Why Watson.
The trusted partner in your financial case.
Named after Dr John H. Watson: the steady analyst who writes the case down, gets the details right, and lets the work speak.
Choose the door that fits.
Secured private financing
The borrower's dossierBridge and development financing for real estate and hospitality projects, from EUR 1M to EUR 50M+, with exceptions for the right opportunities. A principal reads your brief within 24 hours, and indicative terms follow within 72 hours of a complete enquiry. From there we take the file to the investors it suits and coordinate through to closing.
See how we finance projectsDisciplined investment opportunities
The investor's deskFor qualified and professional investors. Every file is assessed and structured, then taken through our nine-step due diligence before you see it. Each facility is secured against real estate, with a security package structured for that deal and set out in the file. You run your own assessment, and the decision to invest stays yours.
See how we present filesFrom enquiry to funding.
A borrower or broker submits a project, and a founding partner reads it. We assess it, structure the financing and prepare the file, then issue indicative terms. Only then does it go to the investors in our network it suits.
Each investor makes its own assessment and its own decision. We coordinate borrower, investors and advisers through documentation and closing.
Scrutiny
The project, the borrower and the conditions, checked first.
Structure
The numbers tested, the security set and registered.
Stewardship
Compliance, investor sign-off, and monitoring to repayment.
In their words.
Watson moved faster than the three banks we'd been circling for eleven months. With the right investors at the table in time for our third drawdown.
Mona Delingsby
Venus Consulting
Watson arranged three facilities for us in under a year. The value is in the clarity. We know within days whether a file fits, and what the path to funding looks like.
Torben H. Andersen
Xoill Group
A rare combination of institutional discipline and founder-level responsiveness. The Watson team reads the deal, not the checklist, and I still make my own decision on every file.
Alfonso S.
Investor
On the record.
The borrowers in our published files came to us for a few recurring reasons. Some had searched elsewhere for 18 months or more and needed a clear answer. Others had a project that needed one facility to cover an acquisition and a refinancing, or a purchase with its renovation. And several were introduced by someone from an earlier deal.
If you want to learn more, each case file sets out what was asked for and how it was structured.
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From the case files · Norway
A hotel portfolio, acquired and refinanced at once.
The largest facility on the book. CHF 34'200'000 for a family-run hotel operator, an acquisition and a refinancing structured into a single facility, LTV 34.5%, term sheet within 31 days.
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From the case files · Switzerland
Twenty-four apartments by Lake Geneva, financed.
CHF 12'000'000 for a development a Lake Geneva sponsor had spent almost two years trying to fund, LTV 25%, term sheet within six weeks. Structured to present to investors compliantly.
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From the case files · United Kingdom
A UK construction plot, termed within a week.
CHF 4'200'000 to acquire land as the first phase of a residential development, LTV 66%, term sheet within a week of first contact, for a borrower who had been searching for over 18 months.