Firm foundations Real estate finance lawyers who understand the market
Eversheds Sutherland’s dynamic and client-focused real estate finance practice provides an all-Ireland service from its offices in Dublin and Belfast. Our team advises on significant financing transactions in the real estate sector and we aim to set the standard when it comes to consistent quality and innovative thinking.
Our real estate finance team has acted and continues to act for major domestic and international funders, specialist real estate lenders, real estate funds, REITS and developer clients in connection with some of the largest real estate financing deals undertaken in the Irish market over recent years. The team also has significant experience in real estate securitisations and loan sales as well as structuring acquisitions and developments involving Qualifying Investor Alternative Investment Funds (QIAIFs), REITs, ICAVs and limited partnerships, real estate mergers and acquisitions, joint venture structuring and complex real estate acquisitions.
Our credentials Areas we cover include: ––Development finance ––Regulated fund ––Financial services structures/asset regulatory management ––Project and ––Restructuring
We have the largest full service We are on the panel of more infrastructure finance ––Tax structuring and tax real estate team of any global than 25 major international planning advice law firm consistently ranked in banks and several hundred ––Real estate finance directories worldwide global corporations ––Real estate securitisation
Examples of clients for whom we have recently acted: ––ACC Bank ––Hibernia REIT
Our team consists of 2,800 We act for over 62 of the FTSE ––Activate Capital ––HSBC Bank lawyers including c.700 100, 58 of the Fortune 100 and partners across the globe 92 of the Fortune 200 ––Allied Irish Banks (AIB) ––KBC Bank ––Apollo ––Lloyds Banking Group ––Avestus Capital ––National Asset Partners Management Agency ––Bank of Ireland ––Origin Capital ––Barclays ––RELM We have deep experience We advised our clients on in many industry sectors landmark deals including ––Cairn Homes ––Ronan Group including tech, office, retail, 4&5 Grand Canal Plaza, residential development the Microsoft campus and ––Cardinal Capital Real Estate and financial services 1&2 Docklands Central ––Close Brothers ––Starwood Capital ––Deutsche Bank ––Ulster Bank ––GreenOak Real Estate ––Venn Capital Partners ––Finance Ireland Group
Our real estate practice We won Property, Probate and is ranked Band 1 in Chambers Planning Team of the Year at and Legal 500 the Irish Law Awards 2017 Recent experience includes advising: Contacts: ––HSBC Bank in relation to its €100 million loan facilities with Dame Plaza Property Trading DAC for the redevelopment of the former Joseph Stanley headquarters of the Central Bank of Ireland Partner, Real Estate +353 1 6644 293 ––A consortium of banks (AIB, Barclays and HSBC Bank) on their €250 josephstanley million facility to Glenveagh Properties plc, an Irish listed homebuilder @eversheds-sutherland.ie ––AIB on its €74 million development loan facility to EFIV Irish Property ICAV, a regulated fund established by BlackRock Funds, relating to the Steve Rodgers development of a 966 bed student accommodation project at Point Partner, Banking and Financial Services Village in Dublin’s docklands +353 1 6644 350 ––Cairn Homes on its acquisition of Montrose site, Donnybrook, Dublin steverodgers from RTE for €107.5 million @eversheds-sutherland.ie ––Finance Ireland Group on its securitisation of commercial mortgage loans Sean Greene ––Hibernia REIT on the acquisition of Blocks 1, 2 and 5 Clanwilliam Place, Partner, Real Estate Dublin 2 from L+R for €50 million, and on the acquisition of 75 Sir John +353 1 6644 278 Rogerson’s Quay for €28 million and the lease of that building to seangreene IWG (Regus) @eversheds-sutherland.ie ––Fibonacci Property ICAV/Ronan Group Real Estate in a restructuring and refinancing of its facilities in connection with a significant Piaras Power commercial development located in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, and Partner, Banking and a complex pre-let deal exchanged with Facebook Financial Services ––HSBC Bank in relation to its €90 million loan facilities to EirGrid plc +353 1 6644 216 piaraspower ––NAMA on residential development finance at Citywest, Dublin @eversheds-sutherland.ie ––Avestus Capital Partners in connection with the acquisition and development of a number of residential developments Marie O’Riordan Partner, Real Estate ––AIB Corporate Banking in connection with the provision of long term portfolio funding advanced to Túath Housing Association, an approved +353 1 6644 914 housing body, for the acquisition of up to 190 homes throughout Ireland marieoriordan @eversheds-sutherland.ie ––Spencer Place Development Limited in connection with the acquisition and development of a significant commercial development Darragh Blake located at Spencer Place, Dublin 1, as well as a corporate restructuring Partner, Banking and ––A major development company in connection with the €600 million Financial Services refinancing of commercial real estate facilities +353 1 6644 213 darraghblake ––Dublin Port Company in relation to a €100 million facility advanced @eversheds-sutherland.ie by the European Investment Bank to fund the development of the Alexandra Basin ––Leeds Building Society on its sale of its residential mortgage portfolio Gareth Planck Partner, Real Estate, Belfast in Ireland +44 28 95680556 ––JR AMC on the acquisition of two Dublin Landings from Ballymore garethplanck Oxley and its related financing @eversheds-sutherland.ie
Niamh Caffrey Consultant +353 1 6644 208 niamhcaffrey @eversheds-sutherland.ie
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