Overview
Laurence Rogers focuses his practice on all aspects of finance, including real estate financing, leveraged financing, acquisition financing and Islamic financing. He is highly experienced in investment and development transactions as well as syndicated and bilateral deals. He has acted for a range of borrowers and lenders, both senior, mezzanine and equity. Laurence handles all real estate finance aspects of origination and refinancing as well as the real estate finance aspects of restructuring. He advises on all major property asset classes and across a number of sectors including healthcare, hotel and leisure, commercial, retail and student accommodation. Laurence handles both UK transactions and cross-border deals in Europe, Africa and the United States and he is particularly active on financing for private equity real estate transactions and acting for alternative lenders.
Results
- Acted for Starz Mortgage Capital Ltd in relation to the refinancing of two student accommodation sites in the United Kingdom
- Acting for the partners investing in Atelier Capital Partners in relation to their joint venture investment with a vehicle managed by M&G Investment Management and associated note financing to finance a real estate commercial and residential bridge lending business
- Acting for Ladder Capital in relation to their New York law-governed investment loan to Randhurst Village
- Acted for Promasidor Holdings Limited in relation to its borrowing from Standard Bank for the financing of assets in South Africa, Ghana and Nigeria
- Advised Yianis Hotels 3 Limited in respect of the financing of Yianis hotel located in Canary Wharf Riverside. The site was formerly the Four Seasons Hotel
- Advised the Soller Group in respect of the financing of its in relation to its acquisition of a large London office building
- Advised Joseph Homes Group, a UK based and well-known residential property developer, on a series of bridge loans and longer-term financings, including emergency bridge loans at short notice. Recent transactions have included JH Parkhouse Limited and JH Veneer Limited
- Hercules JV Limited – assisted this joint venture partner in relation to their pan-European financing in nine jurisdictions on continental Europe of the acquisition of a logistics portfolio and associated financing from a South African lender to assist our client with financing its joint venture investment with Investec Property Fund
- Acted for Sequoia in relation to the real estate aspects of a mezzanine financing deal, in respect of the acquisition of 23 UK-based care homes. This included real estate advice in relation to a sale and leaseback of the portfolio to a long-term income fund, as part of the overall funding for the acquisition. Also subsequently advising this client on the real estate aspects of various other financing transactions
- Advised HIG Capital on their mezzanine financing of the construction of two properties in Germany
- Acted for a consortium of South Korean institutional investors on the financing of their purchase of a long leasehold interest in Tesco’s distribution centre at Avonmouth for GBP 71.4 million from NFU Mutual Insurance Society. Also acted upon the financing of their acquisition of a Jersey Property Unit Trust owning the freehold interest in Accolade Park, Bristol for £62 million for South Korean institutions*
- Advised Oxford Properties (the real estate arm of OMERS pension fund) on their joint venture refinancing of Watermark Place, 1 Angel Lane, London*
- Advised Access Self Storage (and associated group companies) on its GBP 250 million refinancing of long-term debt (originally provided by five different lenders but refinanced by two: HSBC and the Prudential)*
*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott
Recognitions
- Chambers UK 2020, Leading Individual, Real Estate Finance
- Legal 500 UK 2020, Leading Lawyer, Real Estate Finance
- Acritas – Recognised as an Acritas Star 2020
Credentials
Education
London College of Law, LPC, 1996
University of Southampton, Law, 1994
Admissions
England and Wales
