Cripps Harries Hall

What we do

Our team advises on funding of commercial property, including conventional facilities secured on property as well as corporate based finance.  We understand the wide variety of security documents that banks may require, such as inter-group charges, charges over rent accounts and deeds of priority between lenders. The team acts for both lenders and borrowers, providing advice on loan documentation and due diligence.    

We have experience in helping clients secure finance for construction work including step in rights for the bank.  Our lawyers are used to working in multidisciplinary teams alongside banks, private equity houses, venture capitalists and other professional advisers.  The team also has general finance experience including public and private fundraising of both equity and debt.

Our clients

Our clients include medium and large national and international companies, banks and private equity houses as well as a wide spectrum of property investment clients from local organisations to some of the largest property investment companies and institutions in the country. 

Why Cripps Harries Hall?

Our multidisciplinary team understand property and corporate finance.  We work collaboratively with other advisers and provide a pragmatic, realistic and responsive approach.  We know how difficult finding funding can be and it is our job to ensure that once funding is secured we make sure that the transaction concludes as swiftly as possible.

Next steps

For further information please contact Mike Scott, Stephen Hedley or Nigel Stanford.

• Advising educational institutions on finance arrangements including finance for the provision of new student accommodation through complex rental arrangements and securing bank loans for over £20 million to fund refurbishment and new building works
• Acting for a substantial property company in the establishment of a joint venture with a major housebuilder to acquire circa 300 homes - the purchase of the properties was financed by a loan from Santander of circa £25 million and an equity investment by the client company
• Acting for Santander Bank in the financing of a commercial real estate investment by a limited partnership
• Acting for Clydesdale Bank plc in relation to the financing of a £2 million residential development in London
• Acting for a private bank in relation to its £12 million loan to an AIM listed plc
• Acting for a number of pension funds in relation to their investments in real estate vehicles including specific private equity funds targeting the real estate market
• Acting for a major developer on a series of joint ventures relating to the acquisition of land for residential development - these have been financed by a mixture of shareholder loan facilities and bank finance, both secured and unsecured