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Emma Pinkerton
Partner

Emma Pinkerton

Co Head of Real Estate Disputes

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Emma Pinkerton is a partner and co head of the Real Estate Disputes team. She works closely with our wider Real Estate practice, providing strategic advice informed by extensive experience across all types of property disputes in the Courts, Tribunals and alternative dispute resolution forums.

Emma acts for a broad range of clients, with a particular focus on the energy sector. She advises on development agreements, interpretation of deeds, options and overage provisions, nuisance and trespass, and has significant experience obtaining injunctions against persons unknown to protect property and critical infrastructure. She also advises on contentious planning matters, including Judicial Review and applications to modify restrictive covenants.

Known for her commercial approach, Emma is highly responsive to clients’ needs and works closely with them to build strong, long term relationships.

Relevant experience

  • On complex site disposals including facilitating the relocation and removal of tenants to enable remediation works; reviewing more than 300 tenancies at will and advising on their impact on vacant possession strategy; and assessing rights to relocate pipelines and associated equipment across multiple sites.
  • Alongside the planning team in a series of Judicial Review proceedings, including successfully challenging the grant of planning permission to safeguard the ongoing viability of a town centre retail destination.
  • Securing urgent injunctions to protect nationally significant energy infrastructure from unlawful protest activity, ensuring continuity of critical operations.
  • Scottish Widows in a High Court claim concerning the rectification of a lease and underlease. The decision was overturned on appeal and is now cited as a leading authority on contract interpretation.

Education

  • 1998 - Anthropology and Law BA, London School of Economics
  • 2001 - LPC, College of Law, London

Insights by Emma

CMS strengthens Real Estate Disputes team with the appointment of two market-leading lawyers in Manchester

24 Sep 2025 3 min read

Court scales back HS2 protest injunction as project partially abandoned

05 Jun 2024 5 min read

Sweeper clauses – are they a commitment to potentially ruinous costs?

17 Jan 2024 7 min read

Newcomer Injunctions: new Supreme Court decision

30 Nov 2023 4 min read
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