Law firm Freeths strengthens Bristol team with strategic senior promotions

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Peter Davison

Michael Bray and Lottie Hugo

National law firm Freeths has promoted Michael Bray and Lottie Hugo to senior positions within the Bristol team.

Michael has been appointed to head of real estate in Bristol, following his promotion to partner in October 2022.

Michael is responsible for coordinating the Bristol and South West real estate team.

Michael remains Freeths’ national head of transport and national head of real estate clean energy waste and sustainability, bringing considerable experience in dealing with complex transactions in bus and rail, renewables, battery storage, natural capital and waste.

He advises some of the firm’s largest clients on major projects.

Lottie has been promoted to partner in the Bristol corporate team from April 2023, continuing her focus on providing tailored support on high-value complex private corporate deals for national and international clients and private equity portfolio companies with significant growth ambitions.

Adam Watson, managing partner of Freeths Bristol, said: “We are thrilled to bolster our regional team with these promotions.

"Both Michael and Lottie are invaluable members of the firm, and they have proven their dedication to consistently providing exceptional service to our clients.

"Both have a wealth of experience to bring to the table, and their new roles will see them play an even more critical role in the success of Freeths.”

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.