Nnaemeka Ezeh
Nnaemeka Ezeh
Nnaemeka Ezeh
Biography
Nnaemeka is a finance lawyer focusing on structured finance and asset-backed finance transactions. He regularly advises a broad range of clients across the credit and capital spectrum including alternative capital providers, corporates, financial institutions and private equity sponsors on complex, cross-border, structured real estate finance transactions.
Admissions
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England and Wales
Related Capabilities
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Real Estate Finance
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Finance
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Structured Finance
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Financial Institutions
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Real Estate
Experience
- Advising a global investment bank on its repo financing with a leading private equity fund for the financing of a number of commercial real estate loans, each secured on UK commercial real estate.
- Advising a leading provider of alternative asset management in connection with its financing for the acquisition of loan facilities.
- Advising a leading private equity fund in relation to its loan-on-loan finance transaction.
- Advising a private equity sponsor in relation to the financing of its acquisition of a pan-European logistics portfolio.
- Advising a corporate entity in relation to its various financing arrangements including bond issuance, consent solicitation process and hedging arrangements.
- Advising the Ad-Hoc Committee of lenders in relation to the financial restructuring of a hotel group.
- Advising a Central Bank in relation to its facilities and schemes provided to financial institutions.
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Awards
Oct 16, 2025
Oct 16, 2025
Chambers 2026 UK guide ranks BCLP in 36 practice areas and recognises 76 individual lawyers
In the 2026 edition of Chambers UK BCLP received 36 practice area rankings and 76 individual lawyer recognitions. This year, the firm is recognized in six new practice areas and improved to a Band 1 ranking for Commercial Contracts, as well as a Band 2 ranking for Hotels and Leisure.
Insights
Apr 16, 2025
Apr 16, 2025
AIFMD II Leverage Limits and Single Borrower Exposure Restriction
AIFMD II[1]introduces substantial changes to the EU-wide regulatory framework for alternative investment fund managers (“AIFMs”) that was established under AIFMD. The changes cover a wide range of areas but will have a particularly significant impact on funds that originate loans. Among the new rules on loan origination activities are leverage limits and single borrower exposure limits which are particularly relevant for the use of back-leverage by private credit funds operating in the EU. These new rules will also be relevant for AIFMs in the UK managing credit funds located in the EU.
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Dec 01, 2023
Dec 01, 2023
Basel 3.1 implementation in the UK and US
The UK regulators (primarily the Prudential Regulation Authority ("PRA")) are currently reviewing consultation responses received on the proposed implementation of Basel 3.1 in the UK, with the final rules being published between December 2023 and May 2024, and implementation due to start in the UK in July 2025 (pushed back from the original date of 1 January 2025) and finish by 1 January 2030.
On 12 December 2023, the PRA has published the first of two near-final policy statements covering the implementation of the Basel 3.1 standards. This policy statement did not address the real estate lending concerns outlined in this article. The second near-final policy statement is expected in Q2 2024 and is likely to address these.
The US Regulators, i.e. the Federal Reserve, OCC and FDIC, have on 27 July 2023 published their proposals to implement Basel 3.1 (or Basel – Endgame, as it is increasingly referred to in the US) (the “US Proposals”). The consultation period ends on 16 January 2024 with the currently proposed start of implementation being scheduled for July 2025
Some of the proposals have potentially problematic implications for Real Estate Finance (“REF”) and, in turn, the wider UK and US Real Estate market. The US implementation proposal provoked an immediate and robust reaction by the US banks and other key stakeholders in the market.