Notable representations:Advised Partners Group on the financing of its acquisition of a 140,000sqm portfolio of 19 Finnish logistics assets from Mandatum Asset Management. Advised TPG Real Estate on the c.€300m senior and mezzanine financing of its Physicus (German and Dutch) life sciences platform, the senior portion of which was securitised in the Vita Scientia 2022-1 DAC offering.A sovereign wealth fund and its co-investor on the refinancing of their PBSA portfolio across the UK.A top-tier sponsor on its initial refinancing of pan-European portfolio of logistics assets and then the subsequent acquisition financing of various pan-European logistics assets.A US-based sponsor on the refinancing of its Spanish residential portfolio.A US-based sponsor and its co-investor on the financing of their BTR platform across the UK.

I was an associate in the Finance practice of Paul Hastings and was based in the firm's London office.Notable representations:Represented Starwood Capital Group as borrower on refinancing of its £200m industrial properties portfolio located across the UK.Represented Starwood Capital Group as borrower on its circa. €200m acquisition financing of the Las Mercedes business park in Madrid, Spain.Represented Starwood Capital Group on its €320m senior and mezzanine refinancing of its Spanish portfolio.Advised Starwood Capital Group on the financing aspects of its over US$1bn disposal of a portfolio of 14 UK hotels that form part of The Principal Hotel Company to Foncière des Régions.Represented a major Chinese alternative asset management firm on a leverage finance transaction as borrower on a US$450m senior syndicated facility and US$400m junior syndicated facility.Represented Aareal Bank AG as lender on a £149m financing of Valesco and AIP’s purchase of Cannon Bridge House, London.Represented Investec Bank plc as lender, agent and arranger and Bank HaPoalim as lender on a £72m development financing to The LabTech Group to fund the mixed-use scheme located on Camley Street, King’s Cross, London.Represented Starwood European Finance Partners Limited as arranger and lender to a €110m acquisition and redevelopment of Ikos Andalusia, a 400-key, luxury seafront resort in Andalusia’s coastal area of Estepona, Spain with HFF Real Estate Limited.

Associate - Banking and FinanceI was an associate in the Finance practice of Hogan Lovells and was based in the firm's Dubai office. I advised local and international financial institutions, sponsors and corporate borrowers undertaking a broad range of conventional and Islamic finance transactions in the Middle East, Africa, Far East, Europe and the U.S.Notable representations:- Represented Dubai Islamic Bank as lender on a AED1.5bn Shariah compliant facility to a Dubai government related entity.- Represented ICD-Brookfield in relation to a AED1.5bn mixed conventional and Shariah compliant financing relating to the construction of a tier 1 business and leisure complex in the heart of the Dubai International Financial Centre.- Represented an Emirati bank as lender on a $200m murabaha sovereign financing.- Represented the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector as arranger on sukuk issuances for the governments of Ivory Coast (Phase II) and the Togolese Republic.- Represented Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank as lender on a AED216m hybrid bond/facility Islamic financing.

Associate in banking and finance.

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