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Roger is Lester Aldridge’s Chairman. He specialises in major development projects, including site acquisitions, financing, development agreements and construction documentation and disposals. He regularly advises on joint ventures and collaborations. Whilst dealing with a broad range of development projects, Roger has a particular interest in waterside developments, acting for a number of ports and marina operators, and the Healthcare sector. He deals with substantial and complex property transactions and property related projects on behalf of a range of client s across the UK.

Stuart is an Associate at Reed Smith, a leading internal law firm, specializing in Real Estate. He advises on a broad range of commercial real estate transactions but now has particular focus on acting for institutional investors (both on acquisitions and disposals) and advising finance providers. Stuart also has experience of acting for corporate real estate clients, property developers and energy companies.

Kathryn is an associate in the London office of Reed Smith LLP where she focuses on a broad range of corporate and commercial work and regularly advises on, and manages, large domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, particularly for clients in the real estate sector. Kathryn has recently worked with Reed Smith’s Real Estate Group on a number of property-related transactions, including sales and acquisitions of property-holding SPVs and the establishment of property joint ventures.

James is a partner in the firm's Europe & Middle East Corporate Group, based in London. James focuses on a broad range of corporate finance and company/commercial transactions, including cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, alliances, joint ventures and equity issues for public and private clients and dealing with commercial contracts and related work, particularly for clients in the media and technology, energy and natural resources and real estate sectors.

Tom is an experienced planning lawyer who deals with a wide range of planning issues, both contentious and non-contentious, on behalf of developer clients – acting on a national basis for a number. Tom also has a niche practice dealing with operational agreements and consents for ports and marinas. Recent work includes negotiating a S106 agreement in respect of a mixed use development to comprise of a food store of 8,500 square feet, non-food retail units of up to 200,000 square feet and 1100 residential flats – and in doing so packaging the delivery of circa £6.5M of planning ben

After obtaining an honours degree in Estate Management from Reading University, Simon started his career working at Dron & Wright in the City of London. After working for Knight Frank and St Quintin (now CBRE), Simon commenced his own practice in 1993 with John Peiser, former senior partner of Fuller Peiser (now BNP Paribas).Simon specialises in property investment, development and valuation, primarily in the Central London market. His clients include Canary Wharf Group, Land Securities and the City of London Corporation. His office is in King Street, London EC2 opposite the Guildhall.