Steer Davies Gleave strengthens technical advisory team

Steer Davies Gleave is delighted to announce the recruitment of another high calibre expert with global engineering credentials. Paul Hollingsworth, joins Steer Davies Gleave to lead technical due diligence in roads, railways, airports and developments. He works alongside SDG’s feasibility and technical services advisory team, which is headed by recent recruit Julian Sindall.  Steer Davies Gleave’s new technical and engineering offer extends its highly reputed traffic and revenue advisory capability.

Paul Hollingsworth: Former Director of Rail Management at Atkins, Paul is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers who has worked in the transportation industry for 45 years. Paul has supervised three large motorway contracts in Kuwait, was the engineer for the Black Country Route, directed railway design on Proof House Junction and Euston Remodelling on the West Coast Main Line in the UK, and the feasibility study for the 500km Košice to Vienna broad-gauge railway through Slovakia. Paul has specialised in due diligence of railways, roads, airports and developments since 1989 heading technical advisory teams on such deals as the acquisition of Arlandabanan in Sweden, Lenders’ Technical Advisor on Coentunnel in The Netherlands, Oosterweel and Antwerp Tram Brabo 1 in Belgium, LGV Tours à Bordeaux and GSM-R throughout France, Poceirão-Caia RAVe in Portugal and Aéroport Blaïse Diagne in Senegal. He was the acquirer’s advisor for Battersea Power Station and Birmingham Airport and the vendor’s advisor on Channel Tunnel Rail Link-South and subsequently on High Speed 1 in the UK.

Paul brings a multi-disciplinary approach to due diligence of major infrastructure projects working closely with clients and their advisors and other stakeholders to identify risk mitigation measures and quantify risk while providing a totally objective and independent review.

See our recent press release announcing Julian Sindall’s appointment.