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Shoosmiths LLP
103 COLMORE ROW
BIRMINGHAM
B3 3AG
England
103 COLMORE ROW
BIRMINGHAM
B3 3AG
England
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Richard Willcox
Work Department
Real Estate, Litigation
Position
Richard is a Legal Director commercial property litigator, with a particular specialism in disputes arising under telecoms property law, acting predominantly for landowners and infrastructure providers.
Aside from telecoms, his practice consists of a mix of residential and commercial property development disputes and undertaking complex landlord and tenant asset management work for major high street retailers.
Recent work highlights include:
- successfully removing telecoms operators from site earmarked for £400 million campus redevelopment by higher education institution;
- advising on the strategy and the steps required to exercise a conditional break option on a £1.4 million pa central London retail unit;
- obtaining a direction from Ofcom granting Code Powers to a provider of critical national infrastructure;
- undertaking High Court proceedings, involving the complex interplay between mines and minerals and Inclosure Acts, in relation to a west London development site; and
- acting for a charitable trust in a hostile 1954 Act dispute, seeking to recover vacant possession of a World War II heritage building for use as museum space.
Memberships
He is a member of the Property Litigation Association
Education
After reading Law at the University of Exeter and French Law at the Universite de Rennes 1, Richard trained at Shoosmiths and qualified into its property litigation team in 2013.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Environment
- Employment > Health and safety
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Birmingham
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Birmingham
- Public sector > Education
- Employment > Employment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: Birmingham
- Real estate > Social housing
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Employment > Pensions