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Mark Heighton
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Mark Heighton

Co-Head of the CMS International Real Estate Group

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Mark Heighton is a partner in our Real Estate group.  

He focuses on all aspects of the real estate transactional market advising a range of investors, developers and occupiers on a wide range of real estate sectors (with particular emphasis on the Living, Educational and Lifesciences sectors).

Mark also has extensive experience of property related joint ventures, trust arrangements and collaboration agreements for both investment and development projects.

Mark has over 20 years’ management experience within the firm as a member of the CMS Board, Head of the UK Real Estate Group and most recently Co-Head of the CMS International Real Estate Group.

He has been ranked as a leading individual by the Legal 500 directory for many years.  Mark has been listed in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame for a number of years.  

Mark is also the Partner Co- Chair of our employee led Social Mobility Network.  

Relevant experience

  • Imperial College in relation to the acquisition and development of its White City Campus comprising over a million square feet of academic, residential, office, research and innovation space including most recently its proposed joint venture with Bruntwood for the development and letting  of a 200,000 life science building on the South Campus.
  • Long Harbour/Long Harbour Multi Family Fund on the forward funding of over 1,000 PRS residential units across the UK.
  • Ashby Capital/Native Land on the development and letting to LifeArc of 70,000 square feet of the newly refurbished Judd Street lifescience building in the West End of London.
  • Savills IM on the acquisition of 149 single family homes rented units being developed by Urban & Civic at Houlton, Rugby.
  • University College London on the acquisition and development of the world leading PEARL research laboratory in Dagenham.
  • UBS on the acquisition of Bird & Bird’s London 142,000 square feet office HQ at New Fetter Lane.
  • University College London on the letting of six floors at One Canada Square, Canary Wharf for UCL’s School of Management.
  • Dandara Eastern on the acquisition of a residential development site at Great Dunmow for the construction of 272 affordable private for sale and private rented residential units.

Memberships & Roles

  • Mark is a member of a number of real estate sector associations including The Investment Property Forum, British Council of Shopping Centres and British Council of Offices.

Education

  • LLB, Sheffield University, Sheffield
  • Law Society Finals (First Class Honours), The College of Law
  • MA (Business Law), London Metropolitan University, 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 a range of investors, developers and occupiers in relation to, not only the traditional real estate sectors but also the newer real estate asset classes, such as renewable energy and private rented sectors. 

Mark also has extensive experience of property related joint ventures, trust arrangements and collaboration agreements for both investment and development projects.

He has been ranked as a leading and key individual by the Legal 500 and Chambers directories for many years.  

Relevant experience

  • RWE on its disposal of stakes in the Rhyl Flats Offshore Wind Farm and Little Cheyne Court onshore Wind Farm to Greencoat Capital and the Green Investment Bank for £165m.
  • Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Fund on the acquisition and financing of a number of portfolios of solar farms.
  • Aviva Investors on £36m funding of a new Energy Innovation Centre for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at Addenbrookes Hospital to be operated by Mitie.
  • Octopus Capital on the real estate aspects of the sale of a stake in Lightsource Renewable Energy.
  • Wirsol/Conergy West Sussex on the acquisition and disposal of a number of solar farm development sites and facilities.
  • The Channel Tunnel Group Limited in relation to the proposed electricity interconnector being constructed by Eleclink through The Channel Tunnel.

Publications

  • Mark is a regular author in the real estate press – particularly the Estate Gazette

Memberships & Roles

  • Mark is a member of a number of real estate sector associations including The Investment Property Forum, British Council of Shopping Centres and British Council of Offices.

Education

  • LLB, Sheffield University, Sheffield
  • Law Society Finals (First Class Honours), The College of Law
  • MA (Business Law), London Metropolitan University, London
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