Lewis is a Partner in the Leverage Finance Team in London, specialising in Sports Finance and Structured Real Estate Finance.
He has a broad range of experience advising global investment banks, debt funds, institutional investors, leagues and clubs on various sports finance transactions spanning stadium developments, media financings, club acquisitions, league-wide finance packages and player transfer financings.
He also regularly advises lenders (both senior and mezzanine) and sponsors on multi-jurisdictional structured real estate finance transactions and loan-on-loan financings. He has also advised on the restructuring and work-out of legacy CMBS transactions.
Lewis is also an active member of the Commercial Real Estate Financial Council (CREFC)'s European intercreditor working group.
Acting for an issuer in connection with the issuance of £80 million worth of secured notes, secured against a portfolio of over 800 properties in the UK
Acting for Aareal Bank AG in connection with a multijurisdictional investment loan of up to €1 billion to Invesco
Advising Deutsche Bank in respect of the restructuring of the Brunel Shopping Centre Loan (£110 million), a distressed loan secured against an English shopping centre finance through the Deco 6 CMBS which required undertaking a discounted pay off process and an acquisition financing and an innovative note issuance structure including a listing on the Channel Islands Securities Exchange
Acting for Goldman Sachs Bank USA, HSBC Bank plc and Bank of America Merrill Lynch International Limited on their £425 million financing of Tottenham Hotspur's new, multi-purpose, 61,500 seat stadium
Acting for Goldman Sachs Bank in connection with the placing of FC Internazionale Milano S.p.A.'s (Inter Milan FC's Media vehicle) €300 million in aggregate principal amount of 4.875 percent Senior Secured Notes
Advising a top-tier European football club on the receivables financing of a player transfer
