Mishcon de Reya LLP

Lawyers

Nicholas Kirby

Work Department

Real Estate, PropTech

Career

Partner, Mishcon de Reya LLP Legal Director, Mishcon de Reya LLP Managing Associate, Mishcon de Reya LLP Associate, Mishcon de Reya LLP Solicitor, Mishcon de Reya Trainee, Mishcon de Reya

Position

Nick is a Partner in the Real Estate department. He specialises in commercial real estate work, dealing with investment (including corporate real estate) acquisitions and sales for institutional and private clients, development work, management work and acting for both landlords and tenants. Alongside his commercial real estate work, Nick is responsible for researching new technologies, including software which utilises machine learning and AI to extract data from documents.

Nick is a mentor for the start-ups taking part in MDR LAB and is the Firm's Head of PropTech. As part of this role, he has built technology products which help automate and streamline tasks and co-founded a commercial property start-up, Least. In 2019, Nick was named as one of the top 10 most innovative lawyers in Europe by the Financial Times.

Nick also collaborated with HM Land Registry on their Digital Street research and development initiative to complete the UK's first successful digitised end-to-end residential property transaction, and is working with a number of clients to facilitate the automatic exchange of property data.