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Brian Hitchcock
Work Department
Projects, Infrastructure & Construction | Real Estate | Public Sector
Position
Brian specialises in the procurement of complex construction and engineering projects across the road, energy, real estate and health sectors. He also has expertise in the Space and Ports sectors.
He has particular expertise in advising on contracting strategy and dispute avoidance to enable clients to achieve the project outcomes they wish. He has many career highlights over the past 20 years, but recent examples include advising Great Ormond Street Hospital on its major Phase 4 redevelopment, advising Goonhilly Earth Station on the upgrade of its estate and acting as a strategic advisor for many of the region’s key highways and regeneration projects.
Lawyer Rankings
South West > Public sector > Local government
The core pillars of Foot Anstey‘s practice are infrastructure, development and energy work, with the team assisting a range of public sector bodies with major projects involving multiple stakeholders and legal specialisms. Brian Hitchcock, who spearheads the unit’s offering, has extensive experience of public sector infrastructure law. Construction and engineering disputes specialist Tris Tucker assists clients from the firm’s Plymouth office. Further south, in Truro, commercial property specialist John Catchpole advises local authorities on issues such as site acquisitions and asset disposal. All named lawyers are based in Exeter unless stated otherwise.
South West > Real estate > Construction
Turned to by a host of national and international clients from the worlds of energy, transport, ports, and space, Foot Anstey regularly works with clients on major projects throughout the country. Practice head Ian Stubbs counts waste management and energy among his areas of focus. Tris Tucker specialises in disputes involving developers and contractors, while Dickon Court‘s recent workload includes a number of cladding disputes. Procurement law specialist Brian Hitchcock, energy and infrastructure experts Suriya Edwards and Mark Greatholder, and the ‘pragmatic’ Lee Ward are further key contacts.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
- Employment > Employment: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Commercial property: Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
- Real estate > Commercial property: Dorset, Devon and Cornwall
- Real estate > Construction
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy, project finance and PFI
- Private client > Family
- Employment > Health and safety
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Public sector > Local government
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Bristol
- Real estate > Commercial property: Bristol
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employment: Bristol
- Real estate > Environment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Social housing
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Bristol