MEET OUR TEAM

David Briggs

Sadly David passed away after battling a long illness and he is very much missed by his colleagues and clients alike.

If you need to contact our firm regarding any conveyancing matters please use the contact details below.

Office Line Telephone:   
+44 (0) 20 7823 0450

Nick Lane

PartNer

Nick studied Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, before qualifying as a barrister then solicitor. He specialises in all aspects of construction and engineering law, with a particular emphasis on dispute resolution. Before joining Decimus Fearon Nick was a partner at Olswang LLP and Mishcon de Reya LLP. Nick is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building, an editor of Pickavance on Delay and Disruption in Construction Contracts (4th ed, Sweet & Maxwell, 2010) and a co-author of the CIOB’s Time and Cost Management Contract Suite (rev. ed. 2015). Nick is also an occasional contributor to the industry press.

As well as drafting and negotiating construction contracts and documents, Nick has extensive experience of representing clients in most forms of ADR (including mediation), adjudication, expert determination, arbitration and litigation in the Technology and Construction Court. Nick’s particular strengths include advising on pursuing and defending claims concerning:

• Building and engineering contract final accounts and valuation issues

• Delay, extensions of time, liquidated damages and loss and expense

• Defects

• The construction aspects of agreements for lease, forward purchase agreements and development agreements

• Construction professional negligence

Office Line Telephone:   
+44 (0) 20 7823 0450

Faiza Lone

HEAD OF PRIVATE CLIENT DEPARTMENt

Faiza Lone qualified as a solicitor in 2001.  She joined Decimus Fearon in January 2008 as a Consultant to head the Private Client Department. Faiza was previously in charge of Private Client work at a leading London law firm (Ross & Craig Solicitors.)

Faiza specialises in the following work:

• Wills

• Trusts

• Administration of Estates

• Post Death variations of Estates

• Powers of Attorney

• Inheritance Tax

Office Line Telephone:   
+44 (0) 20 7823 0450