Colin is head of the firm’s real estate finance practice. He has extensive experience advising UK and overseas lenders and borrowers in relation to real estate investment and development finance.
Colin acts for senior and mezzanine banks and non-banks, investors and developers, 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.
Advising Oakfield A Limited and Oakfield B Limited on its debt financing in excess of £50m from Deutsche Bank AG, Singapore Branch in relation to the development at Oaklands, Old Oak Common Lane, London.
Advising DATA4 Group on its €620m debt financing from investment banking firms Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and SMBC.
Advising the senior management team and majority shareholders of M7 Real Estate on the financing aspects of their agreement to sell the UK-headquartered real estate investment firm to Oxford Properties, the real estate arm of Canadian pension fund OMERS.
Advising Supermarket Income REIT on the financings of the acquisition of eight additions to its supermarket portfolio.
Advising Constellation Hotels on a £340m long-term facility to refinance The Connaught and The Berkeley hotels.
Advising Twenty14 Holdings on its facility to finance the acquisition of Great Scotland Yard Hotel.
Advising Supermarket Income REIT on a five-year £52.1m loan facility with Bayerische Landesbank, for the purchase of a Morrisons supermarket in Sheffield from property developer Opus North and the refinance of a Sainsbury's in Ashford.
Advising Supermarket Income REIT plc on its £100m revolving credit facility with HSBC to finance the acquisition of properties in Thetford, Bristol and Ashford.
Advising L&G Investments on its £24.5m loan to Citygrove and £25m loan to refinance a student accommodation in York.
Advising a private Middle Eastern investor on its purchase of 1 New Fetter Lane, London for £69m.
Advising AIG on the financing of a premier central London hotel owned by an international hotel group.
Advising Rocket Investments on the senior and mezzanine development facilities for the Atlas Building, City Road, London, comprising residential, office and retail space.
Advising Maybourne Hotels Group on the refinancing of Claridge’s, The Berkeley and The Connaught hotels.
Advising The Kirsh Group on its £200m facility (provided by Aviva Commercial Finance Limited) for the acquisition and development financing of the Tower 42 estate.
Advising The Really Useful Theatres Group on its term loan and revolving refinancing facilities.
Advising a consortium of investors including Arora International on the acquisition and development financing provided to a joint venture to buy and develop a three hectare riverfront hotel site directly linked to The O2 Arena on the Greenwich Peninsula, London.
Advising LaSalle Investment Management (as adviser to LaSalle Residential Finance Fund) on a £51m facility to Melford Capital Partners to finance the acquisition and development of the University Arms hotel in Cambridge.
"Colin Morgan is a brilliant lawyer. He has a deep knowledge of the law and of the market trends which make him extremely capable of tackling complicated matters arising in the context of a transaction and giving precise legal advice to his clients in order to find the best alternatives to such issues."
The UK Legal 500 2023
