Ian Painter
UK Guide 2025
Band 3 : Real Estate: £150 million and above
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About
Provided by Ian Painter
Practice Areas
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.
Career
Keble College, Oxford (BA Jurisprudence) 2004
Keble College, Oxford (Masters, BCL) 2005
Joined Clifford Chance 2006
Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2008
Partner since 2018
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Ian Painter has a good reputation for his real estate practice, which largely focuses on the development market. He advises on acquisitions, pre-lettings and joint venture formation related to a range of projects, including student accommodation, private rental and rail station redevelopments.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Ian is extremely knowledgeable, commercially aware and meets, or exceeds, deadlines. My mind is completely at ease when he's working on one of my transactions."
"Ian presents a range of well-considered solutions to problems even before the issue has been articulated, minimising uncertainty and allowing complex deals to be concluded in short timeframes."
"Ian is extremely knowledgeable, commercially aware and meets, or exceeds, deadlines. My mind is completely at ease when he's working on one of my transactions."
"Ian presents a range of well-considered solutions to problems even before the issue has been articulated, minimising uncertainty and allowing complex deals to be concluded in short timeframes."
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