Making business happen

Advised on full due diligence and the preparation and perfection of a comprehensive property, corporate and development security package in connection with a £26.5 million refinance and redevelopment of a landmark building in Ealing, London, to create 112 residential units. The team also advised on intra-group property transfers, rectified historic title and access issues, and provided planning and construction advice to ensure perfected security for the lender.

Advising the developers on a £5million funding round in connection with the development of five luxury townhouses in the heart of London. Our role was to provide advice to the development company to ensure that the documents protected our client’s ability to continue to operate the company and progress the development whilst ensuring the terms were satisfactory to the investor.

Advising an aerospace company and its subsidiaries on an £8 million term loan facility agreement for refinancing, growth capital and working capital purposes. This involved negotiation of key documents, advising the client on their effects.

Advising a Private Bank on an £8.8 million restructuring of a client group and its impact on a loan facility letter and associated security documents. Reviewing and commenting on the restructure paper, reviewing acquisition documents and ancillaries, establishing which consents and clauses of the facility letter were impacted and negotiation of key documents.

Advising the Development Bank of Wales with full due diligence in a £43 million development loan including drafting and perfecting a full suite of property, corporate and development security in a facility to assist with the refinance of a development site in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.

Advising a financial services company and its subsidiaries on the €11,200,500 multi-currency term loan facility agreement for restructuring and general corporate purposes. Involving reviewing and agreeing the LMA light style loan agreement, and reporting on security documents, deed of release and ancillary documents.

Advising a provider of assisted care apartments on a £25,000,000 LMA term loan facility and providing the funder’s solicitor with two City of London Law Society Certificates of Title (CLLS COTs) in respect of two purpose built blocks of assisted care apartments, comprising c.150 apartments in each block.

Acting for Warwick Capital Partners LLP on its debt and equity investment in Eden Living, an exciting new private rented sector business focusing on the acquisition and subsequent letting of newly built houses in South Wales and the South West of England, as part of its European Opportunities Fund III. This included advising on a term loan facility for Eden Living with Lloyds Bank plc which provided funding for initial and subsequent property acquisitions into the portfolio.

Advising Principality Building Society, the sixth-largest building society in the UK and the largest in Wales in its funding of an ambitious, £100+ million residential-led urban regeneration project to transform the site of an old paper mill into a thriving community, in a decade long development scheme that was delivered in partnership with Welsh Government, Tirion Homes, Lovell and Cadwyn Housing Association.

Acting for luxury retirement living operator, LifeCare Residences on complex syndicated senior and mezzanine funding arrangements for the development of its flagship retirement village community in Battersea, London.

Corporate

Expert legal advice and support from start-up funding to major acquisitions.

Commercial and Technology

Contracts, IP and technology agreements that underpin the businesses you are buying or selling.

Real Estate

Property due diligence, acquisition and disposal support for transactions with a real estate element.

Real Estate Finance

Advising funders, developers and borrowers on the financing and refinancing of development and investment projects.

Employment & HR

A full range of employment and HR legal advice including TUPE advice, tribunal defence, HR documentation and general employment advice and guidance.

Health & Social Care

We understand the pressures on health and social care businesses and work closely with our clients to navigate a complex and fast-changing regulatory environment.

Energy

We have extensive experience of the energy sector with our expertise spanning the full lifecycle of a project, from land acquisition and disposal to planning, project finance and funding structures.

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