Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Chris Brooks is a partner in the real estate finance team at Eversheds Sutherland. He specialises in acting for non-bank lenders and institutional borrowers on financing transactions across Europe, with a particular specialism in development financing. Chris’s recent experience includes:

• acting for Carlyle, Precede Capital and Apollo Capital as lenders on multiple residential development financings, including the £259m financing of Embassy Boulevard in Nine Elms;

• acting for LaSalle Investment Management on a £97m green loan financing for Related Argent and Invesco;

• acting for Dominus on multiple hotel, student housing and development financing transactions;

• acting for various leading international student housing providers on key portfolio financings;

• acting for multiple debt funds on logistics, student housing, hotel and mixed-use development financing transactions in Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland;

• acting for Regal London and LaSalle on the acquisition and £188m development financing of a site in Wembley; and

• acting for the Airport Industrial Property Unit Trust on the refinancing of its portfolio, with Wells Fargo granting a sustainability-linked facility of £350 million.

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