Practices

Corporate Lending and Real Estate Finance

Our expertise:

Acting through our Dublin, London and New York offices, our Corporate Lending Group specialises in structuring, documenting and advising on the more complex and high profile transactions in the corporate lending and real estate finance sectors. We bring extensive experience of advising on market leading transactions and offer our clients an unparalleled insight and understanding of the lending environment and bespoke lending transactions. We bring this experience and market knowledge to every transaction ensuring every client receives efficient, collaborative and reliable deal execution.

Key areas:

While our team offers a broad range of finance related capabilities, we:

• Occupy a particular niche in the area of multi-layered financings
• Advise alternative finance providers entering the Irish market on Ireland’s regulatory regime and the optimal structuring of their lending products
• Have extensive experience of working on debt restructuring and related workout arrangements, in conjunction with our Restructuring and Insolvency Group
• Advise lenders, investment funds and large developers in relation to their construction and real estate finance requirements
• Regularly advise investment funds and large financial institutions on all forms of fund finance facilities including redemption facilities and project specific facilities, with a particular emphasis on financing transactions involving qualifying investor alternative investment funds (QIAIFs)
• Specialise in sector specific products such as student accommodation, PRS and nursing homes in addition to residential and office developments
• Work closely with our loan portfolios team to advise vendors and purchasers of loan portfolios and also advise the institutions financing those acquisitions

Key highlights include advising:

• A large financial institution on a novel transaction which involved developing a loan product whereby loans are to be made by an SME Lender to dairy farmers supplying a large Irish co-op with the payment profile for the loans matching key milk producing months
• A number of investment banks on the €2.3 billion financing of Activision Blizzard’s acquisition King Digital
• A large international financial institution in relation to financing the acquisition of two large, high profile central Dublin sites and their subsequent redevelopment, in each case through a QIAIF structure
• A financial institution in connection with its financing of the acquisition of a portfolio of Irish Hotels through a combination of QIAIF and limited partnership structures
• A US based private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of a high profile multinational computer technology company
• Various alternative lenders in relation to their proposed lending structures, their back funding structures and their onlending platforms
• Various financial institutions, funds and alternative lenders in relation to the financing of various large residential, student accommodation, PRS and other related development schemes