Dwight Patten

Partner
  • Experience

Dwight qualified in November 2001 and joined Birketts in May 2017. He is a Partner in our Commercial Real Estate Team.

Dwight has extensive experience in a range of sectors. He specialises in acting for higher education and other educational institutions, local authorities and charities. Having been seconded on multiple occasions to large regional universities, Dwight possesses a keen understanding of the key drivers of such organisations and the regulatory frameworks in which they operate. Dwight is a key member of Birketts’ Education Team.

Dwight and his team also have an extensive corporate support and corporate occupier practice in the Cambridge area and wider eastern region, often advising on strategic relocations and fit-outs of existing or new build premises and also advising on key property issues in the context of corporate acquisitions and disposals. He possesses a well-honed ability to draw focus to the issues that will genuinely be relevant to the client’s aims and outcomes and tailor a successful strategy with those issues and the client’s time-scale firmly in mind.

Dwight also advises developers on development agreements and joint ventures as well as landowners and developers in relation to strategic land agreements including promotion and option agreements.

Dwight brings a strong commercial approach and understanding, having also previously held a senior in-house legal and management role for a leading business association for the consultant engineering sector and its trading and specialist subsidiaries.

Dwight is recommended and named as a ‘Next Generation Partner’ by Legal 500 [UK 2025]. 

Dwight is based in our Cambridge office.

Dwight brings a strong commercial approach and understanding, having also previously held a senior in-house legal and management role for a leading business association for the consultant engineering sector and its trading and specialist subsidiaries.

Dwight is recommended and named as a ‘Next Generation Partner’ by Legal 500 [UK 2024]. In this edition, a client notes “Dwight Patten is the partner we have dealt with. Dwight is responsive and customer focused. He has great domain knowledge and often raises ideas and challenges that help us get to a better commercial solution.”

Awards and Memberships

Legal 500 logo Next Generation Partner 2025

Dwight Patten is the partner we have dealt with. Dwight is responsive and customer focused. He has great domain knowledge and often raises ideas and challenges that help us get to a better commercial solution.

Legal 500 [UK 2024]

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