Starwood Property Trust, an American real estate investment company and lender, helped refinance Paddy McKillen Jr.’s hotel investments.

Starwood is the primary lender in a transaction brokered by Trimont Real Estate Advisors, an international “complex and bad debt” asset manager on behalf of real estate lenders.

In a separate development, Oval Acorn, the holding company of the McKillen Jr. hotel group, has received approximately € 30 million in equity funded by Signal Capital Partners, a London-based private equity firm.

The Starwood-backed refinancing includes hotels such as the Glasson Lakehouse in Athlone and the Dean in Galway. Starwood and its subsidiary Starwood Capital Group have been active in the Irish market for the past decade. In 2013, Starwood Capital Group was the first