William Gay
UK Guide 2025
Band 4 : Real Estate: £50-150 million
Band 4
About
Provided by William Gay
Practice Areas
Real estate
Development
Planning
Tax
Real estate tax
Career
William is a leader in the fields of residential development, strategic land and urban regeneration and extensions. He is also a partner of Osborne Clarke and leads our Developer Sub-Sector.
William has specialised in acting for land promoters, housebuilders and landowners on large scale residential developments, urban extensions, regeneration schemes and residential led mixed use development across the UK for over 15 years.
A recognised expert in strategic land, his work includes promotion agreements, tax efficient collaboration agreements and equalisation agreements for strategic land and urban extensions alongside development agreements with public bodies for regeneration schemes and option agreements and overage arrangements for residential development sites.
William's clients include Welbeck Strategic Land, Ptarmigan Strategic Land, Landform Strategic Land, Taylor Wimpey plc, Barratt Developments plc and McLaren Living.
Chambers Review
UK
William Gay has considerable expertise in real estate development, particularly residential-led schemes, handling strategic land acquisitions and other key transactions and negotiations. He represents a number of national house builders as well as landowners and land promoters.