse has been a standout individual. He has undertaken a secondment with us and has a excellent understanding of the commercial side of contract negotiations. He is an outstanding lawyer and well liked amongst the project teams.’
‘They are very strong on collaboration and spend a lot of time understanding our business and people to ensure they effectively integrate with our teams.’
‘Breath and depth of knowledge and having the finger on the pulse with the current market issues.’
‘The team have a high degree of experience of blue-chip clients and major infrastructure work and offer a very engaged and friendly service. Their breadth of commercial experience and efficiency in delivering a suite of project documents suited to the specifics of the development has been consistently reliable to me over the past three years.’
‘Ben Patton offers a very personal and attentive service and whilst delegating effectively to his team, is always prepared to get stuck in and go the extra mile. Matt Pearson and Carrie Leader have also provided consistent and thoughtful input.’
'Sadia McEvoy and Chris Whitehouse standout for me - providing practical advice in a timely manner and understanding the 'in-house' dynamic.'
'Good knowledge of this sector and have provided their expertise in drafting construction documents, assisting with dispositions and providing general advice.'
Key clients
- Lendlease
- Associated British Ports
- Balfour Beatty
- Panattoni
- Great British Nuclear
- Stanhope plc
- British Land
- HS2
- Invesco Ltd.
- Kier
- DWS
- Mitie
- H&M Hennes
- The Berkeley Group
- Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield SE
- Virgin Media O2
- Cadillac Fairview
- SNC Lavlin
- Hines
- Transport for London
- Transport for Greater Manchester
- HGG
- Oxford Properties
- Brockwell Energy Limited
- Tristan Capital Partners
- Barings
- Socius
- General Projects
- Conrad Energy
- Acorn Bioenergy Limited
Work highlights
- Advising Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield SE on the regeneration of Croydon Town Centre.
- Advising Great British Nuclear on all aspects of the financing and procurement of small, modular nuclear reactor power plants across the UK.
- Advising a joint venture of Stanhope plc, Cadillac Fairview and the development arm of Oxford University on its Oxford North development.
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