Richard Willcox

Information about the specialist

richard.willcox@shoosmiths.co.uk

Practice Areas

Richard is a commercial property litigator, with a particular specialism in disputes arising under telecoms property law, acting predominantly for landowners and infrastructure providers.

Aside from telecoms, his practice consists of a mix of residential and commercial property development disputes and undertaking complex landlord and tenant asset management work for major high street retailers.

Recent work highlights include:

successfully removing telecoms operators from site earmarked for ?400 million campus redevelopment by higher education institution;

advising on the strategy and the steps required to exercise a conditional break option on a ?1.4 million pa central London retail unit;

obtaining a direction from Ofcom granting Code Powers to a provider of critical national infrastructure;

undertaking High Court proceedings, involving the complex interplay between mines and minerals and Inclosure Acts, in relation to a west London development site; and

acting for a charitable trust in a hostile 1954 Act dispute, seeking to recover vacant possession of a World War II heritage building for use as museum space.