Richard advises on major real-estate developments and energy and infrastructure projects and has led teams acting on litigation all the way up to the Supreme Court. He specialises in complex cases involving all types of property litigation, civil fraud, insolvency, judicial reviews, planning, professional negligence, proprietary and economic torts, and trusts.

Richard's experience

  • Advised a major UK insurer on exercising break options in multiple commercial leases.

  • Acting for a multinational manufacturing corporation in a claim for the tort of nuisance and breach of covenants for quiet enjoyment and non-derogation from grant at its head office premises in London.

  • Advised a large foreign investor on a substantial dilapidations claim at commercial office premises.

  • Defended Gentian Infrastructure, a property investment firm, in a High Court claim concerning pandemic rent suspension provisions in commercial leases at hospital sites. This complex case involves substantial potential financial impact over long-term lease periods, with implications for future pandemic-related rent suspensions.

  • Advising on rights of light issues, and preparing and implementing a rights-of-light strategy, in relation to one of London’s largest and most significant regeneration projects.

  • Acting for a global multinational sustainable energy company on a dispute arising under an option agreement, resolution of which was critical to land assembly for a major project and satisfaction of planning conditions.

  • Acting for a real-estate fund and majority shareholder in defending a threatened unfair prejudice petition under section 994 of the Companies Act 2006.

  • Advising one of the largest real-estate investment managers in the UK on a substantial contractual claim involving a prime asset in Central London.

  • Acting for a FTSE 100 tenant claimant in lease renewal proceedings in respect of a substantial asset in Central London.

  • Led the team acting for a claimant landlord in a claim for terminal dilapidations at a blue-chip tenant’s former head office premises, which included a substantial consequential-loss claim for loss of rent.

Out-Law / Insight by Richard Bartle

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