Expertise

Collette in a Managing Associate in our Real Estate Finance and Restructuring Team. She has 10 years' experience of acting for, and advising on real estate finance deals involving mainstream lenders, financial institutions, challenger banks and alternative sources of finance.  

Collette also regularly advises lenders and insolvency practitioners in relation to debt restructuring and the m anagement and sale of distressed real estate.

Experience
  • Appointed as the UK Counsel to carry out a corporate and property due diligence exercise on the UK trading companies of a global incorporated organisation. This was in connection with their proposed listing on the Singaporean stock exchange.  
  • Acted in a cross-border refinance involving a property portfolio of 80 properties and with a UK-wide value of £23m. 
  • Acted for a funder in relation to an £18m refinance of a mixed-use development site at Edinburgh's waterfront. 
  • Acted for a developer of student accommodation with a development value in the region of £12m.
  • Acted for the lender in a multi million pound finance deal, whereby funds were being used for the redevelopment of a world class hotel in Fife.