Tim Fogarty > Winckworth Sherwood LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Winckworth Sherwood LLP Offices

MINERVA HOUSE
5 MONTAGUE CLOSE
LONDON
SE1 9BB
England
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Tim Fogarty
Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Partner
Tim is an experienced development risk and disputes lawyer with a particular focus on rights of light, neighbourly matters and planning litigation. He has 25 years’ experience in real estate and development work and acts for several of the UK’s major national house builders and a broad range of other residential developers and investors.
His advice ranges from pre-acquisition risk assessment, to identify and minimise risks from neighbour rights and interests, through to tactical advice to resist direct challenges to a scheme or its underlying planning consent.
Career
Trained: Clifford Chance; qualified: 1991, solicitor Clifford Chance 1991-1996; senior associate then partner Masons 1996-2004; partner Bevan Brittan LLP 2004-08; partner and head of real estate Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP; partner Winckworth Sherwood 2017-present
Memberships
Law Society of England and Wales; Property Litigation Association (past Chairman)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Real estate > Planning
Winckworth Sherwood LLP‘s planning team has a strong track record advising on major projects, particularly mixed-used and residential-led developments, urban extensions, tall buildings and riverside schemes. The team acts for major residential developers, in addition to having a strong local authority client base. Practice head Colette McCormack works with Tim Fogarty, whose focus is on contentious planning issues and site disputes, as well as Lindsay Garratt. Former practice head Karen Cooksley left the firm in December 2020 to join W Legal Limited.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Social housing: local authorities and registered providers
- Public sector > Infrastructure (parliamentary)
- Real estate > Social housing: finance
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Employment > Senior executives
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Public sector > Local government
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Transport > Rail
- Real estate > Social housing: local authorities and registered providers
- Public sector > Education: schools
- Private client > Family
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Social housing: finance
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Employment > Employers