South West property consultancy Alder King has made two promotions in its Bristol office.
Emma Smith, from the firm’s agency team, becomes a partner while Hugh Collins is promoted to senior surveyor in the residential development and energy team. 
Emma, pictured with Hugh, developed her expertise over the past 11 years specialising in the industrial and logistics sector.
Currently working with national and regional developers and occupiers, she proactively supports a range of clients, including St Modwen, Rockhaven, Travis Perkins, Walters Land and Mileway.
Her in-depth knowledge of the region’s industrial property market enables Emma to provide invaluable advice to her clients, ensuring they are aware of a range of potential options in what has become a dynamic sector.
She also acts as a mentor to the next generation of Alder King sector specialists, sharing her knowledge and offering guidance and support, and was recently chair of the Bristol Industrial Agents Society – a role in which she supported and promoted the interests of the sector in the region.
Hugh joined Alder King in 2018 and provides acquisition and disposal advice to developers and landowners in the residential development and energy sectors.
Recent residential transactions include advising landowners on entering promotion agreements on nine acres of land at Tytherington in South Gloucestershire and more than 50 acres in Frome.
He has also provided complex site development consultancy for larger residential and mixed-use development sites, including appraisal and viability work.
He has been active in the energy sector, helping win new acquisition instructions for two large-scale battery developers and the acquisition of more than 3,000 acres of land for new utility scale energy projects for JBM Solar (now part of RWE, the UK’s largest power producer), and the acquisition of five sites across the country for Conrad Energy for new flexible energy generation schemes.
Emma and Hugh’s promotions follow a very successful year for Alder King, with strong performances across many disciplines, including agency, residential development and planning, and across the firm’s network of seven offices.
Alder King senior partner Simon Smith said: “Emma and Hugh are both talented individuals and have made an extremely valuable contribution to the firm in recent years, demonstrating initiative and hard work.
“We’re very pleased to recognise and reward their commitment and look forward to supporting Emma and Hugh’s further career development in the years to come.”
Alder King, which employs around 100 people, was established in 1911 and is today a top 25 UK property consultancy, providing multi-disciplinary advice to private and public sector clients throughout the country on all aspects of commercial property and land.
