Lisa Seifman

Lisa Seifman specializes in data center financings and has advised on a wide range of market leading projects including borrowing base facilities, development financings, portfolio financings of stabilized assets, landbanking facilities, holdco financings and equity bridge loans. Lisa advises financial institutions as well as internationally active developers and operators.

Lisa has extensive experience in local and pan-European real estate finance transactions. She advises in relation to complex cross-border real estate financings, including real estate investment acquisitions and disposals, development financing, NPL portfolio purchases and "loan on loan" real estate financings.

Referred to as 'exceptional', Lisa is ranked as a Next Generation Partner in Property Finance. - The Legal 500 UK 

Representative experience

Digital Infrastructure Finance:

• Representation of Pure Data Centres Group, the designer, developer, and operator of hyperscale cloud and AI data centres, on securing a senior secured financing from an investment bank. The financing will support the development of a 78 MW, fully leased, six-acre campus in Westpoort, Amsterdam and the continued expansion of the Pure DC campus in Ballycoolin, Dublin.*
• Representation of Vantage Data Centers on a €750 million financing agreement to expand the company's EMEA portfolio.*
• Representation of Bulk Infrastructure Group AS on a €410 million senior secured loan arranged by a group of mandated lead arrangers to support the continued development of Bulk Infrastructure's N01 Data Center Campus in Norway.*
• Representation of Atman, a Poland-based data center provider, and its major shareholder Global Compute Infrastructure on an approximately €316 million development financing.*
• Representation of the lenders on the financing for the acquisition by Apollo Funds of the pan-European, highly interconnected colocation data center business from STACK Infrastructure, a portfolio company of a credit fund.*
• Representation of an investment bank in connection with an €800 million facility to finance the development, design and construction of a German data center.*
• Representation of the lenders in relation to the circa €1 billion development financing of two data centers located in Italy.*
• Representation of the mandated lead arrangers and original lenders on the financing of the acquisition of the Safehost data center business by IPI Partners, LLC.*
• Acting for the mandated lead arrangers, global syndicate, active bookrunners and original lenders in relation to a €620 million financing of the Data4 data center business. This deal was the largest data center financing completed in the European market to-date and covers 19 data centers across Europe; Winner of the "European Data Deal of the Year" at the PFI Awards.*

Real Estate Finance:

• Representation of an investment bank in relation to the financing of residential and commercial units in a super prime residential development.*
• Representation of a developer in relation to the development financing of a multi-family real estate development.*
• Representation of a credit fund in relation to the financing of a pan-European portfolio of real estate assets.*
• Representation of an investment bank in connection with a senior and mezzanine development financing of a build to rent development in the UK.*
• Representation of the lenders in connection with the mezzanine financing of a portfolio of European hospitality assets.*
• Advising a financial institution on the acquisition of the performing loan portfolio, and as finance provider to a private equity fund as purchaser of the non-performing and sub-performing loan portfolios of a pan­European CRE loan book.*
• Advising a financial institution on a loan on loan finance transaction with a large alternative asset management company headquartered in the UK in relation to their acquisition and refinancing of various residential non­performing loans in Spain.*

*Matters handled prior to joining Cahill.