Matthew Wilson
Matthew specialises in real estate acquisition and development finance, corporate and acquisition finance and debt restructuring and corporate turnaround.
Matthew assists many leading banks, debt funds, property funds, sponsors and other corporates with their financing needs across a wide range of industries including real estate, construction, agribusiness, retail, healthcare and technology/start up.
Matthew has been recognised as a ‘Best Lawyer – Banking and Finance’ by Best Lawyers™ Australia for 2020. Matthew is a contributing author to the “Banking & Finance” section of “Practical Law Australia” a Thomson Reuters publication.
Experience
Matthew’s experience includes advising:
- A national Australian bank on a secured loan facility to a borrower for the acquisition and refinance of a portfolio of 4 hotels and bars in NSW;
- A national Australian bank on secured loan facilities to a borrower for general corporate and working capital in respect of its IT systems business;
- A private lender on senior secured facilities to a borrower for the acquisition of commercial real estate (subject to tenancies) in Parramatta, NSW;
- A foreign bank on senior secured loan facilities (s128F) to a developer to assist with the acquisition of all of the strata titles across two towers in Sydney, NSW;
- A foreign bank on a senior secured loan to assist a German sponsored fund with the acquisition of an investment grade office (subject to tenancies) in Melbourne, VIC;
- A leading national construction and development company on establishing a number of debt funds to invest in, and leverage returns on, its developments in the ACT and South Australia;
- An international developer on its refinance of senior secured loan facilities from a global non-bank lender to assist with its residual stock and the development of further commercial and residential towers in Sydney, NSW;
- An Australian privately owned IT services company on its recapitalisation and in respect of its general corporate and working capital facilities (secured) from a national Australian bank; and
- Various corporates (in retail fashion/lifestyle) on secured loan facilities from national Australian banks and other financial institutions to assist with their general corporate and working capital needs (including acquisition facilities for expansion).