Clive Swillman

Practice Areas

Clive Swillman is a Partner in our Finance team and Head of our Real Estate Finance Group. He advises lenders, sponsors and borrowers on a wide range of transactions both domestic and international including structured real estate financing; development financing; acquisition financing; and restructurings.

In the latest edition of the Chambers legal directory Clive is recommended and is described as "excellent, really superb; reassuring and always there on the phone" and is "very commercially minded and understands how things work in practice". He has been described in the Legal 500 as striking a “good balance between the technical and commercial aspects” and “focusing the client on key commercial points and getting on with the rest themselves”.

Work Highlights

-Acting for the sponsors on their £1.25 billion financing of 22 Bishopsgate, London.

-Acting for a fund on their €300m refinancing for a €500m portfolio of properties across several European jurisdictions.

-Various clearing banks on their development and investment facilities.

-Nuveen on their lending in the UK, Spain and Ireland.

-A student accommodation provider on their debt facilities against a £700m portfolio.

-Institutional lenders on a syndicated £300m development financing of a mix used scheme in London.

Education