Our Private Credit and Special Situations team has extensive experience advising on primary and secondary debt-equity financings, acting for stakeholders – both creditor and debtor-side. We have particular expertise in the real estate special situations space.
Our team has a deep understanding of flexible capital deployment, and we are familiar with complex instruments across the stack – regularly negotiating capital solutions including mezzanine debt, preferred equity and other hybrids. We can deliver innovative, bespoke solutions to ensure deals are effectively structured and executed, helping clients to maximise risk-adjusted returns.
We also bring unique perspectives gained from industry, including first hand in-house legal knowledge. Clients value our practical experience of asset management and our focus on downside protection, helping market participants to achieve their commercial goals.
We offer a full service and can quickly mobilise multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional experts, including tax, regulatory, real estate, private equity and corporate specialists to deliver a seamless and user-friendly product.
Our Expertise
Flexible Capital Deployment in Structured Real Estate Transactions
- Advising on the £100m acquisition financing of a portfolio of caravan parks in the UK.
- Advising on the €100m debt-equity financing to acquire and develop luxury hotels, chalets and residences in the French Alps.
- Advising on the debt-to-equity restructuring of a premier French golf, hotel and residential development.
- Advising on the restructuring of a £90m German and Dutch residential development group, including enforcement in Germany and third-party loan-on-loan financing to acquire structurally senior local bank debt.
- Advising on the restructuring of debt financing to a Spanish residential development, effected by Luxco share pledge enforcement.
- Advising on the £100m development financing of PBSA assets in the UK, with subsequent refinancings and restructurings.
- Advising on the €70m acquisition financing of Spanish residential development.
- Advising on the €50m financing of suburban Madrid residential development, subsequent restructuring.
- Advising on the €50m refinancing and development of Spanish affordable housing and other residential assets.
Innovative Structuring and Execution of Bespoke Private Capital Transactions
- Advising a multi-family office on the restructuring and refinancing of a £100m UK hotel portfolio.
- Advising Intriva Capital in relation to its €300m joint venture build-to-rent platform with Node.
- Advising on a bespoke junior financing solution provided to a Singapore property development group.
Expert Counsel on Preferred and Structured Equity Investments
- Advising on the €100m debt-equity financing to acquire and develop luxury hotels, chalets and residences in the French Alps.
- Advising Peterson Group in connection with the debt-equity acquisition financing of the historical GSK Headquarters in Brentford, West London.
Legal Support for Niche and Emerging Finance Platforms
- Advising on a €150m financing of a platform to acquire and develop social housing in Ireland.
- Advising on a UK consumer lending platform to fund legal processes in the UK, including divorce and contentious probate.
- Advising on a UK consumer lending platform to lend to annuity holders.
- Advising on a litigation funding platform to finance Dieselgate claims in Germany.
- Advising on a specialty finance platform to lend to offshore borrowers to acquire new build residential real estate in Australia.
Comprehensive Legal Services for Asset-backed Lending and Finance
- Advising on a €150m financing of a platform to acquire and develop social housing in Ireland.
- Advising on a UK consumer lending platform to fund legal processes in the UK, including divorce and contentious probate.
- Advising on a UK consumer lending platform to lend to annuity holders.
- Advising on a litigation funding platform to finance Dieselgate claims in Germany.
- Advising on a specialty finance platform to lend to offshore borrowers to acquire new build residential real estate in Australia.
