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Louise Leaver

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Work Department

Banking and Finance

Position

Louise is a specialist housing finance lawyer and is recognised for providing commercial and pragmatic advice to clients. She has been acting for borrowers and lenders for over 20 years, and represents a broad range of clients including corporate borrowers, registered providers, charitable entities, property developers, banks and institutional investors.

She has experience advising on all types of loan agreements, security documentation, intercreditor and security trust arrangements, swap transactions and capital market issues. Louise specialises in supporting and advising clients in the social housing sector to raise funds, whether through short-term revolving credit facilities or longer-term private placements and bond issuance. She also advises on development finance, acquisition finance, off-balance sheet delivery models, joint venture arrangements and restructurings. She used her experience acting for borrowers and lenders to evolve and document new funding structures.

Recent Experience

o Advising a leading housing association on the first unsecured revolving credit facility in the social housing sector.
o Lead lawyer advising a large London housing association on their debut US private placement with a novel mix of secured and unsecured tranches.
o Acting for institutional investors in relation to over £1billion of private placements.
o Supporting a large housing association through a £250m bond issuance, merger and subsequent group restructure and related refinancing.
o Lead lawyer advising a large G15 housing association on structuring their PRS portfolio and accessing funding through the PRS Government Guarantee scheme.
o Advising a G15 housing association on their role in a large regeneration project structured through a contractual joint venture with a nationwide developer.

Career

Trained Clifford Chance; qualified 1998; Associate Clifford Chance 1998-2002; Associate Clifford Chance, Amsterdam 2002-04; Senior Associate Clifford Chance 2005-10; Partner Winckworth Sherwood 2010-2020; Partner Bevan Brittan 2020-to date.

Memberships

Law Society of England and Wales

Education

East Anglia University

Lawyer Rankings

London > Real estate > Social housing: finance

(Hall of Fame)

Louise Leaver – Bevan Brittan LLP

The social housing team at Bevan Brittan LLP handles the full range of housing finance work, from private placements to public bond issues. The group advises a number of social housing associations on loans to joint ventures and on development finance for a variety of schemes, as well as advising on the funding of local authorities investing and lending into housing. In 2022, the team was reappointed to a number of legal panels, such as Network Homes. Practice head Louise Leaver has a strong background assisting both borrowers and lenders with secured and unsecured loans, as well as capital market transactions and innovative funding initiatives. Wendy Wilks leads the social housing team in London and, alongside Jessica Church, further supports the practice through the security taking practice, which acts for funders on security charging projects regarding loan agreements and security reorganisations and releases.

London > Real estate > Social housing: local authorities and registered providers

In 2022, the social housing team at Bevan Brittan LLP won both appointments and reappointments to a number of housing association panels. Practice head Andrew Shaw has 22 years’ experience advising London-based registered providers on housing development and regeneration schemes. He leads the team alongside Louise Leaver and Wendy Wilks, who act for not-for-profit and for-profit registered providers, and they handle sector-significant joint ventures, mergers, and private placements. Neil Brand contributed to the continued expansion of the housing management team and senior associate Fiona McDonald assists with all stages of development acquisitions. The team noted an increasing overlap between housing and other sectors, with registered providers and developers looking to develop land to support health trusts and care companies.

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