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Cheryl Gurnham

Partner

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Cheryl Gurnham

Partner

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English

Cheryl is a partner in the Real Estate team. Cheryl’s work is split between investment, development and asset management work. She has a particular interest in mixed use developments, including rights of light and lease structuring. She is also interested in sustainability and ESG and is part of a working group with the Green Finance Institute’s Coalition for the Energy Efficiency of Buildings.

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Relevant experience

  • Land Securities PLC – A number of sales, including Holborn Gate, 160-162 Queen Victoria Street and Thomas More Square. The asset management for both London and retail portfolios. The development of The Forge. Acting on their corporate debt structure.
  • Great Portland Estates PLC – The acquisition, development, letting and sale (including lease structuring) for Rathbone Square, a mixed use scheme, with 162 apartments, office premises (let to Facebook) and retail/restaurants. The development, letting and sale of 78/92 Great Portland Street and 15/23 Riding House Street. 
  • Pension Schemes – Dealing with asset management, investment purchases and sales and development acquisitions.
  • PSP Investments and QuadReal – The purchase, joint venture (with URW) and development funding of Cherry Park, a 1,200 apartment BTR scheme next to Westfield Stratford City.
  • CPP Investments – The joint venture with Lendlease and the investment in BTR buildings in Lendlease’s Elephant Park, London development.
  • QuadReal – The acquisition of a majority interest in eight Realstar Group PRS and student assets in the UK.
  • DTZ Investors’ COLIV fund – The purchase and development funding of three co-living assets in London.
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Publications

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Lectures list

  • Navigating the mixed-use maze – Part 1: buying mixed-use properties – November 2014, RICS CPD Foundation
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Education

  • 2001 – LLM Commercial Law, University of Bristol
  • 2000 – LLB Law, University of Bristol
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Expertise

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14/02/2024
Time to 'green' your leases? Revamped Green Lease Toolkit released
At the end of January 2024, the Better Buildings Partnership (“BBP”) launched its updated Green Lease Toolkit – its first revision since 2013.What is the Green Lease Toolkit?The Green Lease Toolkit...
Law-Now Real Estate
Green lease drafting and the Better Building Partnership’s new green leases...
This talk will provide a general introduction to green lease drafting and consider the new green leases toolkit from the Better Buildings Partnership to be launched in early 2024
Event Legal
21/11/2023
CMS Real Estate webinar series: Green lease drafting and the Better Building...
This talk will provide a general introduction to green lease drafting and consider the new green leases toolkit from the Better Buildings Partnership to be launched in early 2024. 
Event Webinar
10/11/2023
Driving sustainability in real estate and construction
Contributing to the fight against climate change and creating social value are now priorities for the real estate and construction sectors.   The long-term nature of the built environment means that resilience and sustainability should be considered at every stage if buildings are to be environmentally and socially responsible. This brings both opportunities and challenges for the businesses that create, own or maintain it. They must consider the evolving technical, regulatory and market landscape, to ensure that their investments are future-proofed commercially, as well as environmentally and socially. This section of Bandwidth looks at some of the ESG issues that confront developers and property owners, and how they can incorporate practical solutions into their businesses.
Publication
30/09/2022
ESG in real estate
Whether you own or occupy property, ESG factors will have a major impact on your real estate in the coming years. Surveys of commercial real estate and construction professionals show that most believe that demand for sustainable buildings is on the increase. This page brings together practical resources and insight for the real estate sector on how ESG can be embedded. If there is a topic you’d like to discuss, please get in touch.
Publication
09/12/2021
Backing better buildings
Retrofitting was an important theme at COP26, with many speakers highlighting the benefits of a ‘preserve and improve’ strategy, rather than demolition to enable development. As about 10% of the UK’s...
Law-Now Sustainability
08/12/2021
Backing better buildings
Retrofitting was an important theme at COP26, with many speakers highlighting the benefits of a ‘preserve and improve’ strategy, rather than demolition to enable development. As about 10% of the UK’s...
Publication
27/07/2021
More video highlights from the CMS Smart Cities and ESG Roundtable event...
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22/07/2021
Video highlights from the CMS Smart Cities and ESG Roundtable event featuring...
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11/05/2021
Abigail Dean, Andrew Knight and James Pellatt videos from Smart Cities...
 Abigail Dean, Andrew Knight and James Pellatt discuss a number of ESG issues in the videos below.
Publication
14/04/2021
Video highlights from the Smart Cities & ESG Roundtables
For 8 years in a row, the Real Estate team at CMS has produced an annual Thought Leadership report based on major pieces of industry research, addressing key issues facing the real estate sector and exploring market trends. Our 2019 Thought Leadership report, titled Urban Being, indicated that we were going to see unprecedented levels of interest and investment in all forms of rented accommodation in Europe’s leading cities that would reshape the local housing markets from an economic and political standpoint, but more importantly would better reflect how people of all ages want to live, work and play in our cities in the future. In particular, we explored how affordability and supply issues, coupled with shifting technological, economic and lifestyle factors, were shaping demand for rented residential solutions across generations and societal groups.
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11/11/2020
Webinar: CMS Real Estate Thought Leadership Report – Reset
There is no doubt that ‘En­vir­on­ment­al, Social, Governance’ (ESG) has been at the forefront of everyone’s agendas in recent years. With real estate being the biggest consumer of energy, the industry...
Event Webinar
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