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Kuljeet Gill

Partner
Head of Governments & Strategic Projects

Kuljeet is a partner in our Company Commercial Practice Group.

Kuljeet is a member of our Governments and Infrastructure sector group’s senior management team and leads our Governments and Strategic Project subsector. She also leads our team in the delivery of partnership and joint venture structures for large-scale regeneration and development projects across the UK advising on methods and structures for land pooling and for capturing land value and profit share over the course of long-term partnerships.

Kuljeet has over 20 years’ experience of advising public sector and private sector clients on appropriate delivery structures, including corporate vehicles and contractual arrangements, regularly leading options appraisals and business case reviews to develop the optimum delivery structure. She is a leader in her field in relation to property-based joint ventures and has led and managed numerous large-scale public procurements.

Kuljeet has extensive exprience in leading on major projects for both the public and private sector clients, including:

  • Leading our team advising the University of Manchester on their £1.5bn innovation district project, to be delivered via a joint venture with Bruntwood SciTech and involving the University investing its land assets as equity into the joint venture
  • Advising developers, funders and contractors on their joint venture arrangements to bring forward major development schemes across the UK, including where they are bidding into schemes being promoted by the public sector
  • Advising public sector bodies as to how they may joint venture with private sector developers/investors to bring forward large scale development/regeneration schemes including advising on co-investment joint venture models, utilising the public sector asset base as equity alongside private sector investment
  • Leading our team advising Manchester Airport Plc on its flagship £800m Airport City development involving a multi-party joint venture including Greater Manchester Pension Fund and Beijing Construction Engineering Group (a Chinese investor into the partnership) – a scheme, described by (then) Chancellor George Osborne "as the largest regeneration project since Olympic Park", delivering 5m sq. ft of development over 10-15 years, comprising offices, hotels, advanced manufacturing, logistics, warehousing
  • Advising on the optimum delivery vehicles for a number of major strategic land projects in the UK to create new districts/settlements within the UK by pooling land interests and investment
  • Advising a large London authority on its major development projects delivered via joint ventures between the public and private sector, including establishing a 10 year framework enabling selected development partners to enter into corporate joint ventures with members of its corporate family to bring forward the development of 50+ sites in London and subsequently advising on the development of specific sites brought forward through that framework

Over her career, Kuljeet has presented at many industry and client events.

  • Kuljeet was recently listed by legal industry publication, The Lawyer, as one of its coveted ‘Hot 100’ for 2022 – an accolade given annually to those recognised by the publication as the most daring, innovative and creative lawyers from in-house, private practice and the Bar.  Kuljeet was described in the Lawyer’s ‘Hot 100’ write-up as: “…The leading light of the firm’s [Eversheds Sutherland] niche sector group dubbed ‘Governments and Strategic Projects’.”

  • The Legal 500 UK Top Tier 2012

Kuljeet is passionate about Diversity & Inclusion and is a member of our company commercial practice group's Diversity & Inclusion champions network. 

Diploma in Legal Practice, Nottingham Trent University, 1997 - 1998

LLB (Hons), University of Bristol (including one year at the Universitat de Barcelona), 1993 - 1997

A Levels, Cheltenham Ladies College - 1990 - 1992

Kuljeet Gill

Partner

Head of Governments & Strategic Projects

Kuljeet Gill

Partner

Head of Governments & Strategic Projects

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