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About
Colin has extensive experience advising investors and lenders in relation to domestic and international real estate investment and development finance transactions.
Colin specialises in real estate finance. He acts for investors, developers and lenders including private equity real estate investors, banks and debt funds, hotel owners and operators and high-net-worth individuals on the financing of the acquisition and/or development of a broad range of real estate assets in the UK including in the private rented/build-to-rent, student accommodation, and hotels sectors.
Colin is a member of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council.
Experience
- Advising Supermarket Income REIT plc (SUPR) on a £100m unsecured term and revolving credit facilities agreement provided by ING Bank NV, London Branch.
- Advising the club of lenders on their facilities for the refinancing of acquisition of The Scalpel by Ho Bee Land Limited.
- Advising ARA Europe as investment manager to senior debt funds, on facilities to refinance a portfolio of self-storage properties in Germany and a portfolio of PBSA properties in Spain.
- Advising Supermarket Income REIT on its five facilities, with aggregate commitments of up to £535m in respect of its current portfolio of over 30 supermarkets and shopping centres.
- Advising Ara Venn on the long-term acquisition financing, provided under the UK government backed Private Rented Sector Housing Guarantee Scheme, of the £400m+ acquisition of three BTR developments by German real estate investor, ECE.
- Advising a club of international banks on the £240m facilities made in connection with the refinancing of a portfolio of BTR and student properties in the UK.
- Advising a club of international banks on a £275,500,000 facility to a global real estate development and investment company in connection with the acquisition of a portfolio of office buildings in England and Scotland.
- Advising LW Theatres Group on its term loan and revolving refinancing facilities.