Carina Cobbold > Mills & Reeve LLP > Norwich, England > Lawyer Profile
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Carina Cobbold

Work Department
Real estate.
Position
Carina is a real estate partner and specialises in structuring and delivering large scale, mixed use, residential led communities/strategic sites, real estate led joint venture agreements and large scale cross-office projects (including managing large scale portfolios for clients of circa 500 properties). Her development expertise involves advising upon all aspects of development work including: site assembly, development agreements, land sales/purchases, promotion agreements, collaboration/consortium and land owner agreements, overage agreements, leases and discussions and negotiations with third parties (utility providers and local authorities) in relation to infrastructure and statutory agreements. The other side of Carina’s practice involves her helping clients structure, fund and then project manage volume acquisitions and disposals. Such projects span multiple disciples, may involve different jurisdictions, requires a close working relationship with the client’s board, tax, planning and environmental consultants, and are often time critical. Carina also leads our Patient Capital arm of our Real Estate Investment Sector which means she works alongside many stakeholders on emerging themes in this sphere, commenting on potential new structures both within the Strategic Land remit and on matters such as the Stewardship Model.
Career
Trainee solicitor Eversheds 2003-05; newly qualified Mills & Reeve LLP 2005-06; solicitor 2006-08; senior solicitor 2008-10; associate 2010-14; partner 2014.
Education
Hammonds High School, Swaffham, Norfolk 1993-97; Swaffham Sixth Form Centre 1997-99; Newcastle-Upon-Tyne University 1999-2002 (Law LLB – First Class Honours – 2002); Nottingham Law School 2002-03 (LPC – Distinction – 2003).
Leisure
Swimming, attending the gym and skiing.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Real estate > Commercial property: Norwich
(Leading partners)Mills & Reeve LLP has a cross-office practice that has a heavy concentration of talent in Norwich, where practice heads Caroline Dean and Carina Davis are standout partners for development projects and strategic land matters. The firm has ‘a very large widely skilled practice with a good range of specialists available to provide advice‘. Among the many highly regarded partners are mixed-use development specialist Anna Aldous, residential development expert Zoe Cooke, portfolio acquisition adviser Lisa-Marie Kennedy, corporate real estate structuring specialist David Siddall, and principal associate Judy Day, who handles education sector projects. Cooke recently advised Lendlease on a £250m residential project at Elephant Park, London.
London > Real estate > Commercial property: investment
Mills & Reeve LLP is highly adept in providing asset and portfolio transactional and management support to its varied clientele. Laura Holdaway leads the practice and is an adept advisor in finance matters. Carina Davis is a specialist in mixed-use sites. Orla O’Sullivan is noted for her work on forward fundings and pre-lets. Sarah Cooke, Tom Nash and Victoria Davies made partner in June 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
- Commercial property: Norwich East Anglia > Real estate
- Leading partners East Anglia > Real estate > Commercial property: Norwich
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- 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
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Employment > Immigration
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Finance > Banking and finance
- 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