About me
I specialise in all aspects of large-scale development and regeneration, working with property developers, public authorities, institutional investors and funders.
I advise on complex site assembly, joint ventures and collaborations. This covers mixed use, BtR, PBSA, retirement living, hotel and CPO-anchored development projects, many involving ‘income strip’, forward funding/purchase and grant funding.
I have a deep understanding of development and regeneration and how the public and private sectors work. I have specialist expertise in creating commercially advantageous bespoke legal structures for public and private projects, crafting solutions that help clients avoid or mitigate public procurement rules and restrictions.
I work as an extension of my clients' teams, taking time to understand their needs and preferences to provide a tailored service. I combine a pragmatic approach with clear communication and creative thinking to help clients make informed decisions and deliver innovative solutions.
I find satisfaction in helping clients by creating effective, delivery-focused structures and approaches, which must ‘work’ both legally and practically in the real world, and that they may need to ‘unlock’ potential development opportunities, empowering them to being new developments to life.
Giving back is important to me, and I’m a governor of a local state primary school.
My experience
- Acting for English Cities Fund (a joint venture between Legal & General, Homes England and Muse), creating their hugely innovative overarching partnering arrangements with Salford City Council on the £1 billion GVD Salford Central development.
- Acting for long-time client Vita on the disposal of a portfolio of PBSA developments/properties with 3198 beds across England and Scotland to a German Investment Fund for £600 million.
- Acting for Select (in joint venture with Bruntwood) on the £850 million ‘Circle Square’ Manchester development.
- Acting for Renaker on the funding, development, and investment sales of the £750 million, 1500 occupancy residential unit Deansgate Square, Manchester, development.
- Acting for Vita on a complex £250 million Lewisham PBSA/affordable housing development, including developing affordable student and residential accommodation, involving innovative ‘modular’ construction methods and energy provided by a ‘district’ CHP and supply grid.
- Acting for Gresham House and MMC Homebuilding opposite a local authority on the development of additional residential units. This was an entirely new form of transaction, as it involved innovative ‘modular’ (rather than conventional) construction methods – a ‘game changing’ solution to the public sector’s inability to meet residential demand.