Richard is an experienced and commercially-focussed disputes lawyer with a particular focus on real estate and infrastructure disputes.

He has experience in all types of real estate disputes and real estate focussed professional negligence disputes and acts for a range of clients including institutional landlords, commercial tenants and occupiers, residential developers, insolvency practitioners, utilities companies, and both primary and secondary lenders. His client base ranges from major international companies to small businesses and individuals.

His key areas of work include: professional negligence, energy wayleaves and other energy sector related work, judicial review, contentious and non-contentious lease renewals under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, possession claims, dilapidations, break options, service charge disputes, rent review and alienation issues. He also has significant experience of property insolvency issues, compulsory purchase orders (jointly leading the firm’s contentious compulsory purchase team), all aspects of development disputes and disputes between adjoining landowners including rights of way and boundary disputes.

He is also a member of the property litigation association and the compulsory purchase association.