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Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance
Real Estate Finance<br />

Real Estate Finance

Highly experienced real estate finance team

A team who works within a combined real estate finance, RMBS/CMBS and structured debt group and focus on real estate finance advising borrowers, lenders, lead managers and issuers on domestic and cross-border real estate financings, refinancings and restructurings.

Our dedicated real estate finance team comprises market leading individuals with a broad experience and a unique blend of professional know-how. Our real estate finance practitioners have an in-depth understanding of the commercial real estate sector and financing products in that market (e.g. bi-lateral loans, syndicated loans, sub-participated debt, mezzanine loans, development finance, CMBS/RMBS and other capital markets products).

For large-scale, multidisciplinary transactions we offer exceptional capacity to lead the deal, combining real estate, corporate, finance, capital markets, tax, restructuring, and dispute resolution know how.

Our Real Estate Finance expertise

CMBS/RMBS & CRE CLOs

CMBS/RMBS & CRE CLOs
CMBS/RMBS & CRE CLOs

Real estate infrastructure finance

Real estate infrastructure finance
Real estate infrastructure finance

Cross border and multi-jurisdiction finance

Cross border and multi-jurisdiction finance
Cross border and multi-jurisdiction finance

Back-leverage/loan-on-loans

Back-leverage/loan-on-loans
Back-leverage/loan-on-loans

Investment finance & Islamic real estate finance

Investment finance & Islamic real estate finance
Investment finance & Islamic real estate finance

Loan portfolio sales, purchases and financings

Loan portfolio sales, purchases and financings
Loan portfolio sales, purchases and financings

Development finance

Development finance
Development finance

Mezzanine/junior finance

Mezzanine/junior finance
Mezzanine/junior finance

Insolvency

Insolvency
Insolvency, restructurings, workouts and repackagings

Recent client highlights

  • Advised Bank of America and Goldman Sachs in their role as Joint Arrangers, Joint Lead Managers and Risk Retention Holders on Cassia 2022-1, a €235.5 million agented CMBS issuance secured over separate portfolios of logistics properties located in Italy.
  • Advised Rothesay Life PLC on providing a 10 year senior term loan to Lendlease for the acquisition of 21 Moorfields for £809 million. 21 Moorfields is a 568,500 sq ft premium office development in the City of London.
 
 
  • We advised a global investment management firm on the financing of an acquisition of two private equity funds, with more than which has more than €1 billion in assets under management. The target portfolio includes multiple hotels, golf courses, land and residential properties, amongst other assets.
  • We advised Bain Capital Credit on arranging a new capital stream for Linus Digital Finance, reaffirming the firm's ever-growing focus on financial investors. The €183m loan-on-loan funding deal is designated to expand Linus Digital Finance's real estate financing across Europe, with initial focus on the UK and Germany, whilst enabling Bain Capital Credit to create a new strategic partnership to support Linus Digital Finance’s growth trajectory and as part of its broader European real estate investment portfolio.

 
  • We advised Vantage Data Centers UK on the lease receivables derived from the client agreements entered into by the data centre owner. This is a first in the European market based on similar transactions in the U.S. market.
  • "They're leaders in this field and we turn to them for the most challenging and sophisticated matters. They never disappoint." Client, Band 1 Chambers UK, Real Estate Finance.
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