Banking and Finance

Our national banking and financial services group advises clients on the full range of financial transactions.

Our market-leading team represents (individually, as well as on a group/multi-lender basis) domestic banks, global financial institutions, alternative debt providers, private equity funds, family offices and listed and unlisted borrowers on both domestic and multi-jurisdictional financings.

We have established expertise in real estate finance, acquisition finance, asset & structured finance and project & infrastructure finance.
Core sector and sub sector expertise includes agribusiness; construction; data; defence; distribution; education; financial services; food & beverage; government; healthcare; hotels & hospitality; industrial; insurance; manufacturing & wholesaling; mining and mining services; office; private equity; professional services; real estate; renewables; social infrastructure; tourism; transport & logistics.

We are industry leaders in our markets, known for our ease of doing business, effective risk management, and delivering cost and process certainty.
We seamlessly collaborate closely with our corporate, construction, real estate, regulatory, restructuring, and tax teams to deliver tailored solutions for both portfolio-based and complex financing needs.

Key business partners we collaborate with on a regular basis include ANZ, CBA, NAB, Westpac, MaxCap, Qualitas, MA Financial, La Trobe, Centuria, Alceon, Judo, Zagga, Mulpha, Savills, DeutscheBank, AssetInsure.

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Our experience

  • Westfield Acted for Westfield in structuring its negative pledge based funding structure which requires all financer to accede to its terms, and also for the $22 billion refinancing for the split in 2014 into Westfield Corporation and Scentre Group.
  • PayPal Acting as Australian legal advisors to PayPal. PayPal’s unique nature gives rise to a variety of regulatory issues and requires comprehensive and tailored legal advice.
  • Pact Group Acted for Pact Group in relation to its debt financing arrangements, including it’s A$558 million and NZ$216 syndicated facilities with a syndicate of domestic and international banks; and its US$900 million US Term Loan B financing.
  • Multiple Australian trading banks Acted in relation to a syndicated corporate finance facility provided to PSC Insurance Group.
  • Greens Food Group Acted in connection with new debt facilities ($50 million) provided by a Major Australian trading bank.
  • Financiers Acted for the financiers in relation to all Australian law matters relating to new global financing facilities for the Taghleef group of companies.
  • Major Australian trading bank Acted in relation to facilities provided to Qantm IP Ltd for its IPO.