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Real Estate Development lawyers

Competition for sites, access to funding, changing legislation, achieving planning consent, rights to light issues and community infrastructure levy are just a few of the challenges facing developers in today’s real estate market.

Whether your development is mixed use, commercial, residential or an urban regeneration project, our team of real estate specialists can help you navigate the entire development cycle from site acquisition right through to lettings and disposal.

Our real estate group includes experts in real estate finance, planning, disputes, construction and tax, allowing us to provide developer clients with specialist advice at each stage of the development process.

Working together with clients including Land Securities, Berkeley Group, Crest, Taylor Wimpey, Sainsbury’s, Imperial College London and Battersea Power Station, we are involved in some of the most significant urban regeneration, residential, retail, leisure, office, hotel, PRS, student accommodation and mixed use development projects on going across the UK at the moment.

 
Julie Gattegno
Julie Gattegno
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Julie is a partner in the firm's Real Estate Dispute Resolution team with over 20 years’ experience dealing with a huge variety of contentious property issues, with an emphasis on providing commercially...
Cheryl Gurnham
Cheryl Gurnham
Partner
United Kingdom, London
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...
Mark Haywood
Mark Haywood
Partner
United Kingdom, Manchester
Mark is an investment, development and mixed-use regeneration specialist with a particular interest in development, forward funding and so-called income strip deals across a range of sectors. Mark has...
Mark Heighton
Mark Heighton
Partner
Co-Head of the CMS International Real Estate Group
United Kingdom, London
Mark Heighton is the Co-Head of the CMS International Real Estate Team. He has been a member of the CMS Board for over 10 years.  He focuses on all aspects of the real estate transactional market advising...
Benjamin Hendry
Benjamin Hendry
Partner
United Kingdom, Sheffield
Ben has advised on corporate finance transactions of numerous shapes and sizes. He acts for a variety of clients, from SME's to major PLC’s and has had exposure to both private and public sector deals...
Tanya Holt
Tanya Holt
Partner
United Kingdom, Sheffield
Tanya is a partner in the Real Estate Group. Tanya acts for a wide range of clients in both the private and public sector on a variety of commercial property transactions including development work and...
Melanie Hughes
Melanie Hughes
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Melanie Hughes is a Partner in the Real Estate Transactions team based in our London office, joining the firm in 2023 from Michelmores. Melanie is well known for her expertise in mixed use development...
Nathan Jansen
Nathan Jansen
Partner
United Kingdom, Manchester
Nathan is a partner in our Real Estate office in Manchester. He has a wide range of experience in all aspects of commercial property law. His particular focus is in relation to major retail, industrial...
Simon Johnston
Simon Johnston
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Simon Johnston is a partner in the CMS Finance Group. As well as regularly acting for borrowers and financial institutions on a variety of development, project and investment property and hotels finance...
Sara Keag
Sara Keag
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Sara is a Partner in the Real Estate Disputes team