“....the real estate team driven by Christopher Herford and Richard Leeming are one of the best in the field.”
Legal 500 UK, 2024
About
Richard is a Banking and Finance partner, and for over 25 years, has specialised in real estate finance.
He is highly experienced and well regarded in the UK REF mid-market. The bulk of his work is for lenders, particularly debt funds and other alternative lenders, primarily on senior debt and the derivatives of that.
Richard is experienced in the major asset classes but, more recently, has been busy with resi-developments, PBSA, sheds, self-storage and re-purposing retail and office assets, both in the UK and in mainland Europe. He also advises a number of alternative lenders on their own funding, liquidity and on and off balance sheet arrangements.
He has been Head of Banking and Finance and Head of the Financial Services teams, and currently focuses on the relationships with our network of other independent firms across Europe.
Richard is qualified to practise law in England, Wales and Scotland.
Experience
- Alpha Property Lending: Advising them as lender in relation to a number of development and investment term debt facilities.
- Barratt Developments Plc: Advising in relation to various treasury and debt finance matters.
- DRC Savills: Advising in relation to various REF debt transactions.
- Kinetic Capital: Advising in relation to various PBSA funding transactions.
- Mobico Group PLC: Advising in relation to various treasury and debt finance matters.
Credentials
- Admitted as a solicitor; England & Wales (1992), Scotland (2018).