Real estate finance

Our real estate finance team is a multi-disciplinary group of experts with wide-ranging experience of working with UK and overseas banks and specialist non-bank lenders, as well as with investors, developers, public authorities and housing providers on all types of financing from plain vanilla lending and borrowing through to complex, cross-border tax structured transactions.

Acting for both borrowers and lenders, in respect of both conventional and Sharia'h compliant financing, gives us a broad perspective on the requirements of differing market participants and the understanding that this gives us means we are able to offer robust legal advice, framed in a commercial context, for the financing of all types of real estate asset.

Whether you require assistance with a straightforward investment loan or a complex cross border financing you will benefit from the expertise of specialists in finance as well as firm’s broader expertise in real estate, tax, corporate and construction and our genuine sector focus ensures that we bring in-depth market experience alongside our multi-disciplinary approach so that you can be assured that we have the resources and know how to manage and deliver your project.

Our experience in real estate finance includes transactions on single and multi-let investments, development, redevelopment and landmark regeneration projects and the corporate structured investment vehicles that are carrying out such projects. We are particularly well known for our work in the build to rent, healthcare, hotels and student accommodation sectors.

In brief

• Extensive experience across all types of debt and equity structure and techniques used to finance real estate transactions
• A leader in housing finance, including our pioneering work on financing structures for local housing companies
• Experts in Islamic finance
• Specialists in development finance for alternative asset classes including build to rent and student accommodation