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Real Estate Finance

Our real estate finance team support clients across the property lifecycle

Our real estate finance team works with clients globally to achieve their strategic objectives, wherever you or the property are located. We have the expertise required to advise you on the full range of real estate finance transactions, from standard structures to the most complex deals and funding arrangements. We advise on restructuring portfolios, securing financing for a development, refinancing or releasing equity for acquisitions, structuring funds to attract investors and maximising tax efficiency.

We act for the full range of real estate sector clients from landowners, private individuals, international property developers, property investment companies and property funds to major financial institutions, challenger banks, mezzanine lenders and building societies.

Working closely with market participants on a recurring basis ensures that we understand the inherent intricate real estate refinancing and restructuring issues. We have particular expertise in the commercial, residential, industrial, hospitality, healthcare, student accommodation and retail property sectors.

We are highly regarded for our work on high value complex transactions and provide a multi-disciplinary team which combines the expertise of our banking, real estate, corporate, construction, planning, tax, restructuring and dispute resolution know-how. This ensures that clients benefit from one dedicated client-centric team throughout the course of financing their real estate transactions.

Our Real Estate Finance Work

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  • Africa
  • Asia Pacific
  • Middle East
  • North America
  • UK & Europe
  • ICC arbitration regarding the termination of a joint development and funding agreement

    Advising a Moroccan real estate developer in an ICC arbitration regarding the termination of a joint development and funding agreement

    Morocco

    Establishing a Sharia compliant investment vehicle in Jersey

    Advising on establishing and structuring of a Jersey-based Sharia compliant investment vehicle facilitating Qatari investment in prime London property assets

    Qatar

    Joint ventures and financing for luxury accommodation owners

    Advising the owners of a five-star hotel and apartment complex in Doha’s West Bay area on joint ventures and financing arrangements with a consortium of banks (led by Commercial Bank) and on the hotel management suite of agreements.

    Qatar

    Multi-jurisdictional joint venture investment structuring

    Advising on a multi-jurisdiction investment structure spanning the British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong and China to enable a joint venture between US and Italian investors to invest in Chinese real estate opportunities

    British Virgin Islands

    USD 1 billion acquisition financing for 15 plots on The Pearl-Qatar

    Negotiating USD 1 billion facilities for developers to acquire 15 plots on The Pearl-Qatar, an artificial island spanning nearly four million square metres, including drafting a security package involving assignments, refund guarantee's, and escrow arrangements

    Qatar

    Australian Real Estate experience

    Acting for a leading telecommunications company in relation to their disposal program, commercial leases, agreements for lease, all aspects of their mobile facilities and the tender and sales processes of a wide range of sites.

    Acting for a major national service provider in relation to disposals, property development and its significant leasing portfolio.

    Acting for various residential developers in relation to ‘Putney Hill’, the redevelopment of the Ryde...

    Australia

    £110,000,000 development financing

    Advising a Hong Kong property investment company on the £110,000,000 development financing provided by Bank of East Asia for the construction of an office, residential and retail development in central London

    Hong Kong

    £24,000,000 term loan facility

    Advising a substantial Hong Kong property company on a circa £24,000,000 term loan facility, secured by a portfolio of 24 industrial estates throughout the UK

    Hong Kong

    Debt financing arrangements for the development of the Calpham One mixed use residential-led project

    Advising the developer in relation to its senior debt financing arrangements for the development of the Clapham One mixed use residential-led project in Clapham

    United Kingdom

    Property investment facility from Lloyds

    Advising a global insurance company on a £7,800,000 property investment facility from Lloyds

    United Kingdom
  • ICC arbitration regarding the termination of a joint development and funding agreement

    Advising a Moroccan real estate developer in an ICC arbitration regarding the termination of a joint development and funding agreement

    Morocco
  • Australian Real Estate experience

    Acting for a leading telecommunications company in relation to their disposal program, commercial leases, agreements for lease, all aspects of their mobile facilities and the tender and sales processes of a wide range of sites.

    Acting for a major national service provider in relation to disposals, property development and its significant leasing portfolio.

    Acting for various residential developers in relation to ‘Putney Hill’, the redevelopment of the Ryde...

