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Clive Swillman
Partner

Clive Swillman

Head of Real Estate Finance Group

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”.

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.

Education

  • 1993 - LLB, Manchester University

Insights by Clive

CMS at MIPIM 2026

09 Mar 2026

CMS at MIPIM Cannes

11 Mar 2025

The impact of Pillar Two and the BEPS Actions on finance transactions

10 Aug 2023 3 min read

UK Real Estate Market Post-Lockdown

08 Jul 2021
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