Linklaters’ global real estate finance team advises financiers, borrowers, real estate investment trusts and funds on a wide range of property investment and development financings and their tax implications.
Complex structured and securitised cross-border transactions are notable areas of the team’s expertise. Linklaters’ lawyers also offer co-ordinated, multi-jurisdictional advice on taking security over real estate.
Recent real estate finance transactions include advising
- Svenska Handelsbanken, Nordea Bank, Skandanaviska Enskilda Banken and Danske Bank on the €1.6 billion debt financing for the €4.4 billion (property value) acquisition of Vasakronan
- Carlyle on the acquisition financing of its investment in HDFC
- Invista European Real Estate SICAF on the €417 million refinancing of existing debt facilities, involving nine jurisdictions
- a Japanese bank on a ¥58 billion acquisition and subsequent securitisation of properties in Japan
- London Bridge Holdings on the introduction of new secured development facilities for the development of the new UK headquarters of PwC on the More London Estate
