Nick Finlayson-Brown > Mills & Reeve LLP > Cambridge, England > Lawyer Profile
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Nick Finlayson-Brown
Work Department
Real estate and Head of China Desk
Position
Partner. A real estate lawyer with over 25 years of experience helping a diverse range of UK and overseas clients in connection with property investment, development and management across the private, institutional, charitable (including heritage) and public sectors acting for pension funds, onshore and offshore investors and sovereign wealth funds, developers, managers and leading heritage institutions and local/central government agencies. This includes dealing with a wide range of clients with a variety of complex requirements and structures. Projects include acting for property investors and developers in connection with the acquisition, management and development of prime London real estate and national property portfolios – including the West End and the City and advising landowners and developers in connection with the promotion and regeneration of brownfield sites across the UK. Nick also acts for leading heritage bodies in connection with the management and development of their estates including The National Gallery, The British Library, The Science Museum Group and The Natural History Museum. Current projects include the procurement of development partners for 3 brownfield regeneration projects in central London in and around King’s Cross, Docklands and Victoria Embankment.
As head of the firm’s China Desk, working with Chinese state-owned enterprises, private companies and multipliers in connection with direct investment from China into the UK and Europe and also working with lawyers in China to provide a trusted network of advisers to clients seeking to invest in the PRC. Current projects include advising Chinese entities on the acquisition of student accommodation, schools, investment in real estate development projects in Docklands and more generally facilitating M&A projects, listings and infrastructure projects.
In his role as Head of Office for Mills & Reeve in Cambridge, Nick is active in many local and national networks to promote the Cambridge economy and the entrepreneurial flare and brilliance that has attracted global investors, tech and life science companies to the region and its clusters. Nick is a champion for diversity and inclusion within Mills & Reeve. This is something that he is keen to see embraced in the wider community.
Career
Trainee solicitor Allen & Overy 1991-93; senior solicitor 1993-2001; associate Mills & Reeve 2001-02; partner Mills & Reeve 2003.
Languages
French.
Education
Sawston Village College, Cambridge; University of York (BA Philosophy); College of Law, Lancaster Gate, London (CPE; LSF).
Leisure
Music, reading, walking and gardening.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
(Hall of Fame)The practice at Mills & Reeve LLP in Cambridge ‘provides City of London law firm expertise’ with a strong group led by real estate investment specialist Charles Staveley an Richard Noble, who advises on projects in the not-for-profit sector. Michelle Cookson handles complex investment and development projects, while life sciences real estate adviser Vincenzo Maggio assists investors and life sciences occupiers. Christine De Ferrars Green focuses on strategic development projects, and Nick Finlayson-Brown handles investment and development work for UK and overseas clients. Providing ‘commercially astute’ advice, principal associate Christopher Pike frequently assists with portfolio management. Praised by clients for being ‘exceptionally hardworking’ and ‘personable’, principal associates Laura Ludlow and Tom Nash focus on education matters and strategic land deals respectively.
Lawyer Rankings
- Commercial property: Cambridge East Anglia > Real estate
- Hall of Fame East Anglia > Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Norwich
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Real estate > Commercial property: Norwich
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Norwich
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employment
- Private client > Family
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Immigration
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Pensions
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector