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Acuity Law Offices

Acuity Law
3 ASSEMBLY SQUARE
BRITANNIA QUAY, CARDIFF BAY
CARDIFF
CF10 4PL
United Kingdom
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Gareth Baker

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Work Department

Real Estate

Position

Gareth is a Partner in our Real Estate Team.

Gareth co-leads Acuity’s award-winning Cardiff Real Estate team alongside Steve Morris. He has significant experience in leading high-profile real estate development projects, and specialises in the acquisition, disposal, letting and funding of real estate, including retail, industrial and office properties.

Gareth is an expert in strategic land acquisition and disposal, particularly acting for landowners and developers in joint venture and collaboration agreements across England and Wales.

Gareth has been the lead lawyer on Cardiff’s Central Square regeneration scheme since 2014. He initially assembled the entire site for client Rightacres, an innovative commercial property developer specialising in occupier-led property solutions for business, which recently won an award for its “Outstanding Contribution to Cardiff”.

Gareth is the key partner responsible for the development and disposal of Central Quay over the next five years and is the key partner contact for several major clients including Rightacres, PMG Group, Jones Bros, ABP, Wild Water Group and South Wales Land Developments Limited.

Expertise:

  • Real estate deals and transactions – acquisitions, disposals and lettings in particular inner-city redevelopment and regeneration
  • Complex forward funding deals with institutional pension funds and other real estate finance structures
  • Joint venture and land assembly transactions involving numerous multiparty agreements
  • BTR

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Wales > Real estate > Commercial property

(Leading partners)

Gareth Baker – Acuity Law

The ‘committed, flexible and very knowledgeable’ team at Acuity Law provides ‘commercially-sensitive and business-focused’ advice to stakeholders on development, leasing and regeneration matters in Wales and England. Cornerstone developer client Rightacres continues to inform a significant volume of the Wales-based deal flow, with many of the partners in the group involved in past or current projects for the client. Team head Gareth Baker has been at the forefront of this longstanding relationship and has been the lead lawyer for the developer in relation to its high-profile Central Square regeneration scheme for almost a decade, as well as in other key projects within the capital. Damien Cann has also been very active for Rightacres on the funding front, as well as offering niche experience within the healthcare sector. Appreciated for his ‘commercially-focused, clear and timely’ advice, which encompasses real estate and planning expertise, Steve Morris has a leading reputation among developers, investors and lenders on the development of commercial and residential schemes in Wales and England. Ben Honour is also recommended, as is recently promoted partner Liz Gibbons, who has ‘extensive in-depth knowledge’, particularly as it relates to social housing-related work.

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