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Chris D'Emanuele

Partner

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

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 Portland Estates, Blue Coast Capital, The Crown Estate, LendLease, Queensgate Investments and Nuveen Global Real Estate. He regularly advises on high profile assets across London and the UK in relation to anything from the development of office, retail and mixed use schemes (from acquisition, site assembly and construction through to pre-lets and disposal), standalone or large scale rights of light projects, acquisitions (whether acquired directly or via complex ownership structure, be it onshore or offshore) as well as day-to-day asset management.

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Memberships & Roles

  • Great Portland Estates on the £65m sale of Kurt Geiger’s head offices at 24-25 Britton Street.
  • Blue Coast Capitals on the £45m sale of 9 Kingsway, London, a £150m development portfolio refinancing with Massachusetts Mutual Life Company and the letting of 30 Cleveland St to Take Two Games as their new head office.
  • Queensgate Investments on the £500m sale of the London Executive Offices serviced office business.
  • The Crown Estate on the pre-letting and £500m redevelopment of the Fosse Park Shopping Park, Leicester.
  •     LendLease on the pre-lets for Cancer Research UK and The British Council for Building S9 at The International Quarter, Stratford and its forward finding disposal to DWS for £240m.
  • Nuveen on all rights of light matters relating to the development and £875m sale of 40 Leadenhall Street.
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Education

  • 2007 – LLB, Nottingham Trent University & Nottingham Law School, Nottingham
  • 2004 – BA Business & Economics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle
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11/01/2022
CMS advises Lendlease on joint venture with CPP Investments
International law firm CMS has advised international property and infrastructure group, Lendlease, on a long term strategic 50:50 partnership with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments)...
01/02/2021
Electronic signatures in real estate documents in England & Wales
1. Which documents can use an electronic signature and take legal effect? Generally, any document which does not need to be registered with the Land Registry or HMRC. This may in­clude:Sale/Pur­chase agree­ments;Agree­ments...
28/04/2020
Electronic Signatures in Real Estate Documents
For many within the Real Estate industry, the use of electronic signatures will be unfamiliar ground – a practice often discussed but never used. Yet, where they are capable of being used, electronic...