Roger Tym & Partners merges with Peter Brett Associates LLP and Baker Associates
April 2011
Peter Brett Associates LLP, Roger Tym & Partners and Baker Associates have merged to create one practice that provides planning, economic, regeneration and technical consultancy services across the full breadth of the development cycle.Peter Brett Associates LLP is the registered name of the newly-combined practice. It retains all three brands and continues to trade as Peter Brett Associates, Roger Tym & Partners and Baker Associates in its respective markets. These include housing, retail, employment, energy, infrastructure, regeneration and development.
Keith Mitchell, Chairman of Peter Brett Associates LLP, says: “In the context of the current market and the emerging localism agenda, we believe there is a need to bring planning and development strategies together within a robust economic and delivery framework. This is the core rationale for combining our consultancies: to focus on increasing the deliverability of regeneration and viable ways of bringing development and infrastructure forward.”
For Peter Brett Associates, the merger enables the practice to extend its technical regeneration, planning and economic skills base, creating new routes to market for its technical services. Through Roger Tym & Partners’ and Baker Associates’ roles as lead consultants, the practice can offer clients an expanded planning, economic and development service and strengthened presence in its regional markets and across the UK.
For Roger Tym & Partners and Baker Associates, the merger is an opportunity to couple their high value planning and economic advice with Peter Brett Associates’ technical services to serve a greater range of clients and sectors. It enables them to collaborate with colleagues who can contribute technical advice to their work, and help them follow through as they deliver.
Nora Galley, Cristina Howick, John Parmiter and Chris Quinsee from Roger Tym & Partners become Partners at Peter Brett Associates LLP; Dave Lawrence and Nick Skelton join as LLP Directors.
John Baker, a founder of Baker Associates, joins the combined practice as Partner.
Keith adds: “We are excited by the potential the merger brings for innovation. Having collaborated on diverse projects, we share a mutual respect and a common culture of independent thinking and entrepreneurialism.”
John Parmiter, Partner, says: “The agenda is now about delivery, efficiency and making projects work in challenging times. We see this merger as a way of delivering seamlessly a greater breadth of advice and more creative solutions.”
John Baker, Partner, says: “Our mix of skills offers a distinctive blend, which we feel clients will find attractive. Together with the increased scale and geographic coverage of services, we have significantly increased the resources we can offer to our clients.”
Coinciding with the combination of the three consultancies, Paul Reilly takes up the role of Managing Partner for Peter Brett Associates LLP, from 1 April, 2011. Paul succeeds Malcolm Cleaver, who steps down at the conclusion of his five-year term of office, during which he steered the practice through a period of unprecedented market change. Malcolm remains a partner of the firm, and looks forward to re-engaging with client teams and projects in the areas of civil engineering, energy and utilities.
