William leads our Real Estate Finance team

William's experience

  • Advised a leading Canadian financial institution on the refinance and syndication of Canadian law governed facilities for a cross-border borrower group, providing Scots and English law counsel on complex financing arrangements involving entities in Canada, England, Scotland, and Guernsey.

  • Advised a property investment company on the financing of an acquisition of a student accommodation property in Manchester with a Luxembourg real estate fund guarantor.

  • Advised a leading UK financial institution on the financing of a portfolio of 10 hotels located across Scotland and England, providing guidance on structuring and securing the multi-property transaction.

  • Advised NatWest with respect to the £100m facility provided to Derwent London plc.

  • Advised a syndicate of banks made up of First Abu Dhabi Bank, Mashreqbank and Standard Chartered Bank with respect to the £275m facility provided to a leading London development company.

    • £275m
    • Middle East and United Kingdom
    • Real Estate
  • Advised Brightbay Real Estate Partners with respect to all their financings with various banks totalling over £500m.

  • Advised Empiric Student Property plc with respect to its £125m facility provided by Aareal Bank AG in relation to a portfolio of 17 student accommodation properties across the UK.

  • Advised a syndicate of banks made up of HSBC, NatWest, Barclays and Santander with respect to the £430m facility provided to NewRiver REIT plc.

  • Advised a syndicate of UK clearing banks on a £430m facility provided to NewRiver REIT plc.

  • Advised Mount Anvil on the development facility provided by a UK clearing bank for the redevelopment of Kidderpore College in Hampstead into luxury houses and flats.

Credentials

  • 2004
    Joined Pinsent Masons
  • 1999
    Gouldens (Jones Day after merger), Solicitor
  • 1997
    Qualified - England and Wales
  • 1995
    Slaughter and May, Trainee Solicitor and Solicitor
  • 1994
    College of Law, Guildford - LPC
  • 1993
    Pembroke College, Cambridge - MA
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Out-Law / Insight by William Oliver

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