Sam Burke
Sam Burke
Sam Burke
Biography
Sam specializes in all aspects of real estate finance. He focusses on acting for lenders and borrowers in relation to acquisition financings, refinancings and development financings and has worked on a variety of deals from bilateral facilities to multi-jurisdictional syndicated facilities. Sam has also spent 6 months on secondment at both Argent and Morgan Stanley within their respective legal teams.
Admissions
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England and Wales
Related Practice Areas
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Financial Institutions
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Real Estate
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Real Estate Finance
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Finance
Experience
- Advising King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership/Argent on the c.£2 billion development and investment financings secured against assets at the King’s Cross Estate including a £400 million development facility from HSBC, thought to be one of the largest real estate development facilities to have adopted the Green Loan Principles.
- Advising LaSalle Investment Management on the £148 million green financing of the acquisition and development of Urbanest’s student accommodation-led scheme in Battersea which will also deliver offices, creative workspaces and a public house.
- Advising Precis Advisory in connection with two sites in London’s Knowledge Quarter. Belgrove House is proposed as a new specialised office and laboratory building for the life-sciences sector. It will be a Discovery Hub and UK HQ/centre of excellence for MSD UK (the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company).
- Advising Greystar on the construction financing for the development of a build to rent asset in Hayes, London. The financing was arranged by AllianceBernstein.
- Advising Lloyds Bank PLC in connection with the £170 million syndicated senior and mezzanine refinancing of the acquisition and development of a portfolio of science parks located across the UK.
- Advising Tristan Capital Partners' TIPS One Debt Fund in respect of an £80m loan to refinance 204 residential apartments in the Manhattan Loft Gardens tower in the Olympic Park in Stratford.
- Advising Bizspace on the £210 million senior and mezzanine refinancing of a portfolio of over 100 flexible working sites across the UK.
- Advising Henderson Park to secure a £98.4 million loan to finance its acquisition and refurbishment of the Silverburn Shopping Centre in Glasgow.
- Advising M&G Investment Management in relation to the £134 million facility to finance and refinance the acquisition of a portfolio of office properties across London, Birmingham and Reading.
- Advising KKR & Co as sponsor on the development financing of an asset in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
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