Daniyal Ansari

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Daniyal focuses on all aspects of real estate finance. With over 20 years of experience acting for lenders and borrowers in relation to investment and development dacilities across asset classes, he has extensive experience in development and multi-tiered capital structures involving increditor arrangements.

Daniyal has acted on loan-on-loan financings, loan sales, workouts, receivables financing, LBOs and restructurings of leveraged and real estate financings. He also acts for lenders in relation to fund financings such NAV facilities and subscription lines.

Daniyal is an active member of the firm's Digital Infrastructure Industry Group and is actively involved in the developing real estate finance market for data centres. Daniyal is recognised in both the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners directories and described in Legal 500 as "technically excellent."

Legal 500 testimonials also state:

Daniyal Ansari pulls together the team and has respect on both sides of a deal in order to provide workable solutions."

"Daniyal Ansari is a class act - technically excellent, innovative, committed and commercial. His ability to get people around a table and agree a way forward is very impressive."

Awards & Accolades

• Listed, Lawdragon, 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers, 2024-2025
• Listed, The Legal 500 UK, 2023-2026
  • "Commercial Property: Development; 2023
  • "Commercial Property: Investment; 2023
  • "Property Finance: 2023-2026

Experience

• A London-based credit fund on the c.€100m development financing of two PBSA projects in Italy.
• A London-based special situations lender on separate transactions for the development financing of assets in the student, hospitality and residential sectors in the UK, Italy and Austria.
• JPMorgan on the financing of a UK-based cold storage facility.
• AgFe in relation to commercial ground rent related financings.
• A syndicate of German lenders led by Berlin Hyp on the €435m financing of mixed-use commercial and residential developments in and around Amsterdam.
• Lloyds Bank plc on a range of transactions including: as senior lender under a c. £140m financing of the acquisition and development by Harrison Street of a portfolio of STEM parks across the UK; the £160m senior and mezzanine investment financing of the Thistle hotels group and the £108m senior and mezzanine financing (with PGIM as mezzanine lender) of the development of three PBSA projects in Manchester, Glasgow and Newcastle; the financing of an office asset in Jersey; and the c.£183m financing of a flexible office business with sites across the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands.
• Lodha Developers on a series of transactions: the £517m development financing from M&G Investment Management of the iconic £1bn development at No.1 Grosvenor Square, London W1; the £340m financing of its development at No.1 Grosvenor Square provided by Cale Street Partners LLP; and the £98.5m financing of its development at Lincoln Square, London provided by M&G Investment Management.
• M&G Investment Management on a series of transactions including a £230m financing made available to an international developer in connection with the financing of a predominantly residential portfolio of branded residences, the £80m senior investment financing of an office building in London and the £60m financing of a hotel in Queens Gate, London.
• ICG Longbow as lender of £177m development financing for JTRE London of a£400m mixed use development on the South Bank in London known as Triptych Bankside.
• Cheyne Capital on its £137m senior development financing of Regal London's development known as Shoreditch Exchange.
• DWS on a series of mezzanine and whole loan transactions since 2014 relating to investment and development assets in the UK (office assets in Hanover Square and Queen Anne's Gate), Netherlands (PBSA and BTR) and Spain (Madrid shopping centres) and secondary loan acquisitions in the senior living and PBSA sectors.
• Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG including the £68m financing of a retail and office asset in Mayfair, London.
• Sculptor Capital Management in relation to its £36m development financing of a PBSA project in Liverpool.

All experiences are prior to joining Clyde & Co