Juan Lopez Email & Phone Number

Legal 500 & Chambers and Partners ranked: “commercially aware”, “extremely professional and diligent”, an “accessible and tenacious practitioner who has achieved some spectacular results” and “a relaxed and clear style”. Bar practitioner since 2002.Specialising in:Infrastructure and Planning: energy, renewables and transportation schemes, housing, regeneration, iconic development, and costal & marine defence.Environment: consenting, permitting & enforcement, EIA/SEA, Habitats, contaminated land and waste, water and sewerage, air quality, nuisance, and agriculture (UK farm hub management and sustainability).Compulsory Purchase & Compensation: CPOs, T&WAOs (acquiring authorities and objectors); Compensation (both before UT(LC) and CAADs), impacts of necessary and implied electricity wayleaves, highways and rail infrastructure works, other injurious affection, trespass, blight, ransom, and land valuation.Highways & Rights of Way: highway failures, obstructions and repair, nationally strategic traffic/vehicle management systems, UK cycling network development, and DMMOs (creation, diversion, extinguishment).Energy - disputes and litigation: energy suppliers and energisation (I/DNOs), specialising in renewables (including network connection agreements, on-/off-site PPAs, distribution network infrastructure), gas transportation networks, transmission AGIs, network code rights, electricity Capacity Market (post Tier 1)/NGESO decision-making, infrastructure wayleave agreements and injurious affection, advising on enforcement and regulation under the Gas and Electricity Acts, Codes and Licences (Ofgem and Energy Ombudsman), in arbitration and ad hoc mediation, and before tribunals.Construction & Commercial - disputes and litigation: construction failures, defective repairs, asbestos, developer and surety liability, estate contracts, overage, options, and riparian rights. Experience across domestic and international seats (EU, Southeast Asia, UAE), in arbitration and before tribunals (including TCC and ChD).Environmental & Land Taxation (UK FTT and UT): landfill Tax (LOI testing, cell buffer layering, temporary infrastructure, quarry and dredging exemptions, organic waste), UK Climate Change Levy, and UK CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (fuel exemptions and capital allowance discounting).https://www.39essex.com/barrister/juan-lopez/