Richard Birks

Company: Eversheds
Position: Partner

Biography Richard Birks is a partner in the UK-based Eversheds’ projects and infrastructure team, splitting his time between its Doha and London offices. He specialises in infrastructure and regeneration projects with particular emphasis on the transport and health sectors.

Birks advises on all aspects of real-estate development and investment and has experience in major infrastructure projects, acting for sponsors, authorities and funders. He also has expertise in acquisitions and disposals, acting for funds and institutional investors as well as international transactions.

Birks recently advised on a QR4.5bn ($1.3bn) development project in Doha and has also worked on a subsea pan-Gulf telecoms deal. He joined Eversheds in November 2006 from the UK’s Allen & Overy. Birks graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1994 and was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1997.

Contact: (+974) 4 496 7385
Company website: www.eversheds.com