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Philip Baker
Work Department
Real estate, construction.
Position
Partner
Career
Trained Paisner & Co; qualified 1999; Paisner & Co 1999-2001; Berwin Leighton Paisner (following merger) 2001-05; Forsters LLP 2005-06; Lawrence Graham LLP 2006 to date; Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co, partner, 2014.
Languages
French.
Memberships
Society of Construction Law.
Education
University of Birmingham (1994 BA Hons history); Brasenose College, Oxford (1996 BA Hons jurisprudence); College of Law, Chester (1997 LPC).
Lawyer Rankings
London > Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
Gowling WLG provides comprehensive legal services for developers, contractors, and institutional clients across diverse sectors, specialising in PFI hand back, building safety, and international energy projects. Philip Baker heads the non-contentious side of the practice, using his extensive experience in advising on procurement strategy and project delivery for a wide array of real estate, construction, and engineering clients, including institutions, funders, and end-users. Principal associate Tarfa Ahmad guides developer and institutional investor clients on various construction projects and the construction aspects of investment acquisitions, while principal associate Hannah Daeche complements the team with her expertise in providing transactional advice to a diverse clientele in the real estate, construction, and engineering sectors.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Environment
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Water
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Health and safety
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Real estate > Planning
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Transport > Rail
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Real estate > Social housing: finance
- Industry focus > TMT
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport