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Asserson Law Offices
38 WIGMORE STREET
LONDON
W1U 2RU
England

Real estate > Planning Tier 5

Daniel Drukarz leads the planning team at boutique firm Asserson Law Offices, and is adept at handling complex developments and regeneration schemes. The practice has a focus on private sector planning work, specialising in private infrastructure, and has recently taken on a new energy infrastructure project instruction. Senior associate James Kon manages planning appeals and applications, with demonstrable experience in the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

Practice head(s):

Daniel Drukarz

Other key lawyers:

Testimonials

‘Assersons has a small but very well-focused team of planning lawyers. They are knowledgeable and experienced in the constantly changing minutiae of planning law. They are also good team players and know whom to bring in when a case needs a broader set of expertise in order to be taken forward to a satisfactory conclusion.’

‘Daniel Drukarz is a very seasoned planning and property law professional with decades of valuable experience behind him. He knows his way around the planning world and gives his clients excellent service.

‘James Kon is Daniel Drukarz’s trusty lieutenant. He is very hardworking and conscientious and throws his all into a preparation for a case.’

‘Asserson has a very boutique planning practice, which means that they are completely focussed on each and every client. Whilst small, Asserson has a very experienced team that really does go the extra mile.’

‘Daniel Drukarz is a very able planning solicitor who has worked for a number of much larger planning practices and brought his experience to Asserson, where he delivers a first-class service to his clients.’

‘Danny Drukarz has seen it all and done it all, and is one of the sagest planning solicitors out there and a lovely guy!’

‘James Kon is a great lawyer with searing intellect.’

‘Danny Drukarz is a strategist second-to-none in the business. James Kon has a phenomenal ability to master detail.’

Key clients

Recharge One Limited

Basildon Estates Limited

Old Kent Road Regeneration Limited

City and Docklands Property Group

Ilford (Jersey) Limited

Createfuture Limited

Albany Homes Limited

Shaviram Aldershot Limited

P Win Solihull Limited

Stadium Capital Holdings Limited

VFund Limited

Work highlights

  • Advised Recharge One in the South Downs National Park on a successful appeal for an innovative sustainable development providing off-grid EV charging at scale and carbon-neutral lodging.
  • Advised Basildon Estates Limited on a successful appeal to regenerate the town centre and provide 500 residential units.
  • Acting for Winston Group in an application for the tallest building in Solihull Town Centre.

Asserson launched in 2005 as a bold experiment in providing UK legal services a little differently. It has teams in real estate, planning, business law, finance, employment, arbitration and dispute resolution. We have offices in London and Tel Aviv and act for international clients doing business under English law.

Each of our departments operates as a specialist team, with the advantages of a close-knit committed team, combined with the ability to connect across business areas when required. We pride ourselves in having a team of outstanding lawyers, who are typically graduates of the UK’s top universities, with many of them having spent years at some of the UK’s top law firms.

Asserson has a track record of involvement in some of the most substantial disputes’ cases that have taken place in the UK Courts, frequently acting on high profile and leading cases. We are also involved in major real estate and regeneration projects, and corporate deals. The firm works with global businesses and private clients, frequently finding itself alongside and against some of the biggest international law firms.

Asserson has always sought to be a different kind of legal practice. Its senior lawyers and partners actively lead on client work. The lawyers are with the firm for the long-term, and maintain its client relationships with the same commitment. Asserson strives to understand its clients and their business, and in doing so seeks to work innovatively, to think differently, and ultimately on behalf of its clients, to win differently.

Areas of practice:

Planning: The firm has a long track record of project managing the most complex regeneration schemes, infrastructure projects and major public/private development initiatives, and enjoys a very high success rate at appeal and in the courts. Its team of City trained lawyers brings strong commercial vision to its work, and often gets involved early on, providing strategic and long-term input through the lifetime of a project.

Business law: Asserson brings together extensive in-house and private practice legal expertise to deliver services across all areas of corporate law, all business sectors, and across borders. It is actively involved in setting up businesses, helping them expand, supporting business reorganisation, whether through merger and acquisition, or other forms of restructuring, and it has experience at working through demergers and dissolutions when those are required.

Dispute resolution and international arbitration: Asserson’s team brings market-leading litigators and arbitrators together with some of the rising stars of the future on behalf of an international client base which includes sovereign states, international government agencies, multinational corporations, banks and high-net-worth individuals. It has expertise in a wide range of fields including banking law, complex financial instruments, mining, telecoms, fraud, proceeds of crime, human rights/public law, judicial review, renewable energy, professional negligence, international trust work and defamation.

Finance: Asserson’s expertise includes secured and unsecured lending, debt and equity restructurings, project finance and infrastructure transactions, emerging market investments, leveraged acquisitions and disposals and real estate finance. It acts for lenders and lending syndicates, multilateral lending institutions (IFIs), private equity funds and fund managers and borrowers. It regularly acts on transactions involving multiple jurisdictions.

Real estate: Asserson real estate works across the commercial and residential sectors, through acquisitions and disposals, commercial leases, development schemes, planning advice, landlord and tenant matters, building contracts and warranties, and property finance. Its business model also allows Asserson to handle both large-scale initial transactions and subsequent plot sales, management work and leasing up.

Private client: We act extensively for family offices and individuals across litigation, real estate and corporate areas.

Department Name Email Telephone
Planning Daniel Drukarz daniel.drukarz@asserson.co.uk
Planning Marianne Barker marianne.barker@asserson.co.uk
Planning James Kon james.kon@asserson.co.uk
Photo Name Position Profile
Trevor Asserson photo Trevor Asserson Senior Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution
Daniel Drukarz photo Daniel Drukarz Partner and Head of Planning
James Kon photo James Kon Assoicate
David Tang photo David Tang Consultant
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