Marc Glancy

Partner

Marc advises both lenders and borrowers on a wide range of finance transactions. He has particular expertise in high-value, structurally complex secured and unsecured financings. Marc also leads the firm’s Private Banks and Wealth Managers client sector.

Marc has considerable expertise in advising clients on a variety of financing matters. His core practice focuses on real estate finance, where he advises lenders and borrowers on the full spectrum of investment and development transactions across both commercial and residential real estate. He also works closely with corporate clients on their acquisition financing and general corporate lending facilities.

Marc also has experience in advising charities and not-for-profit organisations on their financing needs, as well as advising lenders on the provision of debt to charities. Marc also supports clients in structuring and implementing bespoke secured and unsecured financing transactions for trusts, family offices and high-net-worth individuals.

Marc has developed close links with leading international and domestic private banks, regularly advising them on high-profile loan facilities for their key clients, as well as on template lending and security documentation.

Marc also has a broad base of borrower clients, including corporates, landed estates, trusts and offshore investment vehicles, property investors and developers, charities, livery companies and schools, and a number of prestigious ultra-high-net worth individuals. The majority of Marc's work has an international dimension, and he works closely with the major offshore law firms and other international firms.

Clients are drawn to Marc's technical expertise and collaborative working style, as well as his significant experience as a transactional lawyer.

Expertise

Private Banks and Wealth Managers

Marc has extensive experience advising private banks on lending transactions and lending products. His expertise includes advising on loans secured against UK real estate (both residential and commercial and for investment or development purposes), lombard lending secured against securities and investment portfolios, loans to charities and trustees, and loans to ultra-high-net-worth individuals and family offices. His work spans advising on the optimal structure of transactions and initial terms through to drafting and negotiating facility agreements, security documents, guarantees and intercreditor arrangements. Marc also regularly advises private banks and wealth managers on their template lending and security documentation, and has conducted significant projects for many of them in recent years. In addition, he assists clients with the sale and purchase of loan portfolios and the internal transfer of mortgage books.

Property Investors and Developers

Marc works with both private and institutional investors and developers on all aspects of financing the acquisition of and investment in property. His clients have interests in range of property assets, including offices, mixed use developments (including commercial and residential schemes), hotels and leisure facilities, sporting venues, data centres, property funds, the private rented sector, shopping centres, student accommodation, educational establishments, assisted living and urban estates.

Education

Marc advises many of the leading independent schools on their financing arrangements including the issuance of private placement notes, revolving credit facilities and secured mortgage facilities.

Not for Profit

Marc advises several charities and livery companies on their debt financing needs and their provision of social investment loans.

Private Wealth

Marc helps high-net-worth individuals, family offices and family trusts to structure and implement bespoke secured and unsecured financing transactions, whether for working capital or investment purposes, debt arrangements between individuals, or loans made between trustees and beneficiaries.

Businesses

Marc advises corporates and financial sponsors (and their portfolio companies) at various stages of the corporate lifecycle – from initial acquisition financing, general corporate financing to exit. On the lender side he advises both banks and direct lenders, offering a pragmatic and commercial approach.

Work Highlights

Prime London office financing: advised a Singaporean private bank on a £42 million loan facility to a family office client to re-finance two multi-tenanted prime office buildings in Mayfair, London.

Residential portfolio financing: advised a property investment group on a £33 million financing secured against a large residential rental property portfolio in London consisting of over two hundred properties.

Super-prime residential development financing: advised a major Swiss bank on a £44 million term loan facility to an individual high-net-worth client to fund the development of a super-prime residential property in a prestigious central London location.

Infrastructure works financing: advised a private bank on its provision of £20 million of financing to fund the infrastructure works phase of a multi-purpose development, including residential units, student accommodation and retail units, in a major University town in South East England.

Revolving credit facility: advised a prominent common investment fund on a £20 million revolving credit facility for the purpose of funding acquisitions and bridge financing payments related to the redemption of units in the fund.

Landed estates: advised a large private estate on multiple high-value debt facilities with a private bank and on the separate issue of £105 million of unsecured, fixed interest private placement notes.

Private Placements to charities: advised a charity on a 30-year note purchase and private shelf agreement for up to £50 million from a multinational insurance investment fund.

LIBOR transition: advised the UK branch of a major Swiss bank on their LIBOR transition project, which included the preparation of new templates using SONIA Term as a reference rate and assistance with the transition of several hundred existing loans from LIBOR to SONIA term, which included regulated mortgage loans, non-regulated residential property loans and commercial property loans, as well as the bank’s entire book of lombard loans.

Testimonials

“Marc Glancy and his team to come out tops in terms of quality and clarity of legal advice. They are excellent, helping us to identify and resolve issues expeditiously, and have thus far been consistently reliable and very responsive." (Legal 500 2025)

"Marc Glancy is knowledgeable and has the ability to provide legal advice in a clear manner. He is very hands on in the transactions and personally deals with and oversees the matter, thus giving the assurance of quality work." (Legal 500 2025)