Our real estate disputes team are specialists in a wide range of real estate disputes and provide comprehensive advice to clients. The ability of CMS Cameron McKenna lawyers to give timely, valuable advice has earned us the position of trusted legal advisor to many investors, occupiers and public bodies across Europe including developers of, and large institutional investors in, real estate, to effectively avoid, manage and resolve real estate disputes. 

A further strength of our specialists is the ongoing variety of advice regularly requested in relation to their real estate disputes and landlord and tenant disputes. Particular priorities for our clients have included either creating positions to maximise the value of their portfolios or seeking to minimise financial exposure.

Relevant experience includes advising on:

• Break clauses and their validity, to challenge them when served (landlords) to exercise them (tenants) and to ensure compliance with conditions precedent (both)
• Development related issues including rights of first refusal (Landlord and Tenant Act 1987), site clearance, the removal of telecommunications equipment and overage disputes
• Rent reviews
• The enforcement, release and modification of restrictive covenants
• Rights of Light
• Enfranchisement and lease extension claims.
• Nuisance, derogation from grant and quiet enjoyment disputes
• Enforcement and interpretation of lease covenants, including the use of remedies of forfeiture, damages, distrait and injunctive relief
• Renewal of commercial property leases including both 'opposed' and 'unopposed' renewals