John is a property lawyer specialising in public and private sector development projects. He advises clients on complex development agreements, acquisitions, disposals and overage arrangements and manages teams of property and cross-departmental lawyers on large-scale projects.

His wealth of private sector experience extends to acting for retailers, manufacturers, chemical companies and holiday companies in relation to a wide range of investment, relocation, land assembly and development projects.

In the public sector, he is one of the lead advisors to the Department for Education in relation to the real estate aspects of the UK Government’s free school programme, dealing with complex acquisitions and mixed use development projects, often to challenging timetables.

He also counts private developers, universities, further education colleges, property funds and energy providers in his wide-ranging client base.

John has spent time during his time with the firm on secondment at the Education Funding Agency. Energy and Natural Resources Hospitality and Leisure "He gets the job done in a meticulous fashion. He is someone who will question an issue when needed and very much looks at a problem with a view to finding the best solution."

Chambers 2017

“Associate to watch.”

“Acclaimed as a practitioner who is universally found by people who deal with him to be very constructive and very pragmatic”
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