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Rebecca Bullingham
Of Counsel

Rebecca Bullingham

Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish
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Rebecca Bullingham is an Of Counsel in the CMS Real Estate Disputes team, dealing with a full spectrum of contentious real estate issues. Her clients include institutional landlords, REITs, funds, developers and corporate occupiers across asset classes, with experience in complex landlord and tenant matters, development related disputes and portfolio asset management issues. Her work spans contested and uncontested lease renewals, service charge and rent disputes, dilapidations and repair, break rights, alienation and permitted use disputes, easements and covenants, nuisance and trespass, and strategic vacant possession advice.  She also has a particular specialism for securing possession of commercial properties occupied by squatters, via urgent court proceedings, escalating via High Court action and injunctive relief where appropriate, and advising on ongoing prevention measures.

Rebecca also leads the team’s work on insurance related real estate issues, representing insurers and their insureds on issues relating to title defects, rights of way, restrictive covenants and boundaries.  She is also one of the team’s resident insolvency experts, specialising in administration and liquidation, and also CVAs and restructuring plans, on which she has written and published articles and short and snappy LinkedIn videos.

Rebecca is praised by clients for her down-to-earth nature and commercial and pragmatic approach, providing straightforward advice which is easy to digest, alongside practical solutions.

Relevant experience

  • Successfully defending a claim brought against Lidl UK GmbH by Generator Developments LLP for a Pallant v. Morgan equity in relation to a £6.8m development site in Brentwood Essex, in which judgment was given in favour of Lidl following a 6-day High Court trial and then subsequently in the Court of Appeal.
  • The successful Claimant/landlord in Avocet Industrial Estates LLP v. Merol Ltd & Tudor Rose International Ltd [2011] EWHC 3422 (Ch) in relation to the determination of whether a tenant’s break notice was effective.
  • An international airline on issues arising as part of its property portfolio and navigating entry into and exits from major UK airports.
  • An energy client regarding a proposed solar farm development.
  • Title indemnity insurers on issues regarding rights of way, restrictive covenants and other real property issues.

Memberships & Roles

  • Member of Women in Property.
  • Member of Bristol Property Agents Association.

Education

  • 2001 – LPC, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham.
  • 2000 – Post-Graduate Diploma in Law, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham.
  • 1999 – BA (Joint Hons) French & History, University of Nottingham, Nottingham.

Insights by Rebecca

A time for change in restructuring plan case management

19 Dec 2025 6 min read

Restructuring Plans Refresh – where are we now?

05 Nov 2025

Rights of Access and Possession where Tenant Insolvent

14 Feb 2023 4 min read

Court of Appeal overturns judgment - Bath Rugby expansion to proceed

10 Jan 2022 5 min read
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