The Real Estate and Construction sector remains a key area for a wide range of global and national businesses, from international investors to developers, building contractors to occupiers.
We recognise clients face a range of challenges including, an increasingly global real estate investment market, growing demand for a high quality built environment and continued focus on achieving sustainability.
CMS is well placed to service these needs through a network of over 50 offices across Europe. In the UK, our resource is based in four offices: London, Bristol, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. This enables us to provide the top quality service for which we are renowned, at a competitive price.
We provide clients with practical, no nonsense business advice, creating innovative solutions and drawing on our considerable expertise from a diverse range of experience.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Real Estate Investment –our team of 18 partners and over 50 assistants is at the centre of our offering and has exceptional experience.
- Development –commercial, residential or mixed use, and including major urban regeneration projects.
- Construction –our top tier market-leading team has years of experience and is renowned for giving excellent commercial advice from project procurement and contract negotiation to avoiding and resolving disputes.
- Planning –our highly rated team is led by 2 partners and focuses on some of the most complicated property and infrastructure developments in the UK.
- Environment –led by Paul Sheridan, known as one of the best environmental lawyers in the country, we have depth in contentious and non-contentious work.
- Real Estate Dispute Resolution –a 2 partner team deals with the full scope of real estate disputes, and how to avoid them.
- Fund Structures –leading industry figure Melville Rodrigues leads this team and our growing expertise in this sector.
- Corporate and Tax –our teams work extensively on real estate transactions and have wide-ranging knowledge of joint venture structures and associated tax issues; and deal with off-shore structures in the Channel Islands and elsewhere.
- Hotels –our team is continually recognised by the legal directories as the top team in Europe advising on some of the most high profile deals.
- Occupiers –our team advises a wide range of retailers and other occupiers on real estate matters ranging from development, acquisition and disposal of headquarters buildings through to dealing with day to day property related issues.