Grant Schulz
Special Counsel | Sydney
Banking and Financial Services | Transport
Grant is a banking and finance lawyer with over 20 years’ experience in cross border and domestic financings, having practised in major tier one international law firms across London, Singapore and Australia.
Grant advises financiers, borrowers, owners, export credit agencies, lessors, developers and funds in connection with all types of syndicated, bilateral and cross border facilities across a diverse range of sectors, including asset finance, property finance, and structured debt finance.
Grant has acted on a number of award-winning and high-profile financings throughout his career and has also worked for an extended period on secondment in the structured asset finance team of Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore.
Experience
Grant’s experience includes advising:
- ANZ on four limited-recourse facilities totalling USD787 million to part finance the procurement of four 174,400m3 LNG vessels built by Hudong-Zhonghua in China;
- Eksportkreditt Norge AS as lender, DNB Bank ASA as agent and arranger and Norway’s Guarantee Institute for Export Credit (GIEK) as ECA guarantor on the first Norwegian export credit supported facility of up to USD100 million to be used by Woodside to support the delivery of subsea equipment for installation on the seabed of Woodside’s 1.9 billion Greater Enfield project;
- North West Shelf Shipping Services Company and the consortium of owners including Woodside, Shell, BP, BHP, Chevron, Mitsui and Mitsubishi on the sale of their fleet of up to seven LNG carriers containing both Bermuda and Australian flagged vessels;
- Fiji National Provident Fund Board in respect of the financings of four (4) ATR aircraft leased to Fiji Airways;
- CBA on the leasing, financing and letter of credit facility relating to a GBP900 million order for 665 Bombardier Transportation electric multiple-unit rail cars for use on Abellio’s new East Anglia rail franchise in the UK; and
- Standard Chartered Bank on the USD1.85 billion bridge financing to SapuraKencana Drilling Pte. Ltd. as part of the USD2.9 billion acquisition comprising of both debt and equity elements by SapuraKencana of the Seadrill tender rig business involving 18 offshore rigs which won the Asian Finance Deal of the Year in 2014.