Richard Taylor

Having been a Real Estate lawyer with the firm for over 35 years, Richard has acted for clients (including major international businesses) from many international locations to advise them on their English Real Estate requirements whether the sale or purchase or leasing of their investment properties or business sites and any legal issues arising during ownership.

Richard’s international and UK clients come from a broad range of business sectors including international shipping, freight forwarding and warehousing, hotel and leisure operators (including casino operators and restaurant and bars) and the oil, energy and health care sectors. This has required him to advise on not only the purchase and sale of existing business premises, but also development of new operational buildings such as large (up to 120,000 square feet) offices, hotels, casinos and warehouses.

Richard has also led teams of lawyers in many complex commercial transactions involving the sale or purchase of companies and businesses on a ‘going concern’ basis where multiple operational premises (often exceeding ten sites) have been major business assets.

Richard also has high net worth international clients who regularly instruct him to buy, sell or handle ongoing requirements for their UK residential properties in London or as country homes (with many exceeding £10 million in value). He has therefore had over 35 years expertise in complex loan financing, new build development, all leasehold law requirements and other complex English property law and property taxation issues and in creating pragmatic solutions to any problem, so many of his clients instructed him on an ongoing basis for well over 20 years.

Richard has been a specialist Commercial Real Estate Lawyer for the whole of his professional career since leaving the University of Cardiff with a Law Degree and a year at Law School after finishing a degree over 40 years ago. As is often the case with busy lawyers of my generation who took that traditional route, he has learned a wide range of expertise since then by undertaking a broad range of work on a day to day basis which did not leave much time for further academic study beyond the ongoing training courses required of my profession as a solicitor