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SJ Berwin LLP Boosts Planning and Environment Group

Wednesday 29th March 2006

Leading corporate and commercial law firm SJ Berwin LLP has boosted its Planning and Environment Group with three new appointments.

Daniel Farrand has joined the group as a solicitor from law firm Mills and Reeve. Daniel will concentrate on planning law work on large developments and infrastructure projects as well as providing transaction support on planning and environmental law issues. Daniel was admitted as a solicitor in 1999.

Emily Peters has joined from Bond Pearce LLP and will focus on environmental and renewable energy work. Emily was admitted to the High Court of Australia in 2003.

Meeta Kaur is qualifying into the group as a solicitor. She will be dual qualified as a solicitor and chartered town planner having previously spent eight years as an assistant team leader at Westminster City Council within its planning enforcement team. She also continues as a trustee for Planning Aid for London.

The new appointments take the total number of lawyers in the Planning and Environment team to ten. Partner Simon Ricketts commented, “The work for planning and environment lawyers continues to expand, given the level of development activity we are experiencing and the continuing impacts of Government planning legislation and policy. We will be continuing to boost our team to meet client needs”.

Notes:

• On 1 June 2005 SJ Berwin LLP, an English limited liability partnership, took over the business of the SJ Berwin general partnership.

   

• SJ Berwin LLP or an affiliated undertaking has an office in Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich and Paris.

   

• SJ Berwin LLP was named ‘UK Firm of the Year’ at the 2005 Legal Week Awards on 30 November. The award recognised SJ Berwin’s five years of international expansion and its involvement in a series of high quality deals.

   

• SJ Berwin's Real Estate Division totals 118 staff of which 22 are partners (3 of which are tax partners), and 50 assistants, encompassing the disciplines of Commercial Real Estate, Construction, Planning & Environment, Property Litigation, Real Estate Funds and Tax. There is an increasing emphasis on cross firm activity with related areas of Banking and Corporate. The division acts for blue chip clients including British Land, Royal Bank of Scotland, the Hilton Group, Brixton plc, AXA, The Crown Estate, Marks & Spencer and Gazeley.

   

• The Real Estate Team is Legal Business Real Estate Team of the Year 2005. It was also named "Real Estate Team of the Year" in the Lawyer Magazine Awards 2004, following its advice on the RBS/Canary Wharf transaction the highest-value property investment transaction in the UK in 2004.

   

• Revenue from Real Estate (which includes Planning and Environment) represents approximately 23% of the firm's total revenue.

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