Experience
Orla is a trusted senior lawyer specialising in real estate finance carrying out diligence and advising Lenders on the real estate aspects of financing the development and/or acquisition of commercial property including office, retail, industrial, hospitality, PRS, student and private residential accommodation, wind farm premises.
Orla has an extremely strong technical knowledge of real estate law combined with a wealth of transactional experience and an up-to-date knowledge of all legislative and regulatory changes affecting real estate. She has played a pivotal role in a number of high-profile and complex real estate finance matters, acting for leading lenders and borrowers across a range of sectors. Her deep understanding of both real estate and financing structures has been instrumental in successfully executing transactions that are among the most significant in the market.
Key highlights include advising:
- Pembroke Beach DAC as owner of Glass Bottle site –on all title issues in relation to the refinancing of the entire site, advising on specific site structuring matters and assisting on advising in relation to structuring the estate management provisions of a multi-phase asset.
- Deutsche Bank in relation to the financing projects including the acquisition of the Shelbourne Hotel and the refinancing of Kildare Village.
- Marlet and assisting on the lease of College Square office development to Workday (largest letting in Europe) and subsequent finance of the constructed office development with an international lender.
- SMBC in relation to the Bank’s financing the development of KPMG headquarters at Harcourt Square.
- AIB plc, Rabo Bank and Bank of Ireland on the financing of a portfolio of Energia wind farm projects.
- James Anderson of Deloitte Ireland LLP (as appointed Receiver by an international German Bank) on the sale of 2 Dublin Landings to an international investor.
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