About Daniyal Ansari

Daniyal is a member of the firm's Banking and Financial Services team based in the London office.

Daniyal focuses on all aspects of real estate finance, and distressed and special situations investing predominantly in the real estatesector. With over 20 years of experience acting for lenders and borrowers in relation to investment and development facilities acrossasset classes, he has extensive experience in development and multi-tiered capital structures often involving intercreditor arrangements. Daniyal has acted on loan-on-loan financings, loan sales, workouts, receivables financing, LBOs and restructurings of leveraged and real estate financings. He also acts for lenders in relation to fund financings such NAV facilities and subscription lines. Daniyal is an active member of the firm’s Digital Infrastructure Industry Group and is actively involved in the developing real estate finance market for data centres. Daniyal is recognised in both the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners directories and described in Legal 500 as “technically excellent.

Legal 500 testimonials also state:

“Daniyal Ansari pulls together the team and has respect on both sides of a deal in order to provide workable solutions.”

“Daniyal Ansari is a class act - technically excellent, innovative, committed and commercial. His ability to get people around a table and agree a way forward is very impressive.”

Recognition & Leadership

Awards & Accolades

•Listed, Lawdragon, 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers, 2024-2025
•Listed, The Legal 500 UK, 2023-2026
•“Commercial Property: Development,” 2023
•“Commercial Property: Investment,” 2023
•“Property Finance,” 2023-2026

 

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Areas of Law

  • Finance
  • Other 3
    • Banking & Financial Services
    • Real Estate Finance
    • Digital Infrastructure

Practice Details

  • Languages
    Urdu/Hindi
    Fluent
  • Firm Information
    Position
    Shareholder
    Firm Name
    Greenberg Traurig, LLP
  • Representative Cases & Transactions
    Cases
    Experience: Representative Matters: A London-based credit fund on the c. 100m development financing of two PBSA projects in Italy.
    A London-based special situations lender on separate transactions for the development financing of assets in the student, hospitality
    residential sectors in the UK, Italy
    Austria.
    JPMorgan on the financing of a UK-based cold storage facility.
    AgFe in relation to commercial ground rent related financings.
    A syndicate of German lenders led by Berlin Hyp on the 435m financing of mixed-use commercial
    residential developments in
    around Amsterdam.
    Lloyds Bank plc on a range of transactions including: as senior lender under a c.140m financing of the acquisition
    development by Harrison Street of a portfolio of STEM parks across the UK
    the 160m senior
    mezzanine investment financing of the Thistle hotels group
    the 108m senior
    mezzanine financing (with PGIM as mezzanine lender) of the development of three PBSA projects in Manchester, Glasgow
    Newcastle
    the financing of an office asset in Jersey

    the c.183m financing of a flexible office business with sites across the UK, Belgium
    the Netherl
    s.
    Lodha Developers on a series of transactions: the 517m development financing from M&G Investment Management of the iconic 1bn development at No.1 Grosvenor Square, London W1
    the 340m financing of its development at No.1 Grosvenor Square provided by Cale Street Partners LLP

    the 98.5m financing of its development at Lincoln Square, London provided by M&G Investment Management.
    M&G Investment Management on a series of transactions including a 230m financing made available to an international developer in connection with the financing of a predominantly residential portfolio of br
    ed residences, the 80m senior investment financing of an office building in London
    the 60m financing of a hotel in Queens Gate, London.
    ICG Longbow as lender of 177m development financing for JTRE London of a400m mixed use development on the South Bank in London known as Triptych Bankside.
    Cheyne Capital on its 137m senior development financing of Regal London's development known as Shoreditch Exchange.
    DWS on a series of mezzanine
    whole loan transactions since 2014 relating to investment
    development assets in the UK (office assets in Hanover Square
    Queen Anne's Gate), Netherl
    s (PBSA
    BTR)
    Spain (Madrid shopping centres)
    secondary loan acquisitions in the senior living
    PBSA sectors.
    Deutsche Pf
    briefbank AG including the 68m financing of a retail
    office asset in Mayfair, London.
    Sculptor Capital Management in relation to its 36m development financing of a PBSA project in Liverpool.
    The above representations were h
    led by Mr. Ansari prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
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Experience

  • Bar Admission & Memberships
    Admissions
    1995, England
  • Education & Certifications
    Law School
    St. Catharine's College, Cambridge
    Class of 1996
    LL.M.

    University of Exeter/UK
    Class of 1994
    LL.B.
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  • Does this attorney speak any other languages?
    Daniyal Ansari speaks Urdu/Hindi and Fluent.
  • How many attorneys are in this law firm?
    Greenberg Traurig, LLP has 2750 attorneys at this location.
  • What law school did this attorney attend?
    Daniyal Ansari attended St. Catharine's College, Cambridge and University of Exeter/UK.
  • What year was this attorney's law firm established?
    Greenberg Traurig, LLP was established in 1967.