Richard Clark
Burges Salmon LLPCounting occupiers, local authorities, landowners, investors and institutional landlords, developers and construction companies among its key roster of clients, Burges Salmon LLP continues to showcase its capability in handling high-profile projects, with demonstrable experience in real estate mandates relating to nuclear and renewable energy. Richard Read leads the ‘excellent’ team and Philip Beer advises on regeneration and redevelopment projects, in addition to the real estate aspects of energy and infrastructure transactions. Richard Clark spearheads the firm’s tenant and corporate occupier team, and handles long-term, mixed-use development projects, while Ross Polkinghorne advises on sustainable regeneration projects. Amy Simpson is another key contact in the group.
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‘Legal sophistication with local knowledge and connections.’
‘The team have been excellent.’
Key clients
- Translink
- Tritax Big Box REIT
- Greater London Authority
- YTL Developments
- ENGIE
- St Modwen
- University of Bristol
- Bristol City Council
- London Wall
- The Leathersellers’ Company
- St James’ Place
- London & Regional
- LGPS Central Limited
- Darwin Investment Management
- Northern Bank Pension Trustees
- Cardiff Parkway
- Alpha Group
- Border to Coast Pensions Partnership
- Historic England
- Lands Improvement Holdings
- Places for London Limited
- Urban&Civic plc
Work highlights
- Advising Translink on its procurement of a real estate development partner, MRP, for a 1.3+ million sq ft, £500m mixed use project.
- Advising LGPS Central UK Direct Property Fund, a local government pension scheme fund, on its £500m acquisition programme of directly held property investments across a range of real estate asset classes.
- Acting for Bristol City Council in relation to the redevelopment of the Galleries Shopping centre in Bristol city centre, a redevelopment valued at £550m.
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