Panoramic: Automotive and Mobility 2025
Isabel Tinsley
Counsel Corporate & Finance
Languages
English, French, German, Italian
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Legal500 2024Isabel is extremely strong for a non-partner
Isabel manages a hybrid loans and securitisation practice, with a particular focus on real estate finance. She advises on originations of loans and notes backed by commercial and residential properties throughout Europe and across all property asset classes. Isabel is also highly experienced in advising on loan-on-loan transactions, property loan portfolio acquisitions, both performing and non-performing, and enforcements and restructurings of loans and CMBS.
Isabel has spent time on secondment to the commercial real estate desk of a global investment bank and twice to the alternative finance team of a US investment manager. She has been practising for 15 years.
Isabel is knowledgeable in the area of ESG, and has managed several high profile “green” bond issuances. She has spoken with publications such as The Banker and Structured Credit Investor, and given talks at Oxford University and the Barcelona Global ABS conference, on the topic of green finance.
Isabel is on the steering committee for the Back-Leverage Forum of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council, a real estate finance industry body, promoting dialogue and coherence in the back-leverage financing market. She acted as co-chair of Hogan Lovells’ Social Mobility Network for two years.
Legal500 2024Isabel is extremely strong for a non-partner
Representative experience
Advised Barclays Bank Ireland Plc and Deutsche Bank AG as managers in respect of the €640m securitisation of four energy-efficient German data centres managed by Vantage Data Centers.
Advised a fund in respect of a €250m securitisation of a portfolio of French residential equity release mortgages (prêts viagers hypothécaires) for the over 60’s.
Advised a US investment manager and a hospitality expert on a £11.6m mezzanine financing of a 106 key aparthotel in central London.
Advised commercial real estate debt funds advised by a U.S. investment manager on their lending of €42.8m to finance the ground up development of two German logistics properties.
Advised the lender of a new €180m financing platform to finance the acquisition, renovation and letting by a French start-up of residential properties as co-living spaces across France and Belgium.
Advised a fund on its provision of a £175m financing to a major UK bridge mortgage lender, with back-leverage provided by a bank by way of a bespoke agreement amongst noteholders.
Advised a fund in respect of its hotel franchise arrangements relating to its £400m strategic investments into Portugal.
Advised a fund in relation to its borrowing of a £223m loan on loan financing secured by UK residential buy-to-let properties.
Advised a renewable energy company on the $50m financing of the development of hydroelectric power facilities in Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi.
Advised a liquidity facility provider in respect of its position on a defaulted CMBS undergoing a note and loan-level restructuring.
Advised a participant in the €249m Thunder Logistics 2024-1 CMBS, backed by big box logistics properties in Germany, The Netherlands, France and Spain.
Advised a participant in the £257.95m Taurus 2025-3 CMBS, backed by 14 logistics and light industrial properties and one retail park in the UK
Credentials
Education
- History and Italian, University of Birmingham
- Graduate Diploma in Law, Nottingham Law School
- Legal Practice Course, College of Law, London
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Solicitor, England and Wales
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11 June 2025
Press releases
28 February 2025