Darren Rogers - Legal
​Darren is a highly experienced Real Estate lawyer with over 16 years of experience working across the built environment industry. He has particular expertise in capital markets transactions, major City of London lettings, real estate finance, joint ventures and large scale mixed use development work.  As an illustration he has represented British Land across their principal office campuses of Broadgate, Regent's Place and the Leadenhall Building and Invesco Real Estate in relation to their large scale UK transactional work.
In his role as Head of Asian Capital Markets, Darren represents a number of capital investors, headlined by China Life, China Investment Corporation, Poly Real Estate, Far East Organisation and Cindat Capital, working closely with them to invest in major City of London office buildings, super-prime residential and student housing development.
Darren is ranked as a leading individual within Chambers 2016, Big Ticket Real Estate.

Darren Rogers
Legal

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​Communications Strategy

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Consulting - Government & Legal

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Stephen Sorrell
Stephen is the senior partner for real estate for Eversheds LLP. Stephen had a lead involvement in the legacy delivery of the Olympic venues in the Olympic Park, including the legacy disposal of the Olympic Stadium and the facilities management and legacy operation of the other Olympic venues in the Olympic Park. He was also a Trustee of the Development Trust of the Manchester Art Gallery from 2000-2010 and helped to oversee the re-opening of the gallery with its new wing and the raising of £1m to meet the funding gap for the project.

Stephen is a Trustee of Greater Manchester Arts Company (GMAC), the organisation combining Cornerhouse and Manchester Library Theatre and bringing forward a £25m public-funded cultural hub building to provide a multi-arts platform for film, theatre and visual arts.

Richard Birks
Richard is a Partner at Eversheds LLP, specialising in domestic and international major real estate development, joint ventures, project finance and infrastructure projects.

Richard's work has included advising the preferred bidder on three current public-sector procurements for health and mixed-use development projects, the public sector in a major Blue Light project, and a £70m mixed-use health scheme in the North-West, the Northern Ireland Government on the regeneration of the iconic Maze prison and surrounding Long Kesh estate, the Trust in the £1 billion redevelopment of Barts and the Royal London Hospital, and the LDA on the infrastructure arrangements being put in place at the Olympic Park to serve the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Eversheds LLP
An international law firm headquartered in London. In 2010 it achieved total revenues of £439.2 million, making it the ninth-largest UK-based law firm.