Lucie Byron
Lucie heads up our Real Estate Finance practice, acting for both lenders and borrowers. Lucie is also responsible for our trainees, overseeing their recruitment, care, training and development.
About Lucie
Lucie's experience allows her to take a commercial approach to the decision-making this work requires. Recent work has included development finance, and finance in specialist sectors including healthcare and short-term bridging facilities.
Lucie advises mainstream lender clients in relation to security over real estate. This includes the diligence work over owner occupied properties, let investment portfolios and pension fund properties. Lucie also works on development finance: working alongside our construction team, we are able to advise borrowers and lenders on suitable appointment and warranty packages.
This experience also means that Lucie can advise borrower clients better on meeting lender’s requirements.
"Lucie Byron is also well-regarded by clients. 'The team takes a commercial view, reacting quickly to turn around documents and move things forward'"
Experience
- Acting for a tertiary education client on a £75,000,000 working capital facility from a mainstream bank and the £multi-billion revision of facilities.
- Advising a lender on a £5,275,000 loan to an emerging player in the gaming sector. The agreement and documentation were turned around within 48 hours.
- Acting for a specialist bank on a £18.5m loan for the development of student accommodation.
- Advised a national lender on the refinance of a portfolio of industrial and retail property worth £7,000,000.
- Acted for a challenger bank providing development finance for conversion of a London townhouse into flats.
- Acted on the £7,000,000 financing of the acquisition of 16 leasehold pharmacy stores from a national brand.
Appointments
Trustee of the Heart of England Community Foundation
