Construction
United Kingdom
29 August 2025
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner's environment practice excels in regulatory, transactional, and contentious matters, focusing on chemical regulations, contaminated land, biodiversity net gain, and carbon projects. Christian Drage advises on planning and major infrastructure projects. Nick Harding handles complex environmental issues, including contaminated land, waste, and chemical regulations, also managing real estate environmental considerations. Sam Levy also focuses on environmental issues, particularly the REACH regulation, habitat assessments, and contaminated land. Madeleine Lofchy specialises in town and country planning and environmental advice for real estate developments.
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‘A new team at a great firm. Exceptional development of staff and exciting to see where they can go.’
'Nick Harding provides great client support.'
Key clients
- One Investment Management LLC
- Unite Group Plc
- Thames Water
- National Grid
- Landsec
- Angel Trains
- Angle Property
- BlackRock
- Chancerygate
- Canary Wharf Group
Work highlights
Acts for Angel Trains on a wide variety of environmental matters, including recent work on battery train testing.
Acted for a US private equity investor on the acquisition of two of the UK’s largest holiday parks, comprising around 4,300 pitches, to seed a new £500m platform
Acted for Tristan Capital regarding the acquisition of Cody Technology Park, a 407 acre defence, science and technology park in Farnborough, Hampshire
Practice head
Christian Drage; Nick Harding
Other key lawyers
Sam Levy; Madeleine Lofchy