Laura Uberoi Senior Counsel

Senior Counsel

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Laura advises both lenders and borrowers with a range of domestic and international debt finance transactions, focusing on real estate investment and development finance.

Laura acts for a varied client base including lenders, borrowers, investors, developers, corporates and funds and has spent significant time on secondment to the real estate finance team at a leading global bank. Her work includes advising on real estate investment and development financings, private rented sector/build-to-rent financings, student accommodation financings, hotel financings, ESG principles and sustainability linked loans.

In 2017 she was elected to the Law Society Council, where she also sits on the management board, and in 2018 she was appointed President of Westminster & Holborn Law Society. She has taught at universities across the world, including University of Cambridge and the University of Melbourne and continues to lecture in her spare time. Before joining Macfarlanes, Laura worked with young people in detention facilities across the UK and separately on capital punishment cases for the Texas Defender Service in the USA. She also mentors students and junior solicitors through a variety of schemes, has advised through free legal advice centres for many years and is a judge for the Women in Law Awards.

Laura is a member of the Association of Real Estate Funds, the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council and the Investment Property Forum.

Expertise

Recent work

M7 Real Estate

Advising the senior management team and majority shareholders of M7 Real Estate on the financing aspects of the sale of their UK-headquartered real estate investment firm to Oxford Properties, the real estate arm of Canadian pension fund OMERS.

An international bank

Advising an international bank on a £270,500,000 facility advanced to a global real estate development and investment company in connection with office buildings in various commercial hubs across the UK.

Supermarket Income REIT

Advising Supermarket Income REIT on its five facilities, with commitments in the aggregate of up to £535m in respect of its current portfolio of over 30 supermarkets and shopping centres.

Realstar

Advising Canadian real estate investment company, Realstar, on the financing aspects of the sale of their £750m portfolio of build-to-rent and student accommodation properties to QuadReal Property Group.

Legal & General

Advising long-standing client Legal & General on financing matters relating to its sale of a £47.2m portfolio consisting of seven logistics properties to Urban Logistics REIT plc

UK’s leading luxury holiday parks

Advising one of the UK’s leading luxury holiday parks in respect of a £55,000,000 facility made in connection with its property portfolio.

An international bank

Advising an international bank on a £240,000,000 facility made in connection with the acquisition of a portfolio of student accommodation and buy-to-rent properties across the country.

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