Alan Samson is an English and New York qualified partner based in the firm’s London office. He co-chairs the firm’s real estate group and heads the European real estate private equity team. He joined the firm in May 2000 as the firm’s first English law partner. Alan has more than 30 years’ experience in all aspects of commercial real estate and real estate finance, including corporate and investment property acquisitions and disposals, acquisition financing and joint ventures. His practice has recently been heavily focused on the acquisition of real estate loan portfolios (whole loans, senior and/or junior notes and structured pieces) from financial institutions, distressed/vulture fund formation, recapitalisations, mezzanine loan origination and debt restructurings and workouts. His client base is largely made up of U.S. and European financial investors (primarily opportunity and private equity funds).
England - London • Real estate
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher‘s London office regularly acts for US, and other foreign-based investors and lenders, in high-end transactional work across Europe. Team lead Alan Samson has more than 25 years’ experience in all aspects of real estate finance, and in particular, acquisition of real estate loan portfolios. Robert Carr is noted for advising private equity and other top tier sponsors on their borrowing transactions. Ben Myers and Claibourne Harrison are also recommended.
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Key clients
- Accuride Corporation
- Apollo Global Management
- Ares Management
- Blackstone
- Brookfield
- Cale Street Partners
- Centerbridge
- Davidson Kempner Capital Management
- Deutsche Bank AG
- Fremont Realty Capital, LP
Work highlights
- Advised Brookfield in relation to its approximately £1.2 billion senior and mezzanine financing of 100 Bishopsgate in London.
- Advised Oaktree Capital Management’s Real Estate Opportunities Fund in connection with the financing relating to the recapitalisation of Auriens senior living developments in both Chelsea and St Johns Wood, London.
- Advised Oaktree as lead consortium member in connection with the voluntary public takeover offer for Deutsche EuroShop AG, a major shopping centre investor that owns a portfolio of 21 high quality centres in prime locations across Germany and selected cities in Central and Eastern Europe, and related financing.
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Rob Carr is an English law partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Real Estate and Global Finance Practice Groups. Rob advises lenders and borrowers across the market on real estate backed financing transactions in the UK and continental Europe acting for investment banks, private equity funds and other alternative lenders and has particular expertise in representing private equity and other top tier sponsors on their borrowing transactions. He has advised on a wide variety of real estate financings spanning the last decade including loan originations, debt trades and restructurings.
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Alan Samson