About
Leigh works on real estate investment and development financing, debt refinancing and restructuring, and corporate acquisition financing matters. She has experience acting for institutional lenders, private banks, family offices, developers, and corporates. Leigh's focus is on real estate finance in terms of both development and investment financing across a range of asset classes including: residential investment, commercial real estate, student accommodation, and infrastructure.
Leigh is admitted to practise in England and Wales.
Experience
- Acting for a leading sustainable investment management company in relation to its financing of SPVs in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Mauritius for the acquisition and development of solar energy projects in emerging markets.
- Acting for leading Hong Kong property developer ChinaChem on the £80m refinancing of one of its UK commercial properties, One New Street Square.
- Acting for a HNW family office on its investment financings of a portfolio of strategically located residential properties in London.
- Acting for Gulf Islamic Finance Investments on the £85m development financing of the Chelsea Police Station into 36 Marriott apartments.
- Acting for a family owned and operated care home provider on the on-going structuring of its portfolio and acquisition of further properties.
- Acting for one of the UK's largest privately owned investment companies on the investment financing of two open storage sites.
- Acting for a Danish commercial real estate investment company on its purchase and subsequent refinancing of a flagship UK commercial property worth £11.2m.
- Acting for a care home provider on its acquisition two sites for the development of two 70+ bed care homes to add to its existing portfolio of over 50 homes across the UK.