My daily tasks include negotiating land, development and regeneration projects, (including the joys of site visits in hard hats and toe-capped boots), and advising on corporate and constitutional issues.

I contribute to journal articles and publications produced by Lewis Silkin, and in client specific seminars.

Acting for a local authority working in partnership with an SL and private developer in arrangements for a long term phased regeneration of a council estate involving decanting and demolishing current buildings, provision of new affordable social housing with cross subsidies from private sales and issues relating to financing the project . I regularly advise RSLs on setting up new organisations within corporate groups and creation of groups through mergers and bringing in other members. I also advise RSLs on their arrangements for involving tenants in the decision-making process, including changing constitutional procedures or outright transfers of housing to tenant-member co-operatives. I negotiate planning agreements, ensuring a local authority's requirement for affordable housing is satisfied, without prejudicing the development programme or developer clients' commercial and financial targets. My work in this area has included some innovative arrangements for off-site provision.

I work with a broad range of clients, including long-established high-profile charitable housing trusts, RSLs set up to take over local authority housing, local authorities and national house builders.

MA in Jurisprudence (Oxford University) LLM in Welfare Law (Leicester University) Law Society Solicitors' professional qualification

I have lived in south London for many years. On the "cultural" side, I enjoy theatre and opera. Vacations are often foreign adventures (especially visiting my sister in various parts of Africa), sailing and skiing holidays. I also enjoy good food and wine, at home and abroad, and the season of home-grown vegetables.