Real Estate
Future facing legal experts guiding your real estate ventures across borders
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As an investor, developer, occupier, construction consortium or asset manager, your real estate deals are executed to tight deadlines within complex local legal systems. With over 800 lawyers in 40 countries, we provide consistent legal advice across borders, coordinated from your home market.
CMS Real Estate at a glance:
200+ partners and 800+ lawyers globally;
Largest Real Estate Team in Europe;
25 Tier 1 and 2 rankings in the categories real property and public law in Chambers & Partners Europe and Legal 500 EMEA;
Act for over half of the top 100 real estate investors.
We have a number of key qualities which differentiate us from our competitors, including
- a focus on real estate (construction and development, disposals, financings, investments, litigation, managers, occupiers, planning and environmental and tax) working on all asset classes (data centres, hotels, infrastructure, logistics, offices, senior housing and healthcare, residential, retail and student accommodation)
- extensive footprint with specific local knowledge;
- multidisciplinary advice – including funds, corporate, tax, banking and insolvency – with a single point of contact for your multinational legal needs;
- the ability to develop strong relationships with you and your suppliers;
- detailed knowledge and experience within all areas of law – both contentious and non-contentious;
- a proactive and commercial approach; and
- civil notaries (where bar rules allow)
Legal experts for Real Estate
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PARTNER
Dr. Andreas Otto
Rechtsanwalt, Notary Public | Co-Head of the CMS Real Estate Group
GERMANY, BERLIN
REAL ESTATE & PUBLIC
REAL ESTATE
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PARTNER
Mark Heighton
Co-Head of the CMS International Real Estate Group
UNITED KINGDOM, LONDON
CONSUMER PRODUCTS
TMT - TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
+5 MORE
PARTNER
Jeroen Berlage
Advocaat | Co-Head of the CMS Infrastructure & Projects Group
NETHERLANDS, AMSTERDAM
INFRASTRUCTURE & PROJECTS
REAL ESTATE
+2 MORE
PARTNER
Amanda Howard
UNITED KINGDOM, LONDON
FUNDS
CORPORATE
+3 MORE
PARTNER
Dr. Nicolai Ritter
Rechtsanwalt
GERMANY, BERLIN
REAL ESTATE & PUBLIC
REAL ESTATE & PUBLIC - CONSTRUCTION
+2 MORE
Highlighted experience
Case studies
The Edge Amsterdam-West is a large office building under construction in Amsterdam. The office complex uses smart technology to create adaptable and intelligent work spaces that use significantly less electricity than comparable buildings. It has been labeled ‘the smartest building in the world’ by the media given it’s green credentials and use of technology.
CMS advised Korean investor Hana Alternative Asset Management (HAAM) on the EUR 250m acquisition and development of Edge-Amsterdam West. A full service team combined its sector and technical experts to deliver a one-stop shop for all their legal needs.
CMS advised Select Property Group (Holdings) Limited (“Select”), “Vita Student” (Select’s Student Accommodation brand) and “Affinity Living” (one of Select’s PRS/BtR brands) in joint venture with Bruntwood on all aspects of the GBP 750m, 2.4m2mixed use development at Circle Square, Manchester, UK which comprises 600+ PRS/BtR units, circa 500+ student accommodation units, Grade A offices, multi-storey car park, new retail space, hotels and extensive new public realm and infrastructure improvements.
CMS created bespoke solutions that included:
- The creation of a bespoke estate/development structure.
- The delivery of Circle Square-wide infrastructure and public realm works.
- Accommodating the public sector requirements/constraints of Greater Manchester Pension Venture Fund (GMPVF) in a development/funding JV with Select Property Group as a private sector entity.
- Accommodating the requirements of a club of institutional funders in the largest regional funding of a private rented sector development, in what is still considered to be a new/emerging market.
- The creation of a bespoke tax-efficient structure for both the Bruntwood joint venture and the GMPVF joint venture.
- Specialist advice re tax, funding, development management and post-development operations management at the completed private rented sector development.
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Local market knowledge. Global outlook
We provide future-facing legal advice to help your organisation thrive. Combining local market knowledge and a global perspective, and with lawyers in locations worldwide, your organisation benefits from the expertise it needs, even across borders.
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