    Australia

    £24,000,000 term loan facility

    Advising a substantial Hong Kong property company on a circa £24,000,000 term loan facility, secured by a portfolio of 24 industrial estates throughout the UK

    Hong Kong

    £110,000,000 development financing

    Advising a Hong Kong property investment company on the £110,000,000 development financing provided by Bank of East Asia for the construction of an office, residential and retail development in central London

    Hong Kong
  • USD 1 billion acquisition financing for 15 plots on The Pearl-Qatar

    Negotiating USD 1 billion facilities for developers to acquire 15 plots on The Pearl-Qatar, an artificial island spanning nearly four million square metres, including drafting a security package involving assignments, refund guarantee's, and escrow arrangements

    Qatar

    Establishing a Sharia compliant investment vehicle in Jersey

    Advising on establishing and structuring of a Jersey-based Sharia compliant investment vehicle facilitating Qatari investment in prime London property assets

    Qatar

    Joint ventures and financing for luxury accommodation owners

    Advising the owners of a five-star hotel and apartment complex in Doha’s West Bay area on joint ventures and financing arrangements with a consortium of banks (led by Commercial Bank) and on the hotel management suite of agreements.

    Qatar
  • Multi-jurisdictional joint venture investment structuring

    Advising on a multi-jurisdiction investment structure spanning the British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong and China to enable a joint venture between US and Italian investors to invest in Chinese real estate opportunities

    British Virgin Islands
  • Refinancing and capital reconstruction of a property developer

    Advising the arrangers and financiers in relation to the refinancing and capital reconstruction of a property developer and its portfolio of properties in Germany with a view to securitising the loans secured by the portfolio of properties

    Germany

    Debt financing arrangements for the development of the Calpham One mixed use residential-led project

    Advising the developer in relation to its senior debt financing arrangements for the development of the Clapham One mixed use residential-led project in Clapham

    United Kingdom

    Property investment facility from Lloyds

    Advising a global insurance company on a £7,800,000 property investment facility from Lloyds

    United Kingdom

    £75,000,000 development financing

    Advising the developer on a £75,000,000 development financing provided by Manchester City Council (as senior lender) and Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (as mezzanine lender) for the acquisition and construction of a mixed use three tower development comprising residential apartments, commercial units, retail units, restaurants and car parking in Manchester

    United Kingdom

    Advising on complex financing aspects of a £78,000,000 four star hotel

    Advising a UK developer on the complex financing aspects of a £78,000,000 four star hotel and residential apartment complex in Guildford, involving three levels of debt all with their own security including intercreditor arrangements, senior mezzanine debt and subordinated debt

    United Kingdom

    Commercial and residential property finance transactions

    Advising Deutsche Bank on several commercial and residential property finance transactions including GBP 3 million property finance of 85 Piccadilly, London; GBP 19.2 million property finance of 64 Avenue Road London; and GBP 10 million property finance of 159-165 Old Brompton Road for high net worth individuals

    United Kingdom

    Complex financing of a mixed-use regeneration scheme

    Advising the developer/borrower on the complex financing of a mixed-use regeneration scheme to transform the southern end of Bromley Town centre from a car park into a new residential and leisure quarter including a hotel,  cinema, restaurants, residential apartments, affordable housing and new car park

    United Kingdom

    Development of finance facility from Starwood

    Advising a developer in connection with a £178,000,000 development finance facility from Starwood Capital to fund the construction of the One Braham office tower in Aldgate, London

    United Kingdom

    Financing aspects of a complex mixed-use development

    Advising a UK developer on the financing aspects of a complex mixed-use development of a Sainsbury’s foodstore, retail units and residential apartments. The structure of the transaction was complicated by the fact that the development site had divided ownership. A part of the facility was to be used to on-lend to a separate JV entity that owned the land where the residential apartments were to be developed

    United Kingdom

    Financing of a residential development project in Holland Park

    Advising Credit Suisse on the £120,000,000 financing of a residential development project in Holland Park, London

    United Kingdom

Our Real Estate Finance team

Chris Lenton
Chris Lenton

Partner

Dean Gormley
Dean Gormley

Partner

Annabelle Redman
Annabelle Redman

Partner

Daniel Keys
Daniel Keys

Partner

Laura Oliver
Laura Oliver

Partner

Will Deeprose
Will Deeprose

Partner

Graeme Taylor
Graeme Taylor

Partner

Martin Quicke
Martin Quicke

Consultant

Alexis Waller
Alexis Waller

Partner

Keith Conway
Keith Conway

Partner

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