MONTAGU EVANS ELECTS NEW MANAGING PARTNER

Montagu Evans has announced Alan Harris as its new Managing Partner, following Rob Bower’s decision to retire from the Partnership on 31 March 2025 after ten years in the role.

Currently head of Montagu Evans’ Advisory Department, he will become the firm’s tenth Managing Partner since its founding in 1921. The appointment runs for an initial four-year term from 1 April 2025.

With a background in development consultancy and a focus on complex, mixed-use projects often in town centres, Alan works with local authorities, public bodies, developers and institutional investors, progressing regeneration programmes with a slant towards capital strategies. He has headed the Partnership’s town centre and public sector groups and helped develop the firm’s growth strategy including relocation to the City of London in 2019. He joined its Executive Committee in 2014 and was appointed Head of Advisory in 2022.

Rob Bower said: “Alan is a longstanding Partner at the firm and a proven leader of the business. He has already been a major part of our success and growth to date and is well-known across the industry. I’m delighted he is the Partnership’s next Managing Partner, and I look forward to watching the firm go from strength to strength over the next four years and beyond.

“Alan and I will now be working side-by-side until March 2025 – focussed on clients, Partners and staff to understand their priorities and focus on further growth and opportunity in the five years ahead. Meanwhile, it’s very much business as usual for our planning, advisory and transactional teams. Activity remains strong, and major instructions continue to come in as we strengthen our planning and development focus in both the public and private sectors.”

Alan Harris, incoming Managing Partner at Montagu Evans, said: “This is a fantastic business with exceptional people. From the day I set foot here 23 years ago, I have been proud to be part of its journey and growth.

“Rob has been an outstanding Managing Partner for the last decade and I’ve enjoyed working closely with him to help grow the Partnership.

“Being elected by my peers as the tenth Managing Partner is a great honour. I am truly proud to be given this opportunity to work with all our Partners to build on what we already have within the business and to capitalise on the ambition that I see every day across all generations of the Partnership.”

Longstanding clients of Montagu Evans include abrdn, Aviva Investors, Barratts, CBRE IM, Crown Estate, London Square, Regal London and SEGRO, as well as Homes England, the NHS, Network Rail, DIO, TfL and a number of London and UK-wide local authorities. The Partnership is currently advising on regeneration schemes including Camden Film Quarter; Bow Goods Yard, Orchard Wharf and Royal Albert Dock in East London; Festival Gardens in Liverpool, and other major sites nationwide – from estate regeneration to major new settlements. It has recently helped to secure planning approval for landmark sites, including the former WWII Kingsway Tunnels, significant new homes at Westfield London and major commercial space close to Stansted Airport, as well as providing historic environment and townscape consultancy for projects, including the Grade II listed gasholders repurposing in Bromley-by-Bow and Smithfield market in Birmingham.