Mr Owen Talfan Davies > Fieldfisher > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Mr Owen Talfan Davies

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Work Department

Real Estate

Position

Partner

Career

Owen is a partner in Fielfisher’s real estate disputes team, and has been consistently recognised by Legal 500 for several years as a leading individual in the field of property litigation.

He specialises in advising on complex litigation and arbitration disputes in the real estate sector; he also practices other forms of dispute resolution, including mediation.

Owen’s sub-specialisms include advising on insolvency and fraud-related issues in the real estate sector and seeking and obtaining pre-emptive injunctive relief to protect land and other commercial interests.

He also frequently provides strategic support on large and complex property transactions, with a view to avoiding and pre-empting disputes.

Owen has been ranked as a leading individual in his practice area since 2015, and Legal 500 commentary has described him as ‘incredibly bright, extremely likeable and result-oriented‘; ‘a star in this field‘; ‘very exceptional‘; ‘not afraid to think about problems differently‘; ‘possessing a creative legal mind underpinned by an encyclopaedic knowledge of the law‘; and ‘a dynamic litigator who is the person you need when it looks like there is no way out‘.  

Owen is also noted for his work in the field of professional negligence, and Legal 500 commentary has noted Owen ‘for his experience in real estate-related professional negligence cases‘; stating that he has an ‘in-depth expertise in property-related negligence work‘; that his ‘factual and legal analysis is always spot on‘; and that he is ‘a man you want on your side‘.

Owen’s recent highlights include acting:

• for a developer in the High Court on a £750 million breach of confidence claim relating to a mixed-use central London development – one of the largest property cases (by value) in UK history;
• for a number of energy clients in obtaining pre-emptive injunctions protecting land interests, supply chains and other commercial interests;
• for developers in obtaining pre-emptive injunctions against the ‘world at large’, protecting urban regeneration development sites from acts of trespass;
• for victims of property fraud (in claims in negligence and breach of trust against firms of solicitors and agents);
• in the High Court, the Court of Appeal and expert determination proceedings in a dispute concerning the sale of Heathrow’s Terminal 5 site to BAA;
• in the High Court and the Court of Appeal in judicial review proceedings relating to the compulsory acquisition and development of a site on the Canary Wharf estate;
• for the administrators of a large chain of DIY stores in respect of a property portfolio comprising over 150 leasehold properties;
• for developers on their acquisitions and developments of a number of central London sites (recently acting on Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 possession proceedings relating to development sites with a combined gross development value in excess of £3 billion);
• in the High Court and arbitration proceedings for a landlord in a multi-million-pound claim relating to the re-letting of the 170,000 square foot London headquarters of a FTSE 100 UK broadcasting company;
• for a landlord in a service charge dispute relating to a complex mixed-use development scheme comprising over 700 residential units and 40 commercial premises;
• in proceedings against a large firm of solicitors in respect of a substantial damages claim arising under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1988.

Owen frequently lectures, writes for legal journals and provides commentary in the legal and national press on contentious property and energy sector related disputes. A number of Owen’s cases have appeared in the legal and national print and broadcast media.