Clifford Chance LLP

Real Estate

Ian Painter specialises in advising developers, investors, lenders, landlords and tenants on all aspects of real estate developments and major infrastructure projects, including acquisitions, disposals, lettings, forward fundings, solvent and insolvent restructurings/CVAs, financings and joint ventures.
Ian has experience acting for a wide range of clients comprising primarily of major developers, international investors, banks and sovereign wealth funds.
Ian's extensive expertise spans a variety of asset classes, including office, logistics, retail, residential and student accommodation. He is also noted as a specialist in development projects which have a direct interface with operational railway, such as over-station developments and regeneration of assets in close proximity to the London underground network.

Joined Clifford Chance 2006

Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2008

Partner since 2018

Keble College, Oxford (BA Jurisprudence) 2004

Keble College, Oxford (Masters, BCL) 2005