Overview

To arrange a meeting with any of our experts, or to view the Burges Salmon attendees for MIPIM 2025, please visit the “Meet the Team” page.

About our Built Environment Team

Our 140 built environment lawyers, provide specialist support to those developing, investing, occupying, funding or maintaining real estate assets.

Qualified to practice throughout the UK, including England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland our award-winning, multi-disciplinary sector team can advise wherever the location and whatever the scale of your project.

Whether you’re operating within offices, industrial & logistics, retail, hotels, mixed-use regeneration, healthcare & retirement living, build to rent, student accommodation, life sciences or data centres, we have lawyers with specialist knowledge and understanding of the nuances of each asset class, helping to maximise the value of your project and protect it from risk. We also work hand-in-hand with our energy, net zero, transport, public sector and infrastructure sector groups to ensure your asset is protected for the future.

Resources

Procurement Act Guide

Getting to Net Zero: Ensuring energy resilience for industrial and logistics

Heat Network Zoning - what property developers and investors need to know

Fire Safety Update

Meet the team
Katie Allen

Katie Allen Partner

  • Real Estate Finance
  • Hotels
  • Banking and Finance
Paul Browne

Paul Browne Partner

  • Head of International Trade
  • Real Estate
  • Nuclear
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Rohan Campbell Partner

  • Real Estate Finance
  • Banking and Finance
  • Real Estate 
Robert Forman

Robert Forman Partner

  • Head of Scottish Real Estate 
  • Real Estate Advisory
  • Real Estate Investment
Jessica Garner

Jessica Garner Senior Associate

  • Real Estate Development 
  • Industrial & Logistics 
  • Infrastructure 
Will Hall

Will Hall Director

  • Real Estate Services
  • Real Estate Investment 
  • Real Estate Finance
Sally Jupp

Sally Jupp Partner

  • Real Estate Finance
  • Corporate Turnaround and Insolvency
  • Real Estate Investment and Development
Richard Read

Richard Read Partner

  • Head of Real Estate
  • International Real Estate
  • Hotels, Leisure and Tourism
Matthew Sims

Matthew Sims Partner

  • Real Estate Services
  • Retail
  • Real Estate
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Nia Stewart Director

  • Construction and Engineering
  • Public Sector
  • Education

Work highlights

  • Tritax Big Box REIT advising the UK’s largest listed investor in high-quality logistics warehouse assets, on the real estate aspects of its £5 billion portfolio. 
  • YTL Developments on the regeneration of the former Filton airfield, the birthplace of Concorde, to create a new community with 2,675 new homes, 62 acres of employment space, parkland, a new education district, a thriving town-centre and (in the hangars where Concorde was built) a new arena for Bristol and the wider South West.
  • Tristan Capital Partners on a £47 million loan to support the refinancing of a 127,000 sq. ft. BREEAM excellent-rated office asset, part of the Westfield shopping centre, located in Stratford, East London.
  • DEFRA on its Workplace and Facilities Management Project, a long-term and complex programme (worth c.£770 million) to deliver FM services across Defra's diverse and strategically important estate.
  • Virgin in relation to management of Virgin’s UK property portfolio, including advice on the company’s exit from The Battleship Building, Paddington and 66 Porchester Road to move to its new HQ at Whitfield Studios, Fitzrovia.