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Mills & Reeve LLP

FRANCIS HOUSE, 112 HILLS ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1PH, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 01223 364422
Fax:
Fax 01223 355848
DX:
122891 CAMBRIDGE 4
Web:
www.mills-reeve.com
Email:

Charles Staveley

Tel:
Work +44 1223 222490
Email:
Mills & Reeve LLP

Work Department

Real estate, real estate group.

Position

Partner in the real estate group specialising in investment work. Charles acts for institutional pension funds (railway pensions), opportunity funds (Orchard Street UK special situations fund), property companies (the Pigeon Group), offshore investors (HSBC International Trustee Ltd) and SIPP fund trustees (London & Colonial). Charles leads the real estate group’s business development and strategy, and has acquired over £100m worth of assets in the last 12 months.

Career

Trained Hunters, Lincoln’s Inn, London; qualified 1996. Trainee and solicitor Hunters 1994-97; solicitor Hammonds, City office (1997-2002); solicitor Mills & Reeve, Cambridge 2002-03; associate 2003-04; partner 2004 to date. Publications of note: articles for ‘Pensions Weekly’ and ‘Property Week’; commentary in the ‘Financial Times’; ‘EG’ and various other journals.

Languages

English.

Member

Investment Property Forum (IPF).

Education

Felsted School, Great Dunmow, Essex (1983-88 A Levels: history (A); geography (B); English (B)); University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1989-92 LLB Hons); College of Law, York (1992-93 Law Society Finals (pass)).

Leisure

Golf: committee member of Royal Worlington and Newmarket Golf Club; Hunstanton Golf Club; Beavers Golf Society; OFGS; East Anglian Lawyers. Cricket: ECB cricket coach (kids’ cricket); Wendens Ambo Cricket Club; Flitch Pilgrims Cricket Club; OFCC. Rugby: trustee of Cambridge RFC charitable trust; CRUFC. Other interests: horseracing; history.

Practice Areas

Finance - property; Investment funds; Property - commercial property

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