Charles Staveley > Mills & Reeve LLP > Cambridge, England > Lawyer Profile

Mills & Reeve LLP
BOTANIC HOUSE
100 HILLS ROAD
CAMBRIDGE
CB2 1PH
England

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)

Charles StaveleyMills & Reeve LLP

Mills & Reeve LLP has a real estate practice that has built up a strong national reputation across its office network, and it is frequently called upon to handle complex and high-profile projects. Head of real estate Richard Hanson focuses on disputes, but he oversees a strong bench of talent in the Cambridge office, which handles corporate real estate transactions, real estate investment deals, development projects, and landlord and tenant work. Real estate investment partner Charles Staveley, life sciences sector specialist Vincenzo Maggio, and development project advisers Michelle Cookson and Nick Finlayson-Brown are all at the top of their game. Principal associate Christopher Pike and newly promoted partner Tom Nash also stand out. Christine De Ferrars Green retired in May 2024.