Legal appointment provides boost for
Schofield Sweeney projects team

Specialist commercial law firm Schofield Sweeney has strengthened its projects team with the appointment of Graham Shaw.

Graham joins Schofield Sweeney from Anthony Collins Solicitors in Birmingham with a wealth of experience in housing, regeneration, joint services and education projects.

Since qualifying as a solicitor in 2001, Graham has acted on behalf of a variety of clients from the private sector, local authorities and registered social landlords across a range of PFI and PPP schemes. He has also headed a thriving Education and Skills Group and Academies and Trust Schools practice where he advised a portfolio of academy sponsors and pathfinder schools.

Graham’s expertise in the education sector has led him to speak and write on a range of matters including articles on academies, regeneration and social inclusion for The Guardian website and the Social Market Foundation, school companies and Trust Schools, PFI and Building Schools for the Future.

At Schofield Sweeney Graham will be working with the Accent Group on its health and schools projects, its housing and commercial portfolios as well as with the Grosvenor House Group on the Durham and Derwentside NHS PFI. He will also be advising Operon as FM contractor on the Aberdeen School PFI and advising a bidder for the Jarvis portfolio of health, schools and other PFI schemes.

Schofield Sweeney Chairman Chris Schofield says: “Graham’s appointment comes at an important time for us, adding valuable resource to our projects team. He will work closely with other members of the team to foster the continued growth of the projects practice across the housing and regeneration, health and social care, education and leisure sectors. With Graham’s extensive experience we look forward to growing our offering in the education sector in particular.”

Graham says of his new position: “I was attracted to Schofield Sweeney because of its reputation as a successful and expanding commercial practice with a wide client base in a variety of sectors. I look forward to the exciting challenge of supporting the expanding projects portfolio and being part of the continued growth of the projects practice”.

August 2007