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 the lender on the development financing of a PBSA building in Leeds, UK;
- acting for the lender on the investment financing of a data centre in Helsinki, Finland;
- acting for the lender on the development financing of a BTR building in Leeds, UK;
- acting for the sponsor on the investment financing of a split retail and office building in Paris, France*;
- acting for the lender on the investment financing of a portfolio of logistics warehouses throughout the UK*; and
- acting for the finance parties on a funds finance facility for a portfolio of pan-European real estate assets*.
*Experience prior to joining White & Case
