England - London • Real estate
Latham & Watkins
Latham & Watkins‘ practice is led by Jeremy Trinder, who is an expert in commercial mortgage loan transactions, including the servicing and restructuring of mortgage debt. With a balanced equity and debt practice, Quentin Gwyer handles acquisitions, and sale and leaseback transactions across Europe, particularly on portfolio acquisitions and data centres, and acting for sponsors and lenders on the origination of loans. Counsel James Beeson concentrates on cross-border acquisition and development financings.
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Testimonials
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‘They provide outstanding advice on real estate finance topics, and have a strong multinational network of partners they can pull in. They also cover complex transactions such as loan on loans which is very helpful. They're not the cheapest but you get top-quality legal advice and they're also very commercial.’
‘Apart from the top-quality legal advice they are very good in negotiations, often defusing otherwise tense situations.’
Key clients
- Blackstone Real Estate Advisors
- Blackstone Mortgage Trust
- TDR Capital
- Asda
- Cerberus Capital Management
- Ares Management
- KSL
- Brookfield
- Partners Group
- Barclays
Work highlights
- Advised Goldman Sachs on its term loan, bridge, and revolving credit facilities in connection with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Holdings' £6.6 billion take private of WM Morrison Supermarkets Plc.
- Advising Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc on the acquisition and development financing in respect of seed assets comprising two warehouse facilities in England.
- Advised ASDA on the financing aspects of its acquisition of EG Group’s UK and Ireland operations for an enterprise value of c.£2.27bn.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Jeremy Trinder