Caroline Dean > Mills & Reeve LLP > Norwich, England > Lawyer Profile

Mills & Reeve LLP
1 St James Court
WHITEFRIARS
NORWICH
NR3 1RU
England
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Work Department

Real estate.

Position

Caroline has extensive experience of acting for corporate occupiers, developers and landowners and advises on a full range of complex commercial property matters.  Caroline has a particular expertise in acting for charities and has been advising the consortia of institutions at the Norwich Research Park on the development of their world leading science park. She also regularly acts for large corporate clients including Norwich City Football Club, Anglian Windows,  Wood Group and Archant , dealing with their real estate portfolios and has extensive experience in the retail sector.   

She also acts for numerous landowner clients bringing forward land for development, both for residential and commercial new builds, including dealing with promotion agreements, joint ventures and collaborations as well as the more traditional options and conditional sale agreements.

Caroline also continues to act for landowners in the minerals and waste sector.

Career

Trainee solicitor Clifford Chance 1992-94; solicitor 1994-96 Clifford Chance; solicitor Pitmans 1996-98; solicitor Eversheds 1998-2000; associate  Eversheds 2000-2005; partner Mills & Reeve 2005 to date.

Languages

Conversational French and German.

Memberships

Associate member, The Minerals Products Association.

Education

Goffs School Cheshunt, Herts; St Catherine’s College, Oxford (1990 MA Geography 2(1)); College of Law, Lancaster Gate London (1991) Common Professional Exam; (1992) Law Society Finals).

Leisure

Skiing, reading, gardening and socialising.

Lawyer Rankings

East Anglia > Real estate > Commercial property: Norwich

(Leading partners)

Caroline DeanMills & Reeve LLP

Mills & Reeve LLP has a cross-office practice that has a heavy concentration of talent in Norwich, where practice heads Caroline Dean and Carina Davis are standout partners for development projects and strategic land matters. The firm has ‘a very large widely skilled practice with a good range of specialists available to provide advice‘. Among the many highly regarded partners are mixed-use development specialist Anna Aldous, residential development expert  Zoe Cooke, portfolio acquisition adviser Lisa-Marie Kennedy, corporate real estate structuring specialist David Siddall, and principal associate Judy Day, who handles education sector projects. Cooke recently advised Lendlease on a £250m residential project at Elephant Park, London.