PRACTICE AREA

Real Estate Finance

Overview

Acuity Law specialises in real estate finance, with a veteran team advising both lenders and borrowers on a wide range of real estate backed debt transactions, covering various asset classes and debt sizes. We pride ourselves on our exemplary client service and transactional nous.  

We offer end-to-end transactional services, drawing on expertise in real estate, construction, planning, and corporate law. Our clients include commercial and private banks, alternative lenders, building societies, funds, developers, listed corporates, owner-operators and high-net-worth investors.  

We handle complex transactions across a broad spectrum of properties, including commercial/residential mixed-use, shopping centres and retail parks, hotels, and other leisure facilities to student accommodation, offices, care homes and industrial properties, as well as large-scale transformational developments and to refurbishments works.   

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Work highlights

Lender-side Instructions 

Acting for specialist lender Zorin Finance on a £70 million investment refinancing loan to the Botley Development Company to support the development of student accommodation, build-to-rent properties, a hotel and commercial and community spaces in Oxford 

Acting for Principality Building Society as funding partner for a flagship regeneration scheme to create a £100 million urban village 

Acting for a challenger bank on the financing of residential development, mixed-use and care home projects around the UK in aggregate debt value of £150 million 

Borrower-side instructions 

Acting for Rightacres Property Co. on Cardiff’s Central Square project, a landmark office, retail and residential development and regeneration scheme with complex financing arrangements 

Acting for LifeCare Residences on the development funding for London’s first luxury retirement community in Battersea and various retirement village and nursing home refinancings 

Acting for a leading London property developer on the £135 million financing for the development of a new commercial, retail and residential estate in east London and the £43 million senior and mezzanine financing for the development of a block of high-end residential units in north London 

 

What our clients say

Very pragmatic and will balance legal opinion with a risk based approach/commercial view.

It’s the best all-round law firm I have dealt with outside London.

The team is very responsive and agile.

Very strong team ethic with property, corporate, and construction lawyers working cohesively to provide a single view. Very responsive and flexible in approach and available when needed.

The one thing that separates Acuity Law from the other legal firms that we do business with is their open and proactive approach to contract drafting and the resolution of any issues that arise that require multiparty agreement.

Awards

  • The Real Estate Finance Team is ranked in The Legal 500
  • The Real Estate Team is ranked Band 1 by Chambers and Partners
  • The Real Estate Team is ranked Tier 2 in The Legal 500 

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