Rich Roberts

Expertise

Rich is an experienced commercial real estate lawyer with a strong focus on the provision of commercial and solution-driven advice.

Rich’s practice spans a wide range of industry sectors. He regularly advises on the financing, investment and divestment, development and management of commercial property and residential estates.

Rich Advises

• Property Investment and Development Companies
• Landlords and Tenants
• Charities and NGO’s
• Insolvency Practitioners
• Banks and Financial Institutions
• Business Owners and Managers
• Private investors, family offices and HNWI’s
• Hoteliers and restaurant owners/operators

Experience Highlights

• Representing Diabetes UK on their London and regional office portfolio.
• Acting for administrators and lenders on a wide variety of lettings and disposals of commercial and residential property developments, including a block of 18 residential apartments in Brentwood, and a former RAF base in East Anglia comprising approximately 200 residential units with the development potential for a further 91 new homes.
• Advising the Electoral Reform Society on its property acquisition and development of new offices in Bermondsey.
• Advising an established and leading flexible office provider on some of its key sites across London and dealing with managed office leases and facilities/services agreements.
• Providing advice to AECOM Infrastructure & Environment UK in connection with operational offices in England.
• Acting for FM Conway, a leading infrastructure services company, in connection with the property aspects of corporate acquisitions, financing and property management.
• Advising charities on the development and management of complex and high profiles sites.
• Advising a leading shopping centre manager on all aspects of the acquisition, development and leasing of retail centres across England.

Career History

Previous Law Firms

• Kingsley Napley
• Bates Wells Braithwaite
• Shepherd & Wedderburn
• Nabarro

Businesses

• Current Chairman of ULI UK NEXT, a non-profit organisation providing leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities

Education

• Cardiff Centre for Professional Legal Studies
• Cardiff University