Corporate and Institutional Banking & Finance

Our Corporate and Institutional Banking & Finance team has extensive expertise and experience across the full range of banking and finance matters including secured and unsecured facilities, bilateral loans, club facilities, syndicated facilities, subordinated and mezzanine financing including related intercreditor arrangements, domestic and cross border financings.

Leading domestic and global institutions ranging from banks, non-bank financiers, superannuation funds and offshore lenders through to listed and unlisted corporate borrowers, private equity houses, asset managers and property developers entrust us to advise them on some of the most significant financing transactions in Australia.

We offer strong capabilities and expertise across multiple industries including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, funds management, hotel and hospitality and property investment and development.

We deliver integrated commercial solutions to our clients by drawing on the support of subject matter experts across our regulatory, M&A, real estate, construction, tax, restructuring and insolvency practices.

Our recent experience includes acting for listed Citadel Group on a major cross border acquisition financing of leading UK radiology and maternity software solutions provider, Wellbeing Software Group.

Other experience includes acting for Sterling Global Capital in respect of the syndicated mezzanine financing of “OROS”, a development of 260 apartments, 106 serviced apartments and retail and communal amenity areas in Oakleigh, Victoria.

Our work highlights also include:

• acting for PDG Corporation on the construction financing with National Australia Bank Ltd for the QVM Munro site in the Queen Victoria Market Precinct, Melbourne;
• acting for the Australian subsidiaries of a major US based global corporate on its financing and transactional banking facilities with Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd and ANZ Bank New Zealand Ltd;
• advising DCF Asset Management Pty Ltd on the acquisition and debt funding of distressed assets from Rapid Securities Ltd;
• advised Barwon Investment Partners on the acquisition financing of Gosford Private Hospital;
• acting for Kathmandu Holdings Limited, a dual listed entity on the NZX and ASX, on the financing of their acquisition of Rip Curl Group Pty Ltd;
• acting for ING Bank (Australia) Ltd on the financing of AEW’s acquisition of 31 Queen Street, Melbourne; and
• acting for Westpac Banking Corporation in connection with the financing of the Focus Melbourne Apartments project.