In-house solicitor becomes head of legal
The Crown Estate has announced that existing in-house solicitor Rob Booth will become its head of legal. The appointment represents a direct replacement for Alex Peeke, who leaves in July.
Joining The Crown Estate in 2012 after eight years at City law firm, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, Rob has experience across a range of sectors including energy, infrastructure and commercial real estate. Since joining The Crown Estate, he has acted as the in-house lead for providing legal advice to the business’s energy and infrastructure portfolio.
In his new role, Rob will report directly to The Crown Estate’s director of business operations and general counsel, Vivienne King, who sits on the business’s management board. He will carry responsibility for the legal service across The Crown Estate’s £8.6bn business which includes Regent Street and much of St James’s in central London, the UK’s fifth largest portfolio of prime regional retail and leisure assets, around 340,000 acres of rural land, as well as the UK territorial seabed and around 50% of the nation’s foreshore.
Vivienne King says: “Rob has been an integral member of our team, providing outstanding expertise to one of the most dynamic and rapidly evolving parts of our business. With experience across our core business areas, I have no doubt he will continue the universally regarded standard of professionalism of our legal function to deliver a service which plays a key role in the future of our business.”
