James McCormack

Legal Director, Social, Sustainable and Green Finance
London, UK

Expertise

James is a real estate development solicitor, specialising in affordable housing matters. He has over 10 years’ experience acting for registered providers of social housing, local authorities, developers, housebuilders and institutional investors across a broad range of real estate and development matters. James has a particular focus on joint venture and partnership arrangements (particularly public/private partnerships), and regeneration projects. This covers the life cycle of a development project – from corporate, funding and tax matters on establishment, through to land structuring, development matters, and sales.

Experience

Advised Peabody Trust on the development of the St Ann’s Hospital site in Haringey, which will deliver c. 1,000 new homes (of which 60% will be affordable housing). This involved land and development arrangements with the Greater London Authority as freeholder, and joint venture arrangements for the development with the Hill Group.
Advised Poplar Harca on development and joint venture arrangements with the Hill Group for the redevelopment of the Tevoit Estate in Tower Hamlets, which is due to deliver c. 1,500 homes and significant social value investment.
Advised Man Group Plc on the acquisition of energy-efficient affordable homes, using funding from its Community Housing Fund.
Advised Riverside Group on a regeneration project based in Tower Hamlets, in conjunction with Mount Anvil.
Advised L&Q on arrangements for the construction of c. 500 new homes within the Greenwich Peninsula regeneration area, in collaboration with the Greater London Authority (as landowner) and Knight Dragon (as master developer).

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