Welcome to our 2008 edition of Property Matters!

‘May you live in interesting times’ is the English translation of an ancient Chinese proverb and curse. Nobody can deny that things are ‘interesting’ but we see this as a time of new challenges and opportunities both for our clients and for ourselves. We have focused on some of these in our round table discussion. The Firm as a whole continues to flourish having taken on a record number of new recruits during the last two years. Many of these have been in our Real Estate Department which now accounts for 25% of our business overall. Some of our new colleagues appear in Mishcon People. We will in the next few months be welcoming further new joiners in real estate litigation and a specialist residential team. We are particularly delighted to have made up commercial real estate assistant John England to partner earlier this year, see Mishcon People.

The Firm has been recognised as being a great place to work, having been nominated one of the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For 2008 and coming in at number 65 in the listing of the UK’s top employers.

I hope you enjoy this edition of Property Matters! and look forward to working with you all in the months ahead.

Nick Doffman Head of Real Estate nick.doffman@mishcon.com