About
Thomas is a senior associate in the firm’s Real Estate team, having joined the firm in 2015. He represents corporate and institutional clients, as well as partnerships and private individuals, across a broad range of transactional real estate services.
His main focus is on transactions within the food and farming sector but he also advises on general and commercial real estate matters, particularly in relation to transactions involving the development of land for renewable energy and infrastructure projects.
Experience
- The Crown Estate: Advising on the sale of numerous freehold properties, including sales forming part of the larger estate disposals at Gospall and Taunton.
- A development company in the industrial and logistics sector: Advising the company over a number of years in connection with the development of formerly agricultural land as a major business park.
- A private equity fund: Acting for the fund on the real estate elements of its corporate acquisition of a soft fruits producer which owns significant areas of glasshouses and agricultural land in southern England.
- A vertical farming company: Acting for the company in the real estate elements of its acquisition and development of brownfield land in Kent as a vertical farming facility.
- The agricultural companies of a family office: Leading on the acquisition by the companies of a large commercial agricultural estate in the east of England for c.£18.6 million.
Credentials
- Admitted as a solicitor: England & Wales (2012)