Jim Garton

Jim advises banks and funders, investors, developers, end users, corporate entities, high-net-worth individuals, insolvency practitioners, and other owners and users of property assets. He has a broad range of experience working across housebuilding, offices, student accommodation, care homes, retirement living, and retail – with a particular interest and experience in the hotel and leisure sector. He also has experience of more obscure property assets such as fisheries and marinas.

Jim has worked on some very high-profile transactions, including the sale of a premiership football club ground and structured finance transactions relating to significant trading entities in the hotel, retail, motoring, and car parking sectors.

Examples of Jim’s work include:

• Advising a debt fund on the structuring of a residential development loan in Liverpool.
• Advising a debt fund on the acquisition finance for a hotel investment in London.
• Advising a challenger bank on the provision of a development loan for the conversion of office premises in Dorking to residential accommodation utilising permitted development rights.
• Advising a challenger bank on the provision of an acquisition and development loan for the conversion of office premises in Maidenhead to residential accommodation utilising permitted development rights.
• Advising a bridging lender on the provision of a bridging loan for the acquisition of a former art college in Rochester intended to be redeveloped for apartments.