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Tom Farrell

Sector expertise

• Real estate finance: Acting for lenders and borrowers on a wide range of real estate finance transactions, both investment and development and on both a syndicated and bilateral basis.

Professional expertise

• Advising a major UK bank on various real estate finance transactions, including a £12,000,000 facility for the development of an aparthotel in central London, a facility for the acquisition of a large city centre shopping centre and various development facilities.

• Acting for a German bank on a number of property finance transactions, including a £50,000,000 facility to acquire a large shopping centre.

• Acting for a real estate fund on several development loan facilities to a borrower to acquire and refurbish various commercial sites across central London.

• Acting for an investment manager in respect of a £20,000,000 facility from a UK clearing bank in connection with a large shopping centre in Birmingham.

• Advising a further education college in respect of its financing from three separate lenders in connection with its merger with another further education establishment.

• Advising NAMA on the provision of funding to a development company in respect of a joint venture to acquire and develop three large scale residential schemes in central London.

Professional history

• Trained and qualified at DLA Piper, Birmingham office: 2005 - 2013
• Senior associate at DLA Piper, London office: 2013 - 2015
• Senior associate at Irwin Mitchell, London office: 2015 - 2018
• Senior associate at Maples Teesdale: 2018 -

Memberships of professional / academic bodies:

• Loan Market Association