William Heywood
Biography
Overview
William Heywood is an associate in our global Real Estate industry group based in London.
William focuses on real estate finance, acting for lenders and borrowers on asset classes including logistics warehouses, data centres, office buildings, Build to Rent, Private Rented Sector and Purpose Built Student Accommodation in the UK and throughout Europe. He has experience on a range of finance structures, covering acquisition/investment financing, development financing, senior/mezz, capital markets transactions, refinancings, repo financing, loan sales and syndications.
William also has experience in financing transactions covering greenfield and brownfield project finance, and asset finance.
Prior to joining White & Case, William trained at the London and Tokyo offices of a Magic Circle law firm.
Experience
Examples of his recent experience include:
- acting for an American investment bank on the investment financing of a data centre in Helsinki, Finland;
- acting for an American investment bank on the development financing of a BTR building in Leeds, UK;
- acting for an American investment bank on the development financing of a BTR building in London, UK;
- acting for a US private equity debt fund on the investment financing of a portfolio of logistics assets throughout Europe;
- acting for a US private equity debt fund on the investment financing of a shopping centre in Berlin, Germany;
- acting for a US private equity debt fund on the back-leverage of a loan for a BTR building in London, UK;
- acting for an African bank on the development financing of a PBSA building in Leeds, UK;
- acting for an African bank on the development financing of an office building in London, UK;
- acting for an African bank on the development financing of a logistics building in Cambridgeshire, UK;
- acting for the sponsor on the development financing of a data centre in Frankfurt, Germany;
- acting for the sponsor on the restructuring of a service station business operating throughout the UK;
- acting for the sponsor on the refinancing of an office and retail building in London, UK;
- acting for the lenders on an unsecured revolving credit facility for a pan-European real estate investor; and
- acting for the lender on a secured revolving credit facility for a UK-based FinTech.
