KEITH DAVIDSON

Keith has 30 years’ experience providing environmental liability advice in transactions and brownfield development projects. Former head of the LexisNexis environment team, Keith drafted toolkits and industry standard environment precedents for UK property and corporate transactions.

Work Highlights

• Development: Acted for the University of Birmingham on the acquisition of a highly contaminated site in Edgbaston from Birmingham City Council and the construction of a new Life Sciences Campus by Bruntwood.

• Chemicals: Acted for Bluewater Private Equity on the management-backed buyout of the px group by U.S investors Ara partners and Aksiom Group which includes Saltend Chemicals Park in Hull.

• Waste: Advised on several acquisitions for hazardous waste operator Trade be, including Scotoil and the Fawley High Temperature Incinerator near Southampton that accepts low-level radioactive waste.

• Media: Acted for the owners of the iconic Bray Film Studios in Windsor on the sale to Amazon Prime.

• Health care: Acted on the sale of Priory Group hospitals to Waterland Private Equity for £1.1b.

• Defence: Acted for Defence Infrastructure Organisation on the sale and environmental liability transfer of MOD sites to St. Modwen and other national developers.

• Agricultural: Acted for the Wellcome Trust on the acquisition of Co-operative Group’s farm business for £249m.

• Transport: Acted for DB Schenker in a successful claim after its oil plc tenant polluted a storage facility serving Heathrow.

• Airports: Acted for Manchester Airport Group on the acquisition of East Midlands Airport.

• Local authorities: Acted for St Helens Borough Council on contaminated land enforcement action against a glass manufacturer. Acted for South Ribble Borough Council in contaminated lad proceedings against BMW.