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Real Estate Finance

Our real estate finance practice has established an outstanding reputation for complex real estate finance transactions across a range of real estate asset classes. We provide a cohesive and flexible service across the wide range of disciplines that are fundamental to modern real estate finance transactions.

We offer advice to a varied client base that includes lenders and borrowers, developers and investors, corporates, funds, hotel owners and operators as well as UK and overseas high-net-worth individuals and trusts.　

Our range of services includes advising on:

  • real estate investment finance;
  • real estate development finance;
  • intercreditor negotiations involving multi-layered capital structures;
  • whole-loan financing;
  • loan-to-own transactions;
  • PRS/build-to-rent financings;
  • student accommodation financings;
  • hotel financings;
  • facilities to high-net-worth individuals buying or refinancing residential properties in central London; and
  • real estate restructurings and enforcements.

Recent work

Supermarket Income REIT

Advising Supermarket Income REIT plc (SUPR) on a £100m unsecured term and revolving credit facilities agreement provided by ING Bank NV, London Branch.

AIG

Advising AIG on the refinancing of a premier central London hotel owned by an international hotel group.

Canary Wharf Group

Advising Canary Wharf Group in relation to the £200m infrastructure facility from the Homes and Communities Agency for the development of the infrastructure for the new Wood Wharf development in London.

ING Bank N.V.

Advising ING Bank N.V. on an investment facility to the New Bond Street JV II Unit Trust for the acquisition of 48-50 New Bond Street.

Legal & General

Advising Legal & General on development facilities in order to fund the development of residential units in Walthamstow, Salford and Bath and residential property in Crowthorne.

Legal & General

Advising Legal & General on a £25m eighteen-year bilateral loan to refinance Goodricke College, a student accommodation building owned jointly by the University of York and Evans Property Group.

LaSalle Investment Management

Advising LaSalle Investment Management as mezzanine lender, regarding an investment facility provided to the Ability Group, originally entered into for the acquisition of two hotels operated by Hilton. We also advised on a new mezzanine development facility for the extension of one of the hotels.

Rocket Investments

Advising Rocket Investments on £240m senior and mezzanine facilities to finance the development of The Atlas Building, City Road, London EC1, which will comprise a mixture of high-end residential, office and retail space.

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Bretherton Laura

Laura Bretherton

Partner
+44 (0)20 7849 2215 Email Laura
Morgan Colin

Colin Morgan

 Partner
+44 (0)20 7849 2456 Email Colin
Bains Jat

Jat Bains

 Partner
+44 (0)20 7849 2234 Email Jat

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"They excel at coordinating transactions involving multiple jurisdictions with other legal counsel and compiling advice therefrom in order to deliver a unified legal advice to their client."

The UK Legal 500 2023

"Macfarlanes has strong commercial awareness and has a particularly good handle on market trends."

Chambers UK 2023

"Very professional, well informed, technically strong and reliable team. Always seek to deliver and always meet deadlines. Very high quality across all the team. Easy to deal with."

The UK Legal 500 2023

"The Macfarlanes property finance team is very responsive, proactive and collaborative across specialties. No transaction is too complex for them, and they have a solid handle on market trends across sectors. The client experience is seamless."

The UK Legal 500 2023

"The team are highly knowledgeable and efficient."

Chambers UK 2023

"The team are not only very personable and easy to work alongside, but also brilliant technically. Their depth of market knowledge and insight is particularly beneficial to us."

Chambers UK 2022