Real estate finance
Property investment
Acting for lenders and borrowers on a wide variety of real estate investment matters across Scotland and England.
Student accommodation
Acted for a mezzanine lender in respect of development facilities provided in connection with student accommodation in Aberdeen.
Hotels
Acted for a Canadian borrower in connection with facilities used to acquire a well-known hotel in St. Andrews.
Finance
Investment trusts
Advised The Royal Bank of Scotland in connection with a mixture of single and multi-currency revolving credit and terms loan facilities provided to numerous FTSE listed investment trusts.
Loan portfolio sales
Advised Lloyds Bank plc in respect of various loan portfolio sales to, among others, Cerberus Capital Management and Kennedy Wilson.
Energy
Acted for Tailwind Energy in respect of facilities provided by Mercuria used to acquire various oil and gas assets in the North Sea.
Renewables
Provided cross border support in respect of the Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm (the largest offshore windfarm in Scotland).
Leveraged and acquisition finance
Leveraged finance
Acted for Kbro Inc (a Canadian entity) in respect of facilities provided by the Toronto Dominion Bank used to fund the acquisition of the Fishers laundry group.
General corporate lending
Acting for SpaceandPeople plc in connection with general corporate lending facilities provided by Santander UK plc.
Asset backed lending
Acted for Corrboard UK, a syndicate involved in the production of cardboard, in relation to asset-backed and term loan facilities provided by Wells Fargo.