Blake Morgan LLP has a strong track record in construction matters across the energy, retail, and banking sectors. The team is co-led by Richard Wade, Joanna Rees, and Simon Lewis, and Wade is highly proficient in construction contract drafting and property agreements. Lewis leads on construction disputes, and Owen Williams is well versed in transactional work. Gemma Hill is a key team members.
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- Industry knowledge, customer knowledge, experience, and local market knowledge.
- Competence, empathy, intellect, ability to discuss various options, and long-term strategic thinking.
- Very good at working to the timescales required for the nature of our business. Strong at providing different options for responses to queries. Partners and their team provide very professional and user-friendly customer service. They collaborate well internally across teams and divisions.
- Richard Wade (Non-con Partner) - very accommodating, knowledgeable, calm under tight deadlines, and very personable. Simon Lewis (Contentious Partner) - very pragmatic and applies real-world/negotiation impacts into advice, knowledgeable, calm under tight deadlines, and very personable. Rebecca Munday (Senior Solicitor) - very organized and stands as the go-to person in BM at the operational level for managing the holistic status of works.
Key clients
- Premier Inns
- Whitbread
- Diamond Light Source Limited
- Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
- Racing Bulls S.P.A
- Wolfson College
- Dover District Council
- Pembroke College
Work highlights
Advised Premier Inns on various issues regarding tall buildings and ACM cladding.
Acting for a number of clients (mainly property management companies) across circa 150 sites in relation to fire safety issues, both relating to external façade products installed in breach of Building Regulations (including ACM, High Pressure Laminate, External Wall Render, and timber) as well as internal defects such as defective fire stopping and fire doors.
Advising Diamond Light Source Limited on a number of projects, including the replacement of the roof to main Synchrotron building at Harwell, Oxfordshire.
Lawyers
Leading partners
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Next generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Leading associates
Leading associates with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Blaise Joubert
Practice head
Richard Wade; Joanna Rees; Simon Lewis
Other key lawyers
Owen Williams; Gemma Hill