Our Banking team advises on a wide range of property finance transactions including investment, acquisition and development finance. Our experience ranges from advising on single acquisitions to setting up property funds investing in a range of properties worldwide. Our clients include banks, investors and developers.

Our Banking team is supported by our Real Estate team and Construction and Development group and have particular expertise in the health and care, hotels, education, social housing, leisure, retail and hospitality sectors.

examples of our property finance experience

Our property finance experience includes advising on:

  • £15.6 million loan facility for a company running a hotel. The transaction involved a complex international structure. A borrowing investment company incorporated in Panama owns the property and leases it to an English operating company
  • £4.4 million loan facility for a pottery company to acquire a property
  • £22.7 million loan facility for a group of eight companies running seven marinas
  • £44 million loan facility for a company running a hotel
  • two hotel loan facilities totalling £38.8 million. The transactions involved complex international structures. Borrowing investment companies incorporated in Guernsey own the properties and lease them to English operating companies.

View a more complete list of our recent deals experience.

For further information, please contact:

Kath Shimmin, head of Blake Lapthorn solicitors' Banking team in Southampton, on 023 8085 7081 or by email at kath.shimmin@bllaw.co.uk.

Claire Wheatley, partner in the Banking team in London, on 020 7814 6930 or by email at claire.wheatley@bllaw.co.uk.