Gordon McMillan
Gordon McMillan
Gordon McMillan
Biography
Gordon is a Partner in the real estate finance team and his principal area of practice is focussed on debt financings secured on real estate in the UK and Europe.
Gordon advises both sponsors and lenders and has advised on the full spectrum of real estate finance transactions from build to rent residential development to senior/mezzanine structured debt transactions to debt portfolio sales and restructurings.
Gordon has spent time on secondment in the structured property debt finance team at Barclays Bank PLC and is recognised as a next generation partner in Legal 500 and a leading individual in Chambers for real estate finance.
Areas of Focus
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Logistics & Industrial
Admissions
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England and Wales
Related Practice Areas
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Build to Rent/Multifamily
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Logistics & Industrial
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Real Estate
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Real Estate Finance
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Real Estate Private Equity, Investments & REITs
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Finance
Experience
- Advising Northwood Investors as sponsor on their c.£300m development facility to redevelop 90 Long Acre, Covent Garden.
- Advising Northwood Investors as sponsor on the creation of a new £1billion build to rent joint venture platform with developer Platform_ and advising on the financing of the 3 seed assets in the platform by AIG.
- Advising KKR & Co as sponsor on the creation of a £1.7 billion build to rent joint venture platform with Moda Living and Apache and the development financing of the joint venture’s first asset in Hove.
- Advising KKR & Co as sponsor on the creation of a £1 billion build to rent joint venture platform focussing on condensed amenity schemes with Moda Living and the development financing of the joint ventures first asset in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
- Advising a US private equity group on its competitive bid for the acquisition of the UK housebuilder Keepmoat Homes.
- Advising KKR & Co as sponsor on its c.£100m acquisition and capital expenditure financing in connection with the acquisition of the Heal’s building on Tottenham Court Road, London.
- Advising Barclays Bank PLC on the transition of its whole book of real estate finance loans from LIBOR rates to SONIA including advising on the terms of the transition and the active transition itself including creating technology driven solutions to active SONIA transition.
- Advising Cheyne Capital Management Funds as arrangers and lender on the acquisition and £103m development financing of Third.i’s Graphite Square in Vauxhall.
- Advising Tristan Capital Management’s debt fund on its c.£45m acquisition facility to an Invesco and George Capital joint venture for the acquisition of the Fort retail park in Birmingham.
- Advising Caridon Holdings LLP, a specialist private rental sector developer, on its joint venture arrangements with a private equity investor and related debt restructuring.
- Advising an alternative lender on its c.£150m development financing made available to an Urbanest subsidiary to develop purpose built student accommodation in Battersea, London.
- Advising JV partners on the bridge financing and subsequent c.€500 million refinancing of the Project Hexagon portfolio of pan-European logistics properties located in eight different European jurisdictions.
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