Nigel leads our environmental practice and specialises in environmental law.
He has a broad range of experience advising corporate, commercial real estate and energy and infrastructure clients on the environmental aspects of transactions, regulatory issues and disputes.
Advising household-name clients on negotiating the environmental risks in corporate and M&A transactions in the heavy industrials and other manufacturing sectors, including numerous FTSE 100 companies and international conglomerates on a variety of £bn+ acquisitions and disposals.
Advising our leading investment funds clients, such as Alchemy and Caledonia Investments, and their portfolio companies, on a wide mix of transactions – for example, recently, in relation to the UK holiday parks sector, including the corporate sales of Parkdean Resorts and Park Holidays.
Acting for our major commercial real estate clients, for example Legal & General and Berkeley Homes, on high profile acquisitions, disposals, investments in and developments of various brownfield sites in and around London and rest of the UK (former industrial sites, gasworks, etc.).
Advising on significant disputes, including involving large infrastructure projects, for example acting as the instructing solicitor on behalf of a major UK utility at a public inquiry dealing with its test case permit appeals relating to a disputed £bn+ wastewater improvement works programme.
Long-standing advisor to industrial site operators, commercial property managers, institutional investors and lenders and private landowners in relation to all relevant areas, for example contaminated land risk, climate change and energy efficiency regulation, noise nuisance, environmental and operational permitting, waste management and producer responsibility laws.
"Nigel Price is very analytical, whilst providing user-friendly and commercially minded advice, easy to cooperate with and has great communication skills."
The UK Legal 500 2023