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Our advisers act on domestic and international matters of all shapes and sizes, working with many of the leading names in the market. Browse our experience below, or use the filters to look-up recent work in particular geographies and industry sectors.

  • Cumbria County Council

    Advised Cumbria County Council (prior to local government reorganisation) on the delivery of the £100m+ Carlisle Southern Link Road to provide vital infrastructure and network capacity to enable the successful and accelerated delivery of 10,000 new homes in St Cuthbert's Garden Village.

  • Folkestone & Hythe District Council

    Advising Folkestone and Hythe Council on site assembly of the proposed new 12,000 home Otterpool Park Garden Community, including strategic options and landowner collaboration agreements.

  • City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council

    Advising Bradford Council on the set up and operation of two new levelling up funds to be spent on capital projects designed to improve connectivity, improve local land use, make the best use of economic and cultural assets and improve local skills and enterprise infrastructure.

  • Coventry City Council

    Advising Coventry Council on their engagement in a major redevelopment of its city centre. This included advice on development constraints and vacant possession strategy.

  • ASE II Manchester Limited

    Advised Commercial Estates Group (CEG) on devising and implementing a strategy to mitigate rights of light claims by numerous adjoining landowners to a substantial redevelopment of a key city centre development.

  • Herefordshire Council

    Advised Herefordshire Council on a major regeneration and link road CPO involving delivery of a major mixed use shopping centre and residential scheme to develop 2,500 homes and a new link road through part of Hereford to enable the development.

  • Guildford Borough Council

    Advising Guildford Borough Council on the Weyside Urban Village project which is a significant regeneration project which will deliver 1,500 homes, a new sewage treatment facility, new waste transfer facility, commercial depot, commercial/industrial units, infrastructure and upgraded public realm.

  • Bristol City Council

    Advising Bristol City Council on the £50 million Hengrove Park housing development project. The project is a major strategic housing site to the south of Bristol city centre and our client wishes to bring forward the site for mixed tenure housing development for up to 1200 units.

  • Forth Ports Limited

    Advising Forth Ports and Rettie on the Western Harbour development, a massive and long-running mixed-use regeneration project in Edinburgh. This is a large and strategically important mixed use development in Edinburgh. It is a key component of the overall development strategy for the City of Edinburgh, on one of the largest brownfield regeneration sites in the City.

  • Client Confidential

    Advising a local council on the disposal of part of their town centre (and adjacent open land) at Westside in Wolverhampton by way of a non-procured income strip lease with Urban & Civic to deliver a new cinema/leisure led development with associated food & beverage space together with public realm. We advised on all transaction and project documentation.

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Richard Ford

Partner

Richard co-leads our Garden Communities team, advising on over 30 Garden Communities across the UK. He specialises in the full life cycle for Garden Communities projects, and Locally Led New Town Development Corporations and other delivery vehicles. With Stewardship, he advises on data trusts for Garden Communities to achieve ESG outcomes.

Managing Partner

Richard has overall responsibility for the day-to-day management and operations of the firm globally.

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Pinsent Masons appoints Sarah Derbyshire as General Counsel

Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has appointed Sarah Derbyshire as General Counsel.

Orbital launches Scots Law workflows for Commercial Real Estate following pilot with Pinsent Masons

Orbital has built specific workflows for Scottish commercial real estate work, built around Scots Law and Scottish real estate practice 

Pinsent Masons advises on £230m plus Penta Real Estate and Staycity Group London aparthotel joint venture

Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has advised Penta Real Estate on its investment into a landmark £230 million-plus joint venture with Staycity Group and advised the joint venture on the financing arrangements for the development, which will deliver a 350-room Wilde aparthotel in the heart of London's Farringdon district. 

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