Giles Clifford

Giles Clifford is a highly experienced partner with more than twenty years' experience in helping clients to understand and manage risks, protect their interests and achieve their goals in the delivery of complex infrastructure and real estate development projects.

Giles heads our transport practice, which supports a wide variety of clients, many for whom transport is a core function, and others for whom interaction with the transport sector is sporadic. This group provides a co-ordinated group of legal specialists who are familiar with and committed to the sector.

With a particular specialism in rail stations and other transport-related development he derives much satisfaction from involvement in projects that lie at the heart of the economic and social functions of the urban environment.

Giles is also a leading member of our public sector team. His work is often at the interface between public and private sector worlds, and between commercial bodies and infrastructure operators and providers. Those involved often have very contrasting goals and mindsets. His appreciation of this has been helped by two significant secondments to major public sector clients and the experience of an earlier career in industry. Giles has seen a wide variety of projects that deal with those challenges, including both negotiating and supporting the operation of a significant number of PFI and PPP projects across a range of different sectors.

Giles has spoken publicly on a variety of legal subjects, including renewables project delivery, legal issues around the 'greening' of buildings, and the use of the contract as a risk management tool in complex projects, and runs the training programmes for the sector groups of which he is a member.

Clients

Giles' clients include Greater London Authority, London Underground, TfL and Crossrail, Ministry of Defence, National Highways (formerly Highways England), Transport for Greater Manchester and Bombardier Transportation.