Michelle Kershaw

PARTNER - REAL ESTATE

Tel: +44 (0) 20 8092 4134

Mob: +44 (0) 7971 630919

Michelle is a real estate lawyer with over 16 years’ experience working in the City of London at Tier 1 and International firms.

Her clients are start-ups, HNW individuals, real estate funds, developers and landlord/tenants.

She has real estate sector expertise in residential development including build to rent and co-living. Michelle deals with all aspects of commercial property investment, management, development and finance with particular expertise in office, primary care, clean energy and industrial & logistics sectors.

Michelle sits on the South East branch committee for the Association of Women in Property and is past Chairman 2018-19. She is the originator of an APP for the network to launch in 2020.

She is currently Chair and Trustee of The Association of Cultural Advancement through Visual Art (ACAVA), an arts organisation and educational charity founded over 40 years ago which manages a portfolio of circa 20 buildings provide affordable art studio spaces for circa 500 artists.

She is an Advisory Board Member of Gleensite – a proptech company using machine learning and big data for predictive analysis in the real estate market.

She attended the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) to study Real Estate Finance and Economics.

Relevant Career Highlights

Dentons
Nabarro (now CMS)

Areas of Expertise

Acquisitions and disposals
Landlord and Tenant
Development - both residential and commercial
Finance
Property management

Recent Experience

Advising a co-living company on the lease of 16 apartments in north London
Advising a real time news and analytics company in an office letting in the City of London
Advising an investor and developer on the acquisition of a multi-occupied business site in Leicester
Advising a US hedge fund on London Wall – multiple renewal and rights of first refusal with over £1m annual rents each floor
Acted for a build to rent fund and REIT – acquisition of sites for development of housing with finance from Homes England
Acted for TfL on its “Small Sites Project” - 20 small sites freehold and long leasehold for development in London.

Interesting Facts About Michelle

Michelle rowed a 16 century style fixed seat rowing boat for 10km down the river Thames.

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