Daniel Drukarz heads Asserson Law Offices’ Planning and Regeneration Team from the firm’s offices in London.

He is City trained and as a young planning lawyer was fortunate to 'sit at the knee' of one of Planning's greats, Pat Thomas OBE, a leader of the profession, whilst at SJ Berwin. Daniel has specialised as a planning lawyer for over 22 years and before joining ALO to spearhead the growth of its London office in May 2011 was previously head of the London Planning team at international law firm, Pinsent Masons. He has consistently been ranked in both Chambers and Legal 500 as a leader in his field, and at the top of his profession, for over 15 consecutive years. He is a member of the Energy Institute.

Daniel is an acknowledged expert in legal planning strategy. His clients range from a broad mix of private sector property development companies and their JV partners, both domestic and international, public sector bodies and Housing Associations.

He has built up a vast network of property intermediaries and is often asked to assemble and project-manage large scale professional teams.

His team’s experience includes work on the largest mixed use regeneration projects across London and the South East (including the London 2012 Olympics, Lords cricket ground, The Shard and Heron Tower), including residential led schemes, tall building projects in the capital, hotels, offices and the retail sector.

Other notable instructions include:

• Achieving planning consents (two planning authorities) coupled with complex infrastructure agreements for Sun Microsystems' European HQ, involving a new 500,000 sq ft office campus development on MOD land in Hampshire.
• Successful defence of first ever judicial review action against the exercise of the new Mayor of London's planning powers.
• Achieving planning consent for London and Quadrant Housing Trust's scheme for the wholesale residential led redevelopment of the Kingsland Basin, LB Hackney, involving infrastructure agreements to achieve the highest standards of public realm.
• Working with leading architects MAKE on the potential for two 50 storey towers with up to 70,000 sq.m of mixed use space on two sites adjacent to Marsh Wall on the Isle of Dogs.
• Achieving consent for a residential conversion of a locally listed Monastery in North London, involving the quashing of the Council's decision to designate the site a conservation area, whilst also lodging a novel multi million pound compensation claim against the Council under the Listed Building legislation.