Paul is a real estate lawyer and Partner in Deloitte Legal based in the Manchester Office. He has over 20 years’ experience in the real estate legal world, with wide ranging knowledge of all aspects of residential and commercial property and development. His particular focus is on residential development and strategic land, where he heads the strategic land team, acting up and down the country for both landowners and promoters/housebuilders on land acquisitions/disposals and planning promotion, option, collaboration and equalisation agreements.
Paul’s expertise also includes acting for developer and investor clients on a wide range of matters including site assembly, acquisitions and disposals, forward funding agreements, conditional contracts and the full range of asset management work, notable examples include acting for the developer on Leigh Sports Village (the £80m multi-use sports, retail, leisure and housing development in Leigh in partnership with Wigan Council) and acting for the developer on Project Jennifer (the £150 million regeneration of the Great Homer Street/Scotland Road area of Liverpool in partnership with Liverpool City Council).