Caroline Dean

Partner

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What can I do for you

Caroline is a specialist real estate partner and lawyer specialising in real estate development work and landlord and tenant work. Caroline leads the firm's real estate team in Norwich.

Caroline's specialises in work for:

  • Landowners (residential and commercial development)
  • Corporate occupiers and RE aspects of corporate M & A
  • Charity sector clients
  • Science parks
  • Mines and minerals

What do others say

Legal 500 says that Caroline is quoted by clients as being " bright responsive and always pragmatic" and she heads up a team that is "very responsive and knowledgeable..and that has a strong sense of duty to the client". The team is Band 1 in both Legal 500 and Chambers and Caroline is a named Leading individual.

Supporting your ambitions

Caroline has worked closely with the various institutes at the Norwich Research Park for over a decade now to deliver a number of key real estate projects, which are all playing a part in the development of the Park and its recognition as a key hub of world leading science. 

Caroline has similarly worked with Norwich City Football Club for over two decades and over that time she has helped them complete a wholescale redevelopment of the land around their stadium and deliver real estate capital projects, which have supported their core business of football.

What else should you know?

Caroline is a Trainee Principal for Mills & Reeve which means she has overall responsibility for selecting our future lawyers who apply to be trainees with us and certifying their training when they qualify. In recruiting, we encourage diversity, promote social mobiliity and seek to identify excellent candidates to work with us and our clients for the long term.

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What our clients say about us

“I think Mills & Reeve are a wonderful firm. The support they have provided to us in a really difficult area has been brilliant, collaborative and commercially minded. The team were absolutely wonderful and a joy to work with. Amazing advice and support and a real collaborative effort with us. I can't thank them enough for getting us through some really tough times and doing so with an amazing can-do attitude.”

“They are friendly, fast, always available and always on top of the game. I tend to judge my legal team against the other side's legal team and never doubt Mills & Reeve is the better of the two.”

“All interactions have been very clear. Responses to questions have always been very swift and unambiguous. Our company, and my family, have used various services in Mills & Reeve with the same level of satisfaction.”

“I value the fact that Mills & Reeve are recognised as a good place to work in the UK Best Companies survey. This aligns with the values of our business and means that Mills & Reeve can share what is required to achieve this status with our business.”