Services Corporate Property Corporate Finance

We offer Corporate Finance Services focussed on the property industry and those working in it. Property Corporate Finance is provided by corporate and tax lawyers with substantial experience in the property industry and covers:

	Mergers and Acquisitions of property companies
	SPV sales and purchases, including buying and selling land through companies to mitigate SDLT

Funding, including debt, equity and fundraising

Deal structuring advice, including structuring land deals to obtain the best tax position

	Joint ventures and partnerships
	Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs)

	Corporate Governance advice for directors, including company secretarial
	Dispute Resolution

Share buybacks and financial assistance

We help clients to structure their deal, whether a share or land deal, to maximise the tax position at the outset. We have found this is an areas often overlooked but with some careful planning upfront can produce significant tax advantages.

These are some examples of our team’s experience:

	Advising the start up, Unicorn Property Group on the establishment of a Property Investment LLP for the purchase, development and partial onward sale of land at City Quay, Dundee. Providing deal structuring advice, SDLT mitigation planning, LLP and shareholder agreements, funding advice and joint venture advice.
	Advising specialist lender, Lancashire Mortgage Corporation on deal structuring advice, facility agreements and share buy back advice on its substantial loan to a UK developer of brownfield sites.
	Advising Anglo Irish Bank on loans to Housebuilding companies.
	Advising Applecross properties on its senior debt facility with Bank of Scotland.
	Advising joint venture partners on their Share Sale of an English office portfolio.
	Advising the purchaser on the acquisition of 2 Swiss owned property companies (sporting estates).
	Advising the vendor on a share sale of the spv owner of the Gateway Building in St Andrews.
	Deal structuring advice for the Walker Group on its £35m sale of 200 Broomielaw, Glasgow.
	Sale of nursing home properties for Tay Care Group.
	Purchase of shares in offshore companies owning a golf destination hotel.
	Advice on the establishment of an LLP for a housebuilding joint venture in Fife.
	Establishment of an LLP for the acquisition and development of land at Sighthill Industrial Estate, Edinburgh.

Contact - Edinburgh : Mike Kane
Email: m.kane@bellscott.co.uk