Steven Shone
Lawyer
Managing Partner
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CMS, China
2801 Plaza 66, Tower 2
1266 Nanjing Road West
Shanghai 200040, China
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Steven qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales in 1982 and became a partner in Nabarro Nathanson in London in 1987. He joined its office in Warsaw, Poland (a joint operation with Weil, Gotshal & Manges) in 1992 to establish a specialized real estate practice. He joined McKenna & Co (now CMS Cameron McKenna) in 1997 and went on to head its Central and Eastern European real estate team. He also served as the Managing Partner of the CMS Warsaw office until moving to Moscow in 2003 to establish what is now one of Russia's leading real estate practices. Steven serves on the Management Committee of CMS in London with responsibility for promoting the development of its international practice and on the Emerging Markets sub-Committee of the CMS Executive. His professional focus is now on the emerging markets of the BRIC countries and he moved to China in late 2009 to serve as Managing Partner of CMS, China.
In the course of 28 years of legal practice Steven has advised clients on transactions worth many billions of dollars in aggregate. In London he represented major US and UK banks on corporate real estate matters, as well as real estate developers, investors and end-users. In his international practice for the last 18 years, he has represented both borrowers and lenders in real estate financing deals, institutional and other investors, major end-users, other professional advisers and many of the leading international developers. He has been an active member of the CMS Hotels & Leisure Sector Group and has experience of acting for investors, developers and hoteliers. As possibly the first specialist real estate lawyer ever to live and work permanently outside his home jurisdiction, Steven was a pioneer of the globalization of real estate investment on the professional services front. He and his teams have consistently been in the top rankings of the peer-review based international legal directories in the countries in which he has been based and he is well-known as a leading specialist in emerging markets. He is a member of the Institute of Directors, CoreNET Global (formerly NACORE) and the Urban Land Institute. He has often lectured and written on issues of real estate law.
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