gunnercooke

About gunnercooke

gunnercooke is a high-growth, high-performance professional services firm, with a rapidly growing number of experts spanning legal and other disciplines.

Our purpose is simple: to deliver positive impact for our clients, improve the lives of our people and to leave a better world than we found…

gunnercooke is the fastest growing corporate law firm in the UK and making its mark globally with offices in the US, Germany, CEE, Scotland and England.

We are a team of more than 500 professionals, with the depth of experience which makes us genuine experts in our fields. Together, gunnercooke’s people have strength across just about every corporate discipline and sector.

We provide legal, commercial and strategic advice that delivers real value to the clients we work with, which span from multinational enterprises through to unicorns and not-for-profit organisations.

Our breadth of expertise covers some of the most interesting and important emerging disciplines, from ESG and charity law, to blockchain and competition.

Real Estate Finance

The multi-disciplinary real estate finance team at gunnercooke comprises experienced professionals across the banking, real estate, construction, planning and tax sectors.

We are committed to helping you to achieve the growth objectives for your business.

We undertake transactions involving a broad range of assets from hotels and shopping centres to commercial and large-scale residential developments and buy-to-let property portfolios.

Our team advises financial institutions, senior lenders, mezzanine lenders, bridging financiers, institutional borrowers and developers in all aspects of real estate finance.

We will work with you, aligning ourselves within your business to become an integral part of your team with trusted advisors taking a personal approach and commitment to your deal.

We relish the project management and delivery aspects of each transaction drawing on strong interpersonal and communication skills.

We are proactive, and dedicated to delivering each transaction on time, to your requirements and to the highest of standards.

Your trusted adviser

Juliet Baboolal
Real Estate Finance
Partner
e: juliet.baboolal@gunnercooke.com
t: +44 (0) 7800 774 689

Juliet offers expertise in Real Estate Finance, with over 20 years of experience working with lenders in both the short- and long-term lending space in matters including acquisitions refinance and restructurings, domestically and internationally.

She holds an LLM in construction law and this combined with her expertise in mortgage litigation allows her to anticipate potential challenges and proactively address them.

eg advising on Landlord and tenant issues, requirements under the right to rent Act

eg Immigration requirements, requirements for vacant possession on repossession or appointment of receiver.

Juliet has successfully represented lenders in a wide range of loan transactions, including short and long-term loans, bridging loans, development loans involving residential, commercial, mixed-use, bare land, mezzanine finance, second charges, and transactions involving title insurance.

Key Experience:

• Closing several Multi Million Pound Loan Transactions simultaneously- drafting the loan documents, reporting on the construction and property matters including review of planning, s.106’s
• Resolving legal challenges relating to a £15 million development project
• Advising lender on risk mitigation on a £7 million loan over a site with planning
permission for 190 units