Nicholas Kirby
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. · Mishcon de Reya LLP
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Partner in the Real Estate department at Mishcon de Reya LLP, specialising in commercial real estate transactions for institutional and private clients including investment and corporate real estate acquisitions and sales, development, property management and landlord/tenant work. He leads the firm's PropTech activity—researching machine‑learning and AI document-extraction software, mentoring start-ups in MDR LAB, co-founding the commercial property start-up Least, and collaborating with HM Land Registry on the Digital Street digitised end-to-end residential transaction; in 2019 he was named one of the top 10 most innovative lawyers in Europe by the Financial Times.