Property finance & banking
Our team regularly acts on a broad range of property finance matters. Reflecting our core real estate practice we have experience of funding a very wide range of property assets and businesses.
Expertise
Broad experience
The team advise on property finance, acquisition finance, asset based lending, general corporate lending, structured finance and restructuring.Practical and commercial advice
We are recognised as being practical and commercial in the advice we give to our clients, using our sound technical knowledge to manage legal risk cost-effectively. Our team comprises lawyers versed in finance law and property law which enables us to give joined-up advice grounded in a thorough understanding of all the issues affecting the transactions on which we advise.Sector specialism
We believe that the breadth of our property finance practice is second to none and includes: development and investment facilities across all sectors; senior and mezzanine debt; the financing of offices, retail and industrial property; loans on residential property, ranging from high-value apartments and country houses to mainstream residential development and investment; restructuring of property loans, both solvent and insolvent; structured finance and the purchase and sale of bonds issued on the security of commercial property; evaluating loan-to-own propositions and buying and selling debt portfolios and positions in syndicated loans; advising on the financing of operating businesses in, among others, the student accommodation, healthcare and leisure sectors.
Track Record
- Advising a joint venture on its borrowings for the purchase and
refurbishment of a City office building
- Advising a private individual on the refinancing of a large
country house
- Advising AIB on numerous investment and development loans
- Advising the borrower on the €100m financing of its acquisition
and refurbishment of a European hotel
- Advising a UK building society on a £25m facility secured on a
mid-town office building
- Advising two listed property companies on the restructuring of
their £60m debt funding of a leisure asset in Scotland
- Advising a property fund management company on the
restructuring of various facilities with RBS, Eurohypo, Nationwide
and Bradford & Bingley
- Advising a real estate opportunity fund on its equity
subscription facilities with RBS and Westdeutsche Landesbank
- Advising a regional property developer on the restructuring of
its £113m facilities with Bank of Ireland
- Advising a German bank on its financings of a central London
office building and a suburban shopping centre
- Advising a provider of student accommodation on three
development fundings for central London student accommodation
projects each c. £50m
- Advising Bank of Scotland on over £1bn of financings in the
healthcare sector
- Advising an opportunity fund on its senior borrowings and
mezzanine borrowings to fund the acquisition of an iconic
Birmingham retail and leisure destination
“service is prompt and efficient”
Legal 500 2012