Real estate finance

We act for senior debt and mezzanine funders as well as advising borrowers. Our clients include major financial institutions, banks, private equity houses and high net worth individuals. We have been appointed to numerous panels, acting for various lending clients over many years.

Whether you are a funder or borrower, our real estate finance lawyers provide commercially focussed advice aimed at ensuring deals are completed within the required time frames whilst still protecting your interests. Our role is more than simply knowing the law on property finance, it is about applying our business acumen and experience to the deal to get it done in a timely and efficient way.

Our specialisms include:

• Development finance
• Commercial finance
• Bridging finance
• Mezzanine finance
• Sale of loan portfolios
• Complex inter-creditor agreements
• Servicing requirements
• Advising on enforcement of security
• Bilateral & syndicated loan agreements.

We also prepare and advise on all documentation involved from term sheets and facility agreements through to security documentation.

The team works very closely with our Banking & finance, Construction and Planning colleagues.

Our Real Estate lawyers, based in Kent but acting for clients nationally, form one of the largest and most experienced teams in the region. We offer commercial advice and a London style service that helps you achieve your objectives as swiftly and cost effectively as possible.

We place an emphasis on understanding your commercial strategies and tailoring our services accordingly. We act for a wide variety of commercial clients including businesses, individuals, house builders and developers, pension funds, retailers, restauranteurs, charities, lenders, local authorities and other public sector organisations.

Our Real Estate lawyers practice in areas including:

• Acquisitions and disposals
• Portfolio asset management
• Commercial and residential development
• Real estate finance
• Agricultural property
• Planning
• Construction
• Real estate disputes.

The size of the team and level of experience and expertise that we have, means that we can deploy specialist Real Estate lawyers at all levels, as appropriate. We can also draw on support from the firm’s very strong Corporate, Commercial, Employment and Private Wealth teams.