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With a recently strong UK real estate market struggling to keep up with demand, competition for prime assets is higher than ever. In addition to availability, landlords, developers, asset managers, investors and occupiers face a range of challenges and opportunities in the current climate. These include the increasing globalisation of the real estate investment market, the growing demand for а high quality built environment with continued focus on achieving sustainability, and the increased use of technology and rising cyber security risks.

With one of the largest real estate teams in the UK, we have the resource and expertise our clients need to respond to this fast-paced market. Our lawyers provide decisive, pragmatic solutions allowing clients to react quickly to seize opportunities. With dedicated planning, finance, tax, construction and dispute specialists as part of the group, we are able to ensure that our clients are realising the most value possible from their assets.

We are one of the few City-based firms able to offer clients a truly full UK-wide service with offices in London, Aberdeen, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield and Reading.

In addition to our UK offering, we have real estate lawyers in 70 offices worldwide, making our Real Estate and Construction Practice one of the largest specialist teams worldwide.

We are very proud to be working with some of the most dynamic real estate businesses around at the moment. Our clients range from large international and private investors to developers, universities, utility providers and occupiers.

 
Karen Clarke
Karen Clarke
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Karen Clarke is a partner in the Construction and Engineering team with over 20 years’ experience specialising in the drafting and negotiation of construction and asset management contracts. She has...
Alan Crawford
Alan Crawford
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Alan was made partner in May 2014. Alan is client relationship partner at CMS for the Columbia Threadneedle, Life Science REIT and Block Industrial relationships. Alan acts for a mix of small and large...
David Crossley
David Crossley
Partner
United Kingdom, London
David is a partner in the CMS UK Real Estate Team. He specialises in all aspects of commercial real estate work with a particular emphasis on investment, development and financing projects. He acts for...
John Cumpson
John Cumpson
Partner
Co-head of the Real Estate Practice Group
United Kingdom, London
John is a partner and Co-head of the Real Estate Practice Group. With over 30 years in the industry John has a wide range of experience in all aspects of real estate sales and acquisitions, landlord and...
Scott Curtis
Scott Curtis
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Scott is a Partner in the Real Estate team
Chris D'Emanuele
Chris D'Emanuele
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Chris is a partner in the London Real Estate team. He has over 10 years' experience in commercial property, advising a variety of institutional developers, landlords and fund managers including Great...
Ashley Damiral
Ashley Damiral
Partner
Head of Planning
United Kingdom, London
Ashley Damiral is the Head of the CMS UK Planning Team and practices in all areas of planning, compulsory purchase and related law. Ashley advises developers, promoters and funders of complex regeneration...
Christopher Dickson
Chris Dickson
Partner
United Kingdom, Glasgow
Chris specialises in construction law and advises clients on a wide range of procurement, drafting and contract negotiation points. Chris has extensive experience of the construction contractual process...
Danielle Drummond-Brassington
Danielle Drummond-Brassington
Partner
Head of Real Estate Disputes
United Kingdom, London
Danielle Drummond-Brassington is a partner and the Head of our Real Estate Disputes team.  She provides support to the wider Real Estate team on transactions dealing with issues such as interpretation...
Abby Dry
Abby Dry
Partner
United Kingdom, Liverpool
Abby has over 22 years’ experience and extensive expertise in the real estate sector and is based in Liverpool. In recent years she has specialised in retail-focused real estate work, advising investors...