Laura Holtham

Laura is a partner in our Banking and Finance team in Ireland.  She advises both international and domestic clients with a particular focus on real estate finance and fund finance transactions.   

Prior to joining Ogier in September 2022, Laura worked at a large US firm in London before moving to Dublin where she worked in the banking and finance team at a top-tier Irish firm. Laura is ranked as a "Rising Star Partner" in IFLR 1000.

Background and experience

Laura advises both domestic and international lenders, borrowers, credit funds, institutional investors and corporates on a broad range of financing transactions. Her practice spans fund finance, real estate finance, development finance, acquisition finance, corporate lending and cross-border financing structures.

Laura regularly advises Irish and international banks, alternative lenders, investment funds and sponsors on complex financing arrangements, acting on both lender and borrower-side transactions. 

She has extensive experience in structuring and documenting secured lending transactions, including real estate and hotel financings, fund-level and subscription line facilities, syndicated lending arrangements and refinancing transactions.

Recent work:

• Advising a large Irish bank on its SME lending portfolio – including real estate backed transactions, sale purchase financings and secured balance sheet lending
• Acting for an Irish non-bank lender on its short-term secured lending transactions
• Advising a US lender on its subscription facilities to a global fund with sub-funds located in Ireland
• Advising a bank syndicate on the €750 million refinancing of a large retail complex
• Acting for a global corporation on the refinancing of its credit facilities
• Advising a large national construction and development company in relation to their acquisition and development financings
• Acting for the purchaser of a large scale loan sale consisting of Irish originated commercial real estate loans with underlying collateral located across the globe and a loan balance of circa €9.3 billion

Admitted as a solicitor in:

2011 – England and Wales (non practising)

2013 – Ireland