Michael Guy Email & Phone Number

North West UK

Heritage Trust for the North West is a thriving building preservation trust whose focus is as much on the people using heritage buildings as the properties themselves.The quality and composition of our heritage projects start from the earlier stages of archaeology, conservation architecture, investigative work, sympathetic building conservation and.

United Kingdom

HTN is a membership organisation run by people who have delivered amazing heritage projects across the UK and our mission is to help others do the same by offering peer to peer professional support. Since I joined the membership has doubled and we have been successfully awarded further grant support of over £1m.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• Principal advisor on all legal and governance matters for the organisation including regularly for Board (which I attend) and the Chief Executive.
• Chair of the senior leadership team (Strategy and Performance Group consisting of all other directors and heads of teams) for two years. We lead on the rollout of a new 10 year strategy, workforce and investment.
• Chair of the senior leadership team (Strategy and Performance Group consisting of all other directors and heads of teams) for two years. We lead on the rollout of a new 10 year strategy, workforce and investment.
• Responsibility for all legal, governance and information/data request processes and procedures in relation to the delivery of over £300m of lottery funding for the heritage sector per annum in addition to approximately.
• Frequent Stakeholder engagement including with grantees, other grant funding organisations and government such as the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Defra.
• Mediated a successful solution over the course of a year on a multimillion pound grant dispute between a devolved government and a national museum.

Manchester, United Kingdom

As Head of Legal for English Heritage I ensured the charity received high quality legal advice on a range of subjects from property transactions, commercial contracts, charity regulatory matters, governance and information rights to name but a few. This included advising on the Development Consent Order at Stonehenge for the tunnelling of the A303 and the.

Manchester, United Kingdom

I provide the national lead on legal advice for Heritage at Risk cases across the country. This is a high priority objective of Historic England's work with partners to reduce the number of assets on the Heritage at Risk list for positive reasons. It encompasses grant funding, enforcement, compulsory purchase, regeneration, planning, construction and.

Warrington

I was appointed to this position as a result of a statutory transfer from the NWDA and have continued to work on some of the same major project work which was transferred from NWDA. Combined with this has been a variety of new technical commercial, property and regulation advice as set out below. I have been given responsibility for the corporate entities.

• Major Projects - I provide and procure legal advice on major projects involving long term strategic planning for their successful delivery and ensuring the achievement of corporate objectives.
• Management - I have managed two legal contracts officers, mentored and supervised our property solicitor on certain projects, deputised for the Head of Legal as required on team management and administration team.
• Management - I have managed two legal contracts officers, mentored and supervised our property solicitor on certain projects, deputised for the Head of Legal as required on team management and administration team.
• Corporate governance - I provide legal advice to senior management up to Chair, Chief Executive and Board level on sensitive issues to mitigate risks and minimise liabilities.
• Government Reporting and Consent - I lead on the process for securing Secretary of State Consent for establishing new legal entities in accordance with statutory requirements and provide information and advice to.
• External Legal Panel - I instruct, monitor and control all external legal work carried out on projects driving efficiencies and best value and procuring a full panel of services across all specialisms.

• I represent the Agency on the steering group on the Kingsway project, a 420 acre mixed-use business park. Similarly, on Ancoats, a compulsory purchase regeneration scheme, I lead on the legal advice at Board level. I.
• Litigation expertise was demonstrated on a complex construction dispute. The High Court case on quasi-contractual equitable restitution involved 5 public body… Show more
• Litigation expertise was demonstrated on a complex construction dispute. The High Court case on quasi-contractual equitable restitution involved 5 public body defendants and 4 claimants. Prompt and proactive action.

• Assisting on the Housing Market Renewal Initiative at Sefton with extensive work on two compulsory purchase orders including going to inquiry and dealing with a statutory challenge.
• Drafting, negotiating and completing planning obligations such as one for Ellesmere Port and Neston BC for a new Audi centre including highways contributions and landscaping schemes.
• Providing advice and taking enforcement action on consent issues and breaches of conditions.
• Assisting on an… Show more
• Assisting on an Enforcement Notice Appeal and planning application for a metal sheer plant.
• Strategic Planning Advice provided for developer clients at Ashton Moss in Tameside and Thornfield Properties on the Rock in Bury.

• Planning
• Technology (Commercial IT, Contentious and Non Contentious IP)
• Commercial Litigation
• Environment

Real Estate (Investor Occupier Team)

Distinction - Diploma In Legal Practice

• Completed elective modules in Advanced Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property and Commercial Law in addition to the core modules and.

2.1 Dual Honours, Law And Business

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