Gareth Baker

Practice Areas

Gareth co-leads Acuity’s award-winning Cardiff Real Estate team alongside Steve Morris.

He has significant experience in leading high-profile real estate development projects, and specialises in the acquisition, disposal, letting and funding of real estate, including retail, industrial and office properties.

Gareth is an expert in strategic land acquisition and disposal, particularly acting for landowners and developers in joint venture and collaboration agreements across England and Wales.

Gareth has been the lead lawyer on Cardiff’s Central Square regeneration scheme since 2014. He initially assembled the entire site for client Rightacres, an innovative commercial property developer specialising in occupier-led property solutions for business, which recently won an award for its “Outstanding Contribution to Cardiff”.

Gareth is the key partner responsible for the development and disposal of Central Quay over the next five years and is the key partner contact for several major clients including Rightacres, PMG Group, Jones Bros, ABP, Wild Water Group and South Wales Land Developments Limited.

Expertise:

- Real estate deals and transactions – acquisitions, disposals and lettings in particular inner-city redevelopment and regeneration

- Complex forward funding deals with institutional pension funds and other real estate finance structures

- Joint venture and land assembly transactions involving numerous multi-party agreements

- BTR