Madeleine Clark
Partner, Head of Sustainable Finance and Impact Lending , UK
Madeleine heads up the Real Estate Finance team at international law firm, Osborne Clarke LLP. She specialises in all types of real estate finance work, including development and investment financings on both a syndicated and bilateral basis.
Madeleine acts for all the UK clearing banks as well as a number of specialised real estate debt funds including Aeriance, Laxfield Capital and ICG Longbow. Madeleine also acts for mezzanine lenders, servicers, special servicers, funds, developers and a large number of corporate borrowers including Student Castle, IDI Gazeley and U and I.
She has experience of a variety of borrowing structures such as limited partnerships, offshore entities, limited liability partnerships, joint venture arrangements and property unit trusts.
Madeleine joined Osborne Clarke in September 2011 from BLP, where she worked for five years in their real estate finance team. Madeleine is ranked as a leading individual for real estate finance in Chambers 2017 and a notable practitioner in Legal 500 2017.
The key partner is Madeleine Clark. She has led by example and guided her team and co-teams in other jurisdictions to ensure we have the best seamless solutions for our transactions, which have not been easy. She has really showed her ability to stand by the client and help them move forward."
Work
Royal Bank of Scotland
Advised on four new property accessions under an existing £80m revolving credit facility.
Royal Bank of Scotland
Advised on a £61m facility to refinance existing indebtedness of Canadian & Portland Estates plc in relation to a portfolio of properties.
Royal Bank of Scotland
Advised on its loan facilities to Pyros Environmental Limited, for its acquisition of the waste management business of Veolia at Fawley
a UK clearing bank
Advised a £60m funder and subsequently the receivers of a multisite mixed use residential and commercial property portfolio which included the ongoing management of the sites and subsequent realisation
Insights
Banking and finance
The evolution of mid-market sustainability-linked loans
How are sustainability-linked loans developing and what are some of the key related terms?
06/03/2023
Managing Covid-19
Pushing the envelope: practical tips for executing documents using DocuSign
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15/05/2020
Managing Covid-19
Business interruption loan schemes and Covid-19: a real estate finance perspective
What can the government's emergency loan schemes offer the real estate finance market?
15/05/2020
Managing Covid-19
Electronic signatures: COVID-19 and 'business as (un)usual'
As the impact of Covid-19 prompts businesses to rethink and adapt the ways they work, it is more important than...
27/03/2020
