TLT strengthens infrastructure planning and renewable energy teams with double partner hire

Richard Marsh, who joins TLT from Broadfield (formerly BDB Pitmans), specialises in planning law and the authorisation of major infrastructure and commercial projects with a particular focus on renewable energy.

He has advised on more than 20 Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (requiring a Development Consent Order) under the Planning Act 2008 across multiple sectors, including on energy (such as large scale solar, battery storage, wind, Liquified Natural Gas facilities, sustainable aviation fuel and energy-from-waste projects), highways, aviation and business and commercial schemes.

During his nearly 20 years as a planning solicitor, he has also advised on a wide range of large-scale commercial projects, including football stadia, data centres, theme parks, shopping centres, offices, ports, train station development, residential towers and urban regeneration schemes.

Nadia Wheeler has meanwhile joined TLT from CMS, bringing ten years’ experience in advising clients on real estate, energy and infrastructure projects.

Wheeler is one of few lawyers in the UK to specialise in onshore and offshore wind projects, and co-located battery and solar schemes, TLT said.

She is also dual qualified in England and Wales, and Scotland, boosting TLT’s Scottish future energy capabilities and its cross-border services.   

Richard Marsh said: “The government’s ambitious targets for renewable energy and other infrastructure projects creates huge opportunities for our domestic and international clients. Clients will need robust and diverse legal teams capable of delivering all the legal requirements to take a project from inception to operation. At present, there is no better firm to provide that than TLT; and the immediate prospect of working on some of the most complex and high-profile infrastructure projects in the UK alongside leading real estate, corporate, finance, construction, regulatory and commercial teams is hugely exciting.”

Nadia Wheeler said: “We are approaching a critical moment for the future energy sector, with the government looking to deploy its Clean Power 2030 Action Plan followed by a drive to net-zero by 2050. Achieving these ambitious targets will require expert legal guidance and in-depth knowledge to support businesses embedded in the sector.  

“At such an important moment, there is nowhere better to be than at a firm which has been supporting the future energy sector since the very beginning. TLT has an outstanding reputation for its forward-thinking approach and deep sector expertise - I’m proud to now be part of it.”