Based in London and with offices in New York, Mishcon de Reya has been servicing an international community of clients for over 80 years. With over 100 fee earners and 32 partners and legal directors, our Real Estate department comprises around 25% of the Firm's business. Our specialist practice areas include asset management, construction, development, investment, planning, property litigation, property technology, residential and tax.
Technology is embedded in our articulated 10 year vision. We have an in-house incubator, MDR LAB, which mentors start-ups developing products in the legal space and a dedicated prop tech team within Real Estate, working on projects involving AI, automation tools, structured databases and visualisation of client data on maps. Our proptech work has been nominated for the FT Innovative Lawyer Awards and the Estates Gazette Tech Awards and our Firm was awarded "Best Use of Technology" at the British Legal Awards 2017 and "Innovation in the Business of Law:Technology" at the FT Innovative Lawyer Awards 2017. We also chair the Accord Project Construction Working Group which is collaborating on the digitisation of real estate contracts.