Michelle Cookson > Mills & Reeve LLP > Cambridge, England > Lawyer Profile
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Michelle Cookson
Work Department
Real estate.
Position
Partner specialising in complex investment and development projects with extensive experience in the higher education and health sectors. She leads the team advising Trinity College, Cambridge, providing advice on the strategic management of their investment portfolio including Cambridge Science Park, Felixstowe Docks and the O2. Other recent work includes advising: Addenbrooke’s Hospital in relation to its £850m expansion of its existing campus; Cheung Kong Infrastructure holdings Ltd, the Hong Kong listed infrastructure company, on the sale of its subsidiary, Cambridge Water, to HSBC bank; and Trinity College on its acquisition of a 50% interest in a limited partnership joint venture with Tesco into a portfolio financed by a £450m loan backed by 30 year bonds on the Irish Stock Exchange.
Career
Trainee solicitor Glaisyers, Manchester 1982-83; Wakefield & Co, London 1983-84; solicitor 1984-85; solicitor Francis & Co, Cambridge 1985-87; partner Mills & Reeve, Cambridge 1987-94; consultant Mills & Reeve, Cambridge 2007-09; partner Mills & Reeve, Cambridge June 2009 to date.
Languages
French.
Education
Newton-le-Willows High School; Manchester Polytechnic (1978-81 BA law with French); Chester College of Law (1981-82 solicitors finals).
Leisure
Spending time with family and friends, cinema, travel.
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