Jonathan Siu

Jonathan is a banking and finance lawyer with over 15 years’ experience in cross border and domestic financings, having practised in London and Singapore in addition to Perth in both an in-house and private practice capacity.

Jonathan advises clients across a diverse range of sectors, including within the energy, oil and gas, mining, property, shipping and offshore sectors.  He has acted on a number of award-winning and high-profile financings, and advises corporates, financiers, ECAs and other parties on the financing, development and implementation of major projects across the Asia pacific region.

Jonathan has been profiled as a rising star in asset finance in the Asia Pacific edition of the Legal 500, where he was recognised by his clients for his legal expertise and strong commercial sense.

Experience

Jonathan’s experience includes advising:

  • Australia and New Zealand Banking Group as lender and arranger to Mineral Resources Limited to finance 5 newbuild articulated transhipment barges. The financing was supported by Sinosure insurance cover;
  • Perenti Global Limited on its $420 million syndicated debt facility for the purposes of refinancing its existing facilities;
  • Ravenswood Gold Pty Ltd in respect of all its financing arrangements with senior lenders, equipment financiers and note holders in connection with the Ravenswood gold mine, located in Queensland, Australia;
  • DBS, Natixis, Westpac, NAB, SMBC, BNP Paribas, ANZ and Aware Super as senior lenders and hedge providers in respect of its $760 million syndicated facilities for Zenith Energy Pty Ltd to fund new growth projects, notably the 96MW Kathleen Valley Hybrid Power Station for Liontown Resources, the 88MW Bellevue Gold Hybrid Power Station and a 53MW renewable retrofit of Zenith’s existing Jundee Power Station for Northern Star Resources;
  • CBA / Bankwest in relation to a number of its property financings for Peet Limited and its subsidiaries;
  • Hastings Technology Metals as issuer in respect of its $150 million secured, redeemable, exchangeable notes issued in favour of Wyloo Consolidated Investments Pty Ltd;
  • SCB, CIC, Clifford Capital, DBS, KDB, Maybank, Natixis, Societe Generale, SMBC, UOB, CIMB, OCBC and MUFG as mandated lead arrangers in relation to the US$800 million project financing for Yinson Production (West Africa) Pte. Ltd. (a subsidiary of Yinson Holdings Berhad) of the FPSO John Agyekum Kufuor. The FPSO is on charter to ENI and operating offshore Ghana;
  • ING, Mizuho, Natixis, OCBC, Societe Generale, SCB, HSBC, CiC, SMBC and BNP Paribas as mandated lead arrangers in relation to the US$1 billion project financing for Gumusut-Kakap Semi-Floating Production System (Labuan) Limited (a subsidiary of MISC Berhad) in respect of the deepwater semi-submersible floating production system “Gumusut-Kakap”. The Semi FPS is on charter to Sabah Shell Petroleum Company Limited, and operating at the Gumusut-Kakap field, Blocks J and K, located about 120km offshore Sabah, Malaysia;
  • Subsidiaries of the sponsors, Inpex and Total on the financing of the US$34 billion Ichthys LNG project in Australia; and
  • Fortescue Metals Group Limited in relation to the financing of eight Very Large Ore Carriers (VLOCs) under construction in China.

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