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Built environment

Combining in-depth sector knowledge with technical legal excellence, our built environment lawyers provide exceptional advice to support at each stage of a building’s lifecycle.

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Our award-winning, multi-disciplinary built environment team provides comprehensive support for developers, investors, owners, funders, occupiers and the public sector when developing, investing in, occupying, funding, or maintaining real estate assets – both within the UK and offshore.

With a large team of dedicated built environment lawyers qualified across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, we deliver expert advice regardless of location or project scale.

Our expertise spans the entire lifecycle of real estate assets, drawing together experts from our real estate (including corporate real estate), construction, planning, tax, litigation, environmental and finance teams.

By collaborating closely with our energy, net zero, transport, public sector and infrastructure groups, we help to future-proof our clients’ assets, ensuring compliance with evolving regulations, maximising project value while mitigating risks.

Whilst we advise on all assets, we have particular expertise in logistics, hotels, offices, residential (including built to rent and student accommodation) and large-scale regeneration projects.

We also provide support to our clients’ operational businesses, offering specialist advice on corporate mergers and acquisitions, competition, employment, pensions, data privacy, and other regulatory matters (including building safety).

Sector expertise

Burges Salmon team providing legal services for large-scale development and regeneration projects in the UK.

Development and regeneration

Providing comprehensive legal services across the UK for high-profile development and regeneration projects, from inception to completion.

Development and regeneration
A team of legal experts providing tailored advice on Facilities Management to optimise estates and meet strategic goals.

Facilities management

Explore our expertise in facilities management. Optimise your facilities with expert legal support across diverse estates.

Facilities management
Expert legal services in investment and capital markets by Burges Salmon.

Investments and capital markets

Providing comprehensive real estate investment and capital market legal services, we offer tailored advice to protect our clients’ investments from risk, helping to maximise their value. 

Investments and capital markets
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Real estate finance

Providing specialist expertise on real estate finance across a range of asset classes.

Real estate finance
Corporate occupiers receiving expert legal advice on lease agreements and strategic office relocations.

Tenants and corporate occupiers

Offering tailored legal expertise for tenants and corporate occupiers across all major industries, with particular expertise in office headquarter moves.

Tenants and corporate occupiers
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Our team

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Examples of our work

Tritax Big Box REIT

Advising the UK’s largest listed investor in high-quality logistics warehouse assets, on the real estate aspects of its £5 billion portfolio.

Tristan Capital Partners

Advising on a significant refinancing of a 127,000 sq ft BREEAM excellent-rated office asset, part of the Westfield shopping centre in London.

Virgin Group

Advising on the acquisition and fit-out of a new HQ at Whitfield Studios, a 21,000 sq ft workspace in the iconic former recording studios in Fitzrovia, London.

Indurent

Advising on industrial developments across the UK, providing real estate, planning, construction and dispute resolution support.

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Advising on the procurement and mobilisation of a Dynamic Purchasing System worth £1.5 billion, for facilities management services across the FCDO’s global estate of 5,000 properties.

Greater London Authority

Advising on numerous housing-led, mixed-use redevelopment and regeneration projects across London, including several sites in Royal Docks, London, with a total GDV over £3 billion.

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What others say

“Sound and comprehensive knowledge, good strategic thinking, quick to respond and reliable. ”

Legal 500, UK 2025

“The team at Burges Salmon provide an excellent service throughout and are a pleasure to deal with at all levels. As a client I have full confidence in their abilities and professionalism to manage all that I ask of them.”

Legal 500, UK 2025

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