Colin Morgan > Macfarlanes LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

The Macfarlanes LLP real estate finance team is a multifaceted team which draws on the firm’s capabilities in the areas of real estate, construction, corporate, and funds teams to provide lenders, alternative lenders, and borrowers with a large range of financing services. Practice head Colin Morgan is a seasoned real estate finance lawyer, praised for his ‘capacity to understand immediately the breadth, ramifications and importance of issues and the consequences of given directions’. Morgan recently acted for a club of lenders led on a high value loan facility to refinance a luxury hotel in London. Other key figures include the ‘commercially minded and solution-focused’ Laura Bretherton, who specialises in financing development projects, and restructuring and insolvency head Jat Bains, a specialist in debt finance work.

Working with major hotel groups, investors and lenders, the cross-practice team at Macfarlanes LLP draws on its corporate, finance, real estate, and commercial law offerings to advise its clients on acquisitions, developments, franchising agreements, and debt and equity financing matters as well as tax. Howard Corney advises on M&A to institutions and HNWIs, while Justin Hope advises on domestic and cross-border M&A. Will Hedges advises on commercial aspects, particularly commercial contracts, operational real estate, and intellectual property. Colin Morgan and Nick Barnes specialise in commercial and corporate real estate; Morgan, in particular, is noted for his real estate finance acumen.