TFT Edinburgh makes first promotion to partner on first anniversary
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Alan Pemberton
Alan is Chairman and is responsible for all financial and business performance related matters at TFT. His technical areas of expertise are change and people management, business strategy and planning, technical due diligence, development management and project monitoring.
He is also a member of the RICS Tall Buildings Fire Safety Working Group and the Cranfield 50 – a network of leading entrepreneurs. Alan is the key account partner for The Crown Estate which includes the recent completion of Rushden Lakes, a £200m retail and leisure scheme and is currently involved in the strategic development of the land to the west of the Rushden Lakes site.
Other notable projects include the construction of a new hospital at the Queen Elizabeth II site in Birmingham.
Neil Wotherspoon
Neil’s areas of expertise are development monitoring, technical due diligence (TDD) and dilapidations. He also has a keen interest in sustainability. He is a Senior Director, head of TFT’s Edinburgh office and part of the firm’s TDD and dilapidations working party. He is a member of the Scottish Property Federation Building Standards and Sustainability Committees.
Neil's prominent clients include Nuveen, APG, Tishman Speyer, Aviva, Steinhoff, Tesco, Legal and General, Amber Infrastructure and Homebase.
Neil’s principal instruction is the Project Monitoring of St James Quarter, Edinburgh, a mixed-use development in the heart of Edinburgh on behalf of the investors, APG and Nuveen. Neil’s involvement started at the construction contract stage in October 2016. The leisure and retail element of the development is due for completion in Spring 2021 with the other elements (Hotel, Residential, Cinema and Aparthotel) due for completion in Autumn 2022. Development costs are in the region of £1billion and comprise 850,000sq ft of retail, 214 room Hotel, Cinema, Aparthotel and 152 Residential Apartments.
Neil Wotherspoon from TFT's Edinburgh office has been promoted to Technical Partner. TFT Edinburgh was launched 12 months ago by Neil who joined TFT from AECOM. Since that time, the team has grown fourfold serving clients in Edinburgh and across Scotland and the North East of England including Screwfix, Tesco, Royal Bank of Scotland and Aviva Investors.Alan Pemberton, Managing Partner, Tuffin Ferraby Taylor, said:
Neil’s promotion is well-deserved. He not only launched TFT Edinburgh but has seen its client base grow, expanded the team and increased our presence in Edinburgh’s strong commercial property market. One of Neil’s major strengths is his high-level client servicing that works alongside strong technical capability. It’s a pleasure to see this promotion come about only one year after his appointment.
Neil Wotherspoon, Technical Partner, Tuffin Ferraby Taylor, said:
With a robust construction sector and a fast-paced transactional market, Scotland is in a healthy position to capitalize on this type of market. I’m delighted to be continuing to play my part in TFT’s success here in Edinburgh.
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