SWEF: General Data Protection Regulation Announcement

29 May 2018

NOT FOR RELEASE, DISTRIBUTION OR PUBLICATION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, TO U.S. PERSONS OR IN, INTO OR FROM THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, SOUTH AFRICA, JAPAN, NEW ZEALAND OR ANY JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO WOULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THE RELEVANT LAWS OR REGULATIONS OF SUCH JURISDICTION

Starwood European Real Estate Finance Limited: EU General Data Protection Regulations

This notification is made in accordance with the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulations (the GDPR), effective 25 May 2018.

In accordance with the GDPR, the Company hereby gives notice as follows:

To shareholders, directors and service providers that the data privacy policies applicable to them are available in the privacy notices for Starwood European Real Estate Finance Limited and Starwood European Finance Partners Limited.

The data privacy notices referred to above are available to view on the Company's website: http://www.starwoodeuropeanfinance.com/index.php/team-2/privacy-notices/.

For further information, please contact:

Ipes (Guernsey) Limited as Company Secretary - 01481 735879

Dave Taylor

Starwood Capital - 020 7016 3655

Duncan MacPherson

Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited - 020 7710 7600

Neil Winward

Mark Bloomfield

Gaudi Le Roux

Notes:

Starwood European Real Estate Finance Limited is an investment company listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange with an investment objective to provide Shareholders with regular dividends and an attractive total return while limiting downside risk, through the origination, execution, acquisition and servicing of a diversified portfolio of real estate debt investments in the UK and the wider European Union's internal market. www.starwoodeuropeanfinance.com.

The Group is the largest London-listed vehicle to provide investors with pure play exposure to real estate lending.

The Group's assets are managed by Starwood European Finance Partners Limited, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Starwood Capital Group.