Barry Sully > Browne Jacobson LLP > Nottingham, England > Lawyer Profile

Browne Jacobson LLP
MOWBRAY HOUSE
CASTLE MEADOW ROAD
NOTTINGHAM
NG2 1BJ
England

Work Department

Property.

Career

Barry is the head of our nationwide Built Environment team. Both of the main legal directories – Legal 500 and Chambers – have ranked him as a leading lawyer in real estate and development projects, in every edition for more than a decade.

Barry has almost 30 years’ experience dealing with property development, options and promotion agreements, urban regeneration, complex site assembly, social housing projects, mixed use schemes and development joint ventures.

Acting for developers, housing associations, local authorities and landowners, Barry understands the priorities and perspectives of each of these sectors (or is a “poacher turned gamekeeper” as one client likes to describe him). In an era of greater partnering between sectors, Barry uses this experience to help clients find workable solutions. He knows what the market will and will not accept; what works and what doesn’t.

Trained Rotheras (now Rothera Dowson) 1991-1994; qualified 1993; Metcalfe Copeman & Pettefar, Peterborough 1994-96; Eversheds, Nottingham 1996-2007; Browne Jacobson, Nottingham partner 2007.

Memberships

Law Society.

Education

Parkview Comprehensive, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria; Nottingham University (1990 LLB Honours).

Leisure

Travelling, film, real ale.

Lawyer Rankings

East Midlands > Real estate > Commercial property: Nottingham and Derby

(Leading partners)

Barry SullyBrowne Jacobson LLP

Browne Jacobson LLP is at the forefront of the commercial property market, continuing to be sought out by private, public, and third sector clients on high-value and complex projects within the area, with names such as Sanctuary Housing, Frasers Group, and LVMH Group among its client roster.  Helming the practice is Sarah Parkinson, a seasoned real estate advisor who specialises in retail and property development projects. Barry Sully lends his development disposals and acquisition expertise to landowners, developers, local authorities, and housing association clients, while property development and strategic land transactions are a common feature of Robert Wofinden ‘s caseload. Suki Tonks chiefly focuses her practice on the retail and leisure industries, where she advises on lease negotiations, acquisitions, disposals, and property management. Matthew Kemp joined the team in November 2025.

East Midlands > Real estate > Social housing

Social housing remains at the forefront of Browne Jacobson LLP’s portfolio of real estate work, with an enviable client base of major housing associations, as well as clients seeking to operate or do business within the social housing segment. Spearheading the social housing practice, Gabor Taller is a trusted advisor to major national housing associations and developer clients, regularly taking the lead on the securitisation of housing, whereas Barry Sully has extensive residential development capabilities. On the litigation front, Victoria Curran handles housing condition and injunction claims for housing associations and local authorities, and Holly Chadwick is predominantly engaged by registered providers and local authorities on the acquisition of complex development sites.