Thomas Dunn

• Representing clients on whole loan, senior, and mezzanine loan originations involving mixed asset classes including hotels, logistics, industrial supermarkets, business parks, offices, and entertainment.
• Representing third-party loan servicers, including loan agents, security trustees, servicers and special servicers in relation to their appointments.
• Representing asset managers in negotiating credit facilities and intercreditor arrangements across Europe.
• Representing clients in restructuring debt and capital market positions throughout the UK and continental Europe.
• Representing clients on loan defaults and restructuring of loan positions, including standstill and enforcement, throughout the UK and continental Europe.
• Representing clients in bond issuances and new bond refinances.

Tom Dunn focuses on domestic and international real estate finance and structured finance transactions. Tom has represented investment banks, commercial banks, debt and equity funds, noteholder groups, bond issuers and other market participants on a variety of loan transactions, including private credit, loan syndications, senior/mezzanine financings, warehouse arrangements, and securitizations. Tom’s experience extends to advising on the workout and restructuring of loans with non-performing underlying assets (including solvent reorganizations, loan defaults, and standstill arrangements).

Tom has additional experience acting for both sellers and purchasers of whole loans, subordinate debt, and mezzanine loans, as well as acting for third-party loan servicers in their appointments. He has also acted on Shariah-compliant financings, including murabaha and ijara structures.

Tom combines his experience with “real world” experience gained as part of the investment team of the European Real Estate Debt Fund at a leading institutional asset manager, where he focused on private credit whole and mezzanine loan originations across the UK, Western Europe, and the Nordics.

Tom is recognized as a “Key Lawyer” in The Legal 500.

Bar Admissions

• Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

Education

• University of Law (L.P.C., 2016)
• University of Law (M.Sc., 2016)
• University of Law (GDL, 2015)
• University of Nottingham (B.A. Hons, 2014)