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Huw Evans

Legal Director

Huw is a Legal Director on the Real Estate team, Cardiff, mainly focusing on transport and infrastructure clients.

He joined the Cardiff Core Real Estate team at Eversheds Sutherland as a newly qualified lawyer in 2005.

Huw specializes in property and property-related finance transactions until he took the opportunity of going on secondment, in-house, to Network Rail Infrastructure Limited in 2011 before joining Network Rail as Legal Counsel.

He rejoined the Cardiff Core Real Estate team at Eversheds Sutherland in 2013.

Having gained experience of regulated railway and infrastructure projects, the main focus of Huw’s work since returning to Eversheds Sutherland has been transport and infrastructure clients, including the Department for Transport, High Speed Two (HS2) Limited, Highways England, London & Continental Railways, Transport for London, and Thames Water Utilities Limited.

In addition to this public sector speciality, Huw has also acted for a number of private and international clients, including Legal & General, HSBC, Indeed, Amazon and Royal Bank of Scotland on all aspects of property-related matters in the UK.

Huw currently leads a team that has acquired over 5,000 residential, commercial and agricultural properties affected by the HS2 project.

He is also the Cardiff Real Estate lead for the Thames Water client service team.

Over his career, Huw has presented a number of seminars on the acquisition of property pursuant to CPO Schemes, their onward management, and the use of both statutory and discretionary acquisition schemes.

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Huw Evans

Legal Director

Huw Evans

Legal Director

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