Real estate finance

Navigating the credit markets in search of real estate finances can be a complex business. Our real estate finance team has experience acting for lenders, financiers and other key stakeholders when advising on investment and development financing.

Having the right solutions in place is essential to enabling residential developers to successfully build spaces everyone can live and work in. Those spaces play a pivotal role in driving economic and societal growth in towns and cities across the world. Our real estate finance team have experience working with investors, residential developers, banks on various types of financing and transactions.

What do our real estate finance team do?

We offer a complete service to banks, financiers and borrowers, advising on a variety of matters within real estate finance. These include lending to acquire real estate, funding commercial and residential developers to work on projects and refinancing existing funding arrangements.

Our team of real estate finance lawyers are experienced in the full range of finance structures, including:

• syndicated and bilateral loans
• bridging finance
• mezzanine debt
• subordinated capital
• preferred equity.

Our in-depth understanding of commercial real estate issues and the legal context to real estate finance transactions, means we can deliver an exceptionally focused and dedicated service for our clients – whatever their sector.

What’s more, we can also call on experts from other specialist Gateley teams to help with real estate finance transactions – no matter how complex they might be – spanning:

• planning
• construction – both contentious and non-contentious work
• corporate and commercial
• property litigation
• capital allowances and land remediation relief
• compulsory purchase orders and utilities compensation.

Who do our real estate finance team help?

We work with banks, institutional funders, mezzanine funders, debt funds, building societies and borrowers, supporting clients in all business sectors with real estate finance.

It’s important that we understand the issues you may face when dealing with real estate financing. Whether it’s restructuring your portfolio, securing funding for an office or residential development or structuring funds to attract investors, our real estate finance team can advise clients on achieving your real estate objectives.