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New equity partner for Lodders’ Real Estate

Commercial and residential property and land development specialist, Mark Miller, has joined Midlands and South West law firm Lodders as an equity partner in the firm’s expanding Real Estate team.

Formerly a partner and head of the Real Estate Development team at Warwickshire firm Wright Hassall, Mark (pictured left) has been involved in property development transactions for over 15 years and brings a range and level of experience and skills acting for landowners, developers, investors and end users including large national and multinational organisations.

Alongside carving a niche for his strategic land work, Mark has also developed expertise in the renewable energy markets, notably onshore wind turbine and large scale ground mounted Solar PV Schemes.

“Mark has an impressive pedigree and scope of experience from his work on numerous complex and substantial commercial and residential property development matters,” says Paul Mourton, head of Lodders’ Real Estate team, which was awarded the highest Tier 1 ranking in the latest, 2016 edition of The Legal 500.

“He has particular experience of negotiating large-scale strategic land development matters and is one of only a handful of legal specialists in the region with the knowledge and associated advisory skills for this niche area, being widely recognised and respected for this expertise by both landowners and their land agents.

“These skills and experience represent not only a senior-level addition to Lodders’ Real Estate team and firm as a whole, but they also perfectly complement our existing work with many of the UK’s largest and most active house-builders, as well as our specialist teams working with landowners and operating in the agricultural and wider real estate sectors.”

Mark has experience of all manner of developments from manufacturing and processing plants, office headquarters, sport and educational establishments, to care homes, residential schemes, supermarkets and renewable energy installations.

In recent years, Mark has advised on numerous high profile large development transactions across the Midlands area and further afield, from major new settlements and mixed use schemes through to residential led schemes in rural, village-based locations.

Commenting on joining Lodders as an equity partner, Mark Miller said: ““The opportunity to join a firm with such an enviable client base and reputation is rare. This, together with the broad nature of work undertaken by the firm and the huge potential to develop my career further, was really very attractive.

“I am looking forward to consolidating my sector specific experience, with my general commercial and residential development knowledge and otherwise to undertaking a broad and rounded role at Lodders,” he says, “and as a member of an established, successful, growing and busy team.”

Before joining Wright Hassall in 2004, Mark was a Senior Associate in the Commercial Property team of Birmingham firm The Wilkes Partnership, where he specialised in commercial property work, prior to which he was an Assistant Solicitor at Pinsent Masons in Birmingham and was involved in major projects.

Celebrating its 230th anniversary this year, Lodders has 25 partners, a portfolio of sector and market specific legal teams, over 130 fee earners and support staff across its office network, and has recorded year-on-year growth in recent years.

It is an established and thriving law firm based in Stratford upon Avon, Cheltenham and Henley in Arden, and is recognised as a leading private client law firm, offering specialist advice to both private individuals and privately owned businesses, including its highly regarded work in the agricultural and real estate sectors. For more information, visit: www.lodders.co.uk.

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