Legal & General hires Wes Erlam as Director of Urban Regeneration

Joining the business on 6 April, this senior appointment demonstrates Legal & General’s commitment to the levelling up agenda, structuring progressive public/private partnerships and providing the significant investment needed to help cities adapt, change and innovate.

Wes brings with him over 20 years of experience in land, development, investment and mixed-use regeneration. More than 12 of those years were spent working for the Morgan Sindall Group, most recently leading the company’s Investment division. In this role he was responsible for spearheading its UK wide public/private partnership development activity and focusing on large-scale, mixed-tenure projects, holding several board positions within its partnerships. He was previously a development director at Morgan Sindall’s sister company, Muse Developments.

In this new role, Wes will oversee all LGC’s direct investments in urban regeneration as they continue to expand, evolve and mature, and will help further bolster its capabilities in creating like-minded joint ventures and public/private partnerships. Currently invested across sixteen UK towns and cities, Legal & General is involved in some of the UK’s largest urban transformation schemes and is funding the next generation of science and innovation centres, which have proven crucial in response to COVID-19. Creating jobs, boosting local communities and helping the UK to build back better, these investments generate returns for shareholders, create attractive assets to back its pension liabilities, and supply desirable alternative assets to LGIM clients.