Benedict West
Benedict West
Benedict West
Biography
Benedict is experienced in all aspects of real estate finance in the UK and across Europe.
Benedict acts for both sponsors and lenders, with his lending clients including investment banks, clearing banks, debt funds and other alternative lenders and sponsor clients including private equity borrowers, institutional investors and developers. Benedict’s experience includes acquisition financings, development financings and refinancings, working across all real estate asset classes including offices, residential (both build-to-rent and build-to-sell), student accommodation, hotels, later living, self-storage, logistics and life sciences.
In the ESG space, Benedict has a focus on green finance and has experience of advising lenders and sponsors, including some of the most significant green development loans in the UK.
Benedict has spent time on secondment in the real estate finance team at HSBC Investment Bank (Global Banking and Markets).
Benedict is recognised by Legal 500 UK 2025 as a Next Generation Partner for Real Estate: Property Finance.
THE SUSTAINABILITY IMPERATIVE
Admissions
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England and Wales
Related Capabilities
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Real Estate Finance
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Sustainable Real Estate
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Financial Institutions
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Real Estate
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Finance
Experience
- Advising Brookfield Asset Management funds on UK and European acquisition financings, including:
- Advising Brookfield Asset Management’s first European core-plus real estate fund (BPREP-E) on financing the acquisition of eight logistics assets located in France and the Netherlands. The facilities have a total value of c.€125 million.
- Advising Brookfield Asset Management’s first European core-plus real estate fund (BPREP-E) on the acquisition and development financing of four logistics assets located in Germany, the Netherlands and Spain. The facilities have a total value of c.€120 million.
- Advising Brookfield Asset Management’s fourth flagship opportunity fund (BSREP IV) on financing the acquisition of a logistics asset located in the United Kingdom. The facility has a value of £54 million.
- Advising Brookfield Asset Management’s first European secondaries fund (BRES) on financing the acquisition of four logistics assets located in the United Kingdom. The facilities have a total value of c.£106 million.
- Advising Argent on behalf of King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership to secure over £2 billion of financing used to fund the multi-award winning King’s Cross mixed-used urban regeneration scheme, including a £400 million green loan from Wells Fargo, HSBC and Helaba to support the development of two new environmentally-conscious office buildings.
- Advising Qatari Diar on a £400 million green loan for the development of their award winning Chelsea Barracks residential development provided by a consortium of five lenders: Credit Suisse AG, Standard Chartered Bank, Allied Irish Bank (UK) plc, Qatar National Bank and National Bank of Kuwait.
- Advising Lodha Developers UK Limited, part of the Lodha Group (India’s largest residential real estate developer), on development and inventory financings secured on its super prime residential schemes at No.1 Grosvenor Square, London and Lincoln Square, London.
- Advising Allianz Real Estate on providing a £140 million facility to finance the development of 33 Charterhouse Street, a London office-led scheme owned by a 50-50 joint venture of Helical and Ashby Capital.
- Advising NatWest and an institutional lender on providing a £155 million facility for the redevelopment of 100 New Bridge Street, London: a carbon-friendly office redevelopment owned by a joint venture between developer Helical plc and a vehicle led by Orion Capital Management LLP.
- Advising an institutional lender on its c.£.135 million development financing of a life sciences site in the UK’s ‘Golden Triangle’, known as Trinity House, Oxford. The life sciences scheme is being developed by Breakthrough Properties, a global developer of life sciences real estate, which is backed by a joint venture between Tishman Speyer, the global real estate developer, and Bellco Capital, a bio technology investment firm.
- Advising HSBC Investment Bank on its financing of a purpose built student accommodation building in Birmingham.
- Advising LaSalle Investment Management on providing senior development finance for the Fusion design-led 437 bed luxury student accommodation in Nottingham.
- Advising Tristan Capital Management’s debt fund on its c.£45m acquisition facility to an Invesco and George Capital joint venture for the acquisition of the Fort retail park in Birmingham.
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