Expertise
Luke is a Partner in our construction and engineering team, specialising in non-contentious construction and engineering matters. He has significant expertise in both domestic and international construction and engineering projects. He has worked across a broad range of sectors including on real estate development (such as retail and town centre regeneration, office, leisure, residential, hotel and mixed use schemes), education, mining, manufacturing/industrials, waste and energy projects.
He advises on procurement strategies as well as the drafting and negotiation of development agreements, standard form and bespoke construction and engineering contracts, sub-contracts, supply agreements, professional appointments, guarantees, bonds and other ancillary construction documents.
Luke is listed as a "Leading Individual" for Non-Contentious construction in Legal 500. He is a joint head of the firm's Hotels and Leisure sector and the firm's Mining sector.
Luke is the Client Relationship Partner for Norlake Hospitality (owner of a number of Hoxton Hotels and Gleneagles), That Group, Village Hotels, Mothercare, Yorkshire Water, OCS Group, Lafarge Holcim/Aggregate Industries, GRS Roadstone, Breedon Group, Sonder, Heatherwick Studios and United Colleges Group. He is also a key adviser on construction matters to clients including Britvic, Associated British Foods, Travelodge, Marks & Spencer, HB Reavis, Nationwide Building Society, Middlecap, JTRE, Federated Hermes, Savills Investment Management, University of Greenwich and Royal Mail.
