Mun Lai is a Special Counsel in the Banking and Financial Services team in the firm’s Melbourne office. Mun Lai has acted for lenders and borrowers in a wide range of financing matters in Australia including project, acquisition, receivables and trade financing.
Before moving to Australia, Mun Lai was a Partner in a prominent law firm in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A substantial part of her skills was built on experiences accumulated during her practice in Malaysia where she advised on a variety of financial structures ranging from conventional and Shariah-compliant facilities, debt instruments, hybrid and bank capital instruments, asset backed securitisation to structured products. Mun Lai is conversant in Mandarin, Cantonese and Malay and has assisted many Asian-based clients with cross-border transactions involving jurisdictions in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Europe, United States of America and Canada.
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- Major Australian Banks Advised on a project financing facility to fund a sand mining project for a joint venture, an acquisition financing granted to a borrower in the agriculture business and drafted sustainability financing terms.
- Non-Bank Financier Advised a non-bank financier on a mezzanine construction facility granted to a partnership to fund the development of a residential project.
- Listed Borrower Advised a listed entity in Australia in respect of the introduction of sustainability-linked terms in a syndicated financing facility.
- China Advised a financier in China on a financing facility granted to fund the construction of a hotel in Perth using prefabricated volumetric modules.
- Taiwan Advised a Taiwanese bank in the funding of a redevelopment project in Sydney.
- Cross-border transactions Advised financiers in connection with borrowing base facilities granted to borrowers in the agricultural industry, commodity trading business as well as financial services business involving assets in Singapore, Australia, US, Canada and Europe.
