TLT expands future energy and infrastructure expertise with new Partner appointment

National law firm TLT has appointed future energy and infrastructure planning specialist, Richard Marsh, as a Partner, further enhancing the firm’s position at the forefront of infrastructure planning advice in the UK.

Richard joins TLT from Broadfield (formerly BDB Pitmans) where he jointly led the firm’s energy sector practice. He specialises in planning law and the authorisation of major infrastructure and commercial projects with a particular focus on renewable energy.

Richard is regarded as one of the leading infrastructure planning lawyers in the UK. 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 (including 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. 

At TLT, Richard will work closely with the firm’s leading cross-practice Future Energy, Planning and Infrastructure teams, continuing the expansion of the firm’s strength and depth of service in this space and supporting the strategic growth of this practice area.

Richard’s appointment follows the arrival of Duncan O’Connor and Mustafa Latif-Aramesh in April and forms part of the broader growth of the firm’s Future Energy, Infrastructure, Public Law and Planning teams, which in October will complete the arrival of 29 new lawyers, to form one of the largest groups of its kind in the UK.  

Maria Connolly, partner and head of TLT’s future energy and real estate at TLT said: “The arrival of Richard adds even further to the sense of excitement around our Future Energy and Infrastructure sector practices, as they continue to grow and strengthen.“The UK Government’s recently revealed infrastructure strategy sets out ambitious measures to dismantle the remaining barriers to investment in the UK’s future energy sector and will lead to further opportunities for our clients. With Duncan O’Connor and Mustafa Latif-Aramesh having already arrived, Richard joining the team and with more still to come throughout the year, the future is bright for our practice.

Richard Marsh, Partner at TLT commented: “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.  TLT has set the bar for the legal profession in the future energy and infrastructure space for the past 25 years, and I have no doubt that will continue for the next 25 years and beyond.”