Colin Morgan Partner

Partner
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Colin leads the firm’s real estate finance practice. He 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.

Expertise

Recent work

A club of lenders

Advising the club of lenders on their facilities for the refinancing of acquisition of The Scalpel by Ho Bee Land Limited.

Constellation Hotels

Advising Constellation Hotels on a £340m long-term facility to refinance The Connaught and The Berkeley hotels.

ARA Europe

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.

Supermarket Income REIT

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.

ARA Venn

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.

A club of international banks

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.

A club of international banks

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.

LW Theatres Group

Advising LW Theatres Group on its term loan and revolving refinancing facilities.

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"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

"Colin Morgan possesses a deep market knowledge, and we consider him an excellent lawyer and business associate. He works hard to deliver first-class outcomes for his clients."

Chambers UK 2022

"Colin Morgan is a smart, commercially focused, responsive lawyer. Extremely experienced and knowledgeable about the family office sector. Very pleasant to deal with."

The UK Legal 500 2022

"Colin Morgan is unflappable and always a pleasure to work with."

The UK Legal 500 2021

"Colin Morgan has been great to deal with, working well with the various teams."

The UK Legal 500 2021

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