Our multidisciplinary team are experienced at transacting across all core sectors and work closely together to deliver commercial and solution-orientated advice.
Our sector expertise covers:
Office
- Advised Aberdeen Standard Investments in connection with a £75m syndicated loan facilities agreement to certain subsidiaries of RDI REIT plc to refinance a portfolio of 4 London serviced offices
- Acted for Hengli Group on the £170m re-financing of its acquisition of the Lloyds Bank plc headquarters building at 25 Gresham Street, London
Retail
- Acted for Criterion Capital in relation to the £1bn syndicated facility from Aviva Commercial Finance secured on a £2bn portfolio, including London Trocadero, Criterion Theatre/Buildings, Piccadilly, Slough Shopping Centre and East India Dock
- Acted for Tribeca Holdings in connection with the £230m senior and mezzanine financing of a portfolio of luxury retail properties in Knightsbridge
Student Accommodation
- Acted for UPP, the UK's leading provider of on-campus student accommodation, on the acquisition financing of the freehold for 411 student accommodation rooms at the Bay Campus, Swansea
- Acted for ICBC in connection with a senior loan facility to UNINN, the UK student accommodation provider, to refinance a portfolio of four operational student accommodation assets totalling 640 beds
Islamic Finance
- Acted for Bank of London and The Middle East plc in relation to a Murabaha development facility for High Street Residential Group for the development of Newcastle's highest building, Hadrian's Tower
- Advising Rasmala Investment Bank and Gulf Islamic Investments on their joint acquisition of two Amazon logistic facilities and a Decathlon superstore in Dortmund, Germany through a Sharia compliant joint venture structure financed with Deka Bank
Hotels & Leisure
- Acted for Svenska Handelsbanken AB (publ) as lender in connection with a £61,200,000 facility for refinancing the acquisition of The Midland Hotel in Manchester by a subsidiary of Pandox AB
- Acted for ICBC in connection with a senior loan facility to a borrower sponsored by Ability Hotel Group to finance the corporate acquisition of the property holding vehicle for the Tamburlaine Hotel, Cambridge
Logistics
- Acted for Investec Bank plc in respect of its loan to Valor Real Estate Partners (the pan European logistics and industrial real estate investor) to fund the speculative development of a 153,000 sq ft urban logistics park in Mitcham, south London
- Acted for Helaba on the £197m facility for London Metric Properties plc secured on a portfolio of logistics / distribution centres
PRS / Build To Rent
- Acted for Barclays Bank plc on the multi-phased development finance of a portfolio of PRS properties for a Gatehouse Bank and Sigma Capital partnership
- Acted for Dandara Limited on the acquisition, development, funding and sale of over 2,000 units of residential accommodation for the PRS market in Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds
Residential
- Acted for HSBC in connection with a £65m RCF for Inland Homes for the acquisition and development of homes focussed on South East England
Healthcare
- Acted for Fortwell Capital Limited on a variety of transactions including various cross-collateralised development and refinancing loans to MACC Group secured on two care homes (one existing and one to be developed) and a senior loan to the developer, Goldenstone, for a mixed use scheme in Ealing
- Acting for Coutts & Company in respect of a £15m term loan facility to Hallmark Care Homes to refinance the acquisition of Arlington Manor Care Home in Cambridge
Development
- Acted for a club of international banks on the +£285m refinancing and development finance in connection with a mixed-use property in Mayfair, Central London, incorporating residential, hotel office and retail
- Acted for National Westminster Bank plc and AIB Group (UK) p.l.c. on the £66m development financing of a luxury hotel conversion at the former Bow Street Magistrates Court
