Real Estate Finance
Our Real Estate Finance team couples industry expertise with thoroughness and a commitment to excellent service. You can rely on us to use our technical expertise and pragmatism to find the best solution for you.
What is involved with real estate finance?
Our Real Estate Finance team couples industry expertise with thoroughness and a commitment to excellent service. You can rely on us to use our technical expertise and pragmatism to find the best solution for you.
Whether it’s straight forward asset backed finance or more unconventional structures, there is not much our (mainly ex-City) team don’t have experience of. Investment loans, development facilities, grant funding, portfolio funding, profit share arrangements, restructuring and enforcement, syndicated debt and tax based structured finance. We deal with all of these and more on a day-to-day basis for all types of companies.
Our talented team is well balanced between acting for borrower, investment and development companies, and lender clients across the country. Freeths have a nationally renowned Real Estate team, which when combined with our esteemed Real Estate Finance team results in top quality legal and financial advice. You can relax in the knowledge that we have extensive experience within all areas of commercial property.
We regularly advise on debt finance for the healthcare and student accommodation sectors, as well as mixed use and residential development schemes. We also often advise mezzanine and other specialist lenders from the non-bank sector.
Key contacts
Andrew Nichol
Liverpool Office Managing Partner
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Why choose our real estate finance team?
- Our experienced Real Estate lawyers can be relied upon to be responsive, prompt and available 24/7
- We work with lenders and borrowers across the UK and advise on multi-million pound arrangements daily – industry expertise at your fingertips
- We recognise that financing and refinancing can be very time sensitive and are well used to working in incredibly tight time frames
Call our Real Estate Finance lawyers now to discuss how we can help you.
Notable work
- Advising the issuer on a £100 million mortgage bond issue secured against a portfolio of commercial properties.
- Acting for Waterfield group on its £30 million plus refinancing and new facilities for all group entities to support a portfolio of circa £100 million.
- Development funding for three new GP surgeries with community facilities. This involved complicated land assembly and security arrangements, pre-lets to GP surgeries, NHS, Pharmacies and local business, interplay with grant funding.
- Acting for a student accommodation developer and operator on total loans in excess of £100 million including both development and investment facilities.
- Acting for the lender on a £150 million debt portfolio secured against a mixture of investment and development properties and the subsequent restructuring of the same.
- Acting for the developer on a £100 million funding and profit share arrangement with a leading property plc (included a mezzanine facility for the development of multiple projects).
- Advising on the joint venture of two long standing clients on the legal aspects of the acquisition of a business park in Nottingham.
- Advising a fund in relation to its mezzanine loan facilities secured against UK real estate, total loan amounts ranging between £40 million and £75 million.
- Acting for a Middle-Eastern investor on the funding (and related purchase) of 11 off-plan luxury apartments in central London, with a total value of over £20 million.
- Led the real estate advice to a client on the sale of a portfolio of 23 UK-wide residential and nursing care properties to a US REIT in a £75.8 million sale and leaseback arrangement.
- Advising a property developer in connection with a £21.5 million Sharia compliant development loan facility to refinance the acquisition and fund the development of a mixed use site in South London.
“Freeths find the best practical and commercial solutions to complicated issues.”
Chambers & Partners, 2024
“They are very much trusted advisers who consistently provide prompt and timely advice that is in tune with our commercial objectives.”
Chambers & Partners, 2024
"Fantastic attention to detail and great responsiveness to client needs."
The Legal 500, 2023
Meet the team
Chris Freeston
Nottingham Office Managing Partner & National Head of Banking & Finance
Andrew Nichol
Liverpool Office Managing Partner
Patrick Adie
National Head of Housebuilding & Strategic Land
Emna Sfar-Gandoura
Partner
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