What makes McCalmont-Woods different is that we take a holistic view of real estate from an occupier perspective. With over 40 years' experience the deep insight gained from advising a broad mix of businesses (ranging from small start-ups and SMEs to leading global brands) means McCalmont-Woods is ideally positioned to help both early-stage growth and more established companies to solve key real estate issues and optimise business performance.

McCalmont-Woods is regulated by RICS. Because we act only for corporate tenants and business space users we guarantee to provide unbiased and transparent occupier representation. We specialise in...

* office acquisitions and relocations (for lease or purchase);

* lease renewals, lease extensions, lease restructures and lease surrender negotiations;

* rent reviews and break option strategies, and

* strategic property planning and real estate consultancy.

We also manage the disposal of surplus office property and can offer expert advice on business rates, reinstatement and dilapidations strategy and workplace strategy.

Founder & CEO Nick McCalmont-Woods has more than 40 years' experience representing corporate office occupiers. These include...

Abbey Business Centres • Allen & Overy • Aon • Apex Group • Barclays • Bloomberg • BT • Cable & Wireless • Cazenove • Charles Schwab • Clifford Chance • Cooke Young & Keidan • Coopers & Lybrand • Coutts • CSFB • Deloitte Haskins & Sells • Hartree Partners • Hikma Pharmaceuticals • IBT Media • IFRS Foundation • International SOS • Ipes • J.P. Morgan • Kidder Peabody • Latham & Watkins • Legal & General • Prudential • Marketform • Markit Group • Minet • Neptune Energy • The Newspaper Society • Newsquest Media Group • Nomura • Orsted • Paine Webber • Reach • Ricoh • Schroders • SunGard • Swiss Volksbank • TATA Communications • Town Legal • Turquoise • Warburg Dillon Read • Verio • Weightmans • World Gold Council • Woven Solutions Group • Zambia National Commercial Bank • Zurich Financial Services

On joining international real estate consultants Jones Lang Wootton/JLL in London in 1984 he specialised initially in Landlord & Tenant and various property related tax matters before transferring to the firm’s City of London offices agency team advising both landlords and tenants, becoming a Partner in 1995. After 16 years he joined GVA Grimley to help grow its London City office which he did and while at GVA he also co-founded GVA Connect, a successful data-centre advisory business. He was made Equity Partner in 2001.

He devised and completed the City of London's first ‘off-plan' or 'build to suit' office pre-letting at 20 Moorgate EC2 (155,000 sg ft) for The Queen's financial advisors Cazenove & Co and over a long career in commercial real estate he has, to date, advised on over 16 million sq ft offices. Since founding McCalmont-Woods in early 2008 he has successfully negotiated in excess of GBP £260m lease contracts while saving more than GBP £65m costs on behalf a broad mix of corporate clients.