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John is a partner in the Real Estate team. 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 tenant, development, funding, joint venture and funds work.
This experience covers many sectors from retail and offices through to residential (both build to sell and to rent).
John has acted on some of the largest retail and mixed use developments taking major town and city centre schemes from inception, heads of terms and engagement with local authorities, planning, site assembly, rights of light, securing and implementing s203 and CPOs, negotiating complex development agreements through to construction, pre-letting and ultimately disposal.
John is experienced in structuring and negotiating various forms of joint ventures/fund arrangements, including Jersey Unit Trusts, English Limited Partnerships, corporates and layered leasehold structures. Importantly, he has seen many of these through to exit and so can deliver the front-end thinking to ensure flexibility and liquidity.
John works with a variety of clients including Landsec, The Crown Estate, Battersea Power Station, The National Grid UK Pension Scheme, Mitsubishi Estate, DTZ Investors, COLIV Fund and The Dolphin Square Charitable Foundation (DSCF).
John heads the Real Estate team at CMS UK as well as sitting on the Board.
