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Clive Swillman

Partner
Head of Real Estate Finance Group

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English

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”.

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Relevant experience

  • 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.
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Education

  • 1993 - LLB, Manchester University
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10/08/2023
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