Partner
Avi is a specialist in property and secured lending and jointly heads the London offices of BBS Law. Clients appreciate Avi’s commercial approach and an ability to find solutions where they may not seem so obvious.
Expertise
Avi’s experience and knowledge of the property and secured lending sectors enables him to apply a broad perspective to transactions.
Avi’s property clients are predominantly investors purchasing, selling or leasing commercial property as well as lenders securing their interests against property. Avi undertakes work across various sectors including office, retail, industrial and leisure and health.
When it comes to Secured Lending, Avi acts for a number of banks as well as several bridging lenders on a variety of different lending scenarios including rooftop developments, single unit and portfolio finance. Combined with the work Avi does for his investor clients on the borrowing side, Avi has a broad knowledge of the secured lending sector enabling him to provide clear and practical solutions to his lender clients.
Avi has a strong background in technology and its use within the legal sector and seeks to bring a modern approach to ensure the best possible solution for clients.
Recent Experience
- Refinance of a £30 million property portfolio refinanced with the British Arab Commercial Bank.
- Advising on the set up, development, finance and sales of multiple flats within a rooftop development in London.
- Purchase on behalf of an investor client of a single freehold asset for £3.15m, creating leases of 9 flats and dealing with the finance on behalf of the purchaser.
- Purchase of a high value and notable retail parade in North London for around £5m achieving exchange within 5 days of instruction.
- Acting on behalf of an occupier taking extensive premises for a medical facility in Paddington.
- Purchase and sale of a portfolio of 30 HMOs (approximate value £10m).
- Sale by way of Auction of a highly valuable petrol station site in North West London.
- Negotiation and successful conclusion of a variation of a lease with a high street operator to enable our investor client to be able to redevelop the property.
- Multiple matters for bridging lenders where there are tight timescales and unexpected complexities to consider.
Career History
Avi trained with Pannone LLP and qualified in 2006. He subsequently joined Cobbetts and then Read Roper and Read in 2009. Avi was promoted to Partner in 2010. Avi moved to Lawrence Stephens in Farringdon in 2017. In 2020 Avi joined BBS with his team to head up the new BBS London office.
Avi has graduated with honours with a Law Degree from the University of Manchester in 2004.
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