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Charles Staveley
Work Department
Real estate, real estate investment
Position
Real Estate Partner specialising in real estate investment and development work
Charles leads the firm’s real estate investment sector, drawing together expertise in mainstream investment work and alternative asset classes. Charles’s clients include institutional pension funds, management houses, property companies, onshore and offshore investors (in the USA, Asia and Europe). He is a member of the IPF, the Cambridge Land Economy Advisory Board, the IBA Real Estate Committee, the Mills & Reeve Board, is a Charity Trustee of Cambridge RUFC and a Kids cricket coach at St Giles CC.
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 +, Board member 2015 to date. Publications of note: articles for ‘Pensions Weekly’ and ‘Property Week’; commentary in the ‘Financial Times’; ‘EG’ and various other journals. Panellist at the London EG Question time event at the Globe Theatre on 28 June 2016.
Languages
English.
Memberships
Investment Property Forum (IPF), IBA Real Estate Committee and Cambridge Land Economy Advisory Board
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
Cricket: ECB cricket coach (kids’ cricket); Wendens Ambo Cricket Club; Flitch Pilgrims Cricket Club; Felsted Robins CC; Thowstave CC. Rugby Union: trustee of Cambridge RFC charitable trust; CRUFC. Other interests: horseracing; history
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