Corporate Finance

Organisations are increasingly seeking funding options that stretch beyond traditional markets.

Our corporate finance team has the depth of knowledge, experience and insight necessary to assist our clients successfully to meet the demands of a changing corporate finance landscape, enabling us to provide real value.

Our experience includes assisting banking, debt fund and corporate clients in the Australian loan and debt capital markets and offshore loan and debt capital markets, including the US and European high yield and Asian syndication markets. This spans conventional and developing debt products (from senior syndicated lending to Australian TLBs) and includes acting on leading sustainability linked loan transactions.

Excellent market knowledge and intelligence, excellent attention to detail and proactivity in trying to progress negotiations between key decision makers.

Chambers Asia-Pacific

Coca-Cola European Partners

Advised Coca-Cola on its €1.95 billion Sustainability Linked Facility which formed part of the financing utilised to acquire Coca-Cola Amatil Coca-Cola European Partners (now known Coca-Cola Europacific Partners after the merger).

Discovery Holiday Parks

Advised Discovery Holiday Parks, Australia’s largest operator of lifestyle parks, on its financing arrangements, including on their recent $775 million corporate refinancing.

Flight Centre

Advised Flight Centre (ASX: FLT) in relation to various corporate financing transactions, including its syndicated multi-option corporate facilities.

Lenders to Woolworths

Advised the mandated lead arrangers on Woolworths (ASX: WOW) syndicated facilities. The lending syndicate involved over 30 lenders, providing syndicated and bilateral commitments totalling over A$1.5 billion.

Lenders to SEEK Limited

Advised lead arrangers on a circa A$1.4 billion cross-border multi-currency syndicated facility to SEEK Limited, Australia’s leading HR consulting company, involving advice in Brazil, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore provided by a syndicate of 20 domestic and international banks.

Lenders to Kinetic Transport

Advised a syndicate of domestic and global lenders, being 14 lenders in total, to the Kinetic Group, Australia and NZ's largest bus network, on a refinancing of ~A$1.1 billion of acquisition, growth capital expenditure, maintenance capital expenditure and working capital facilities. As part of the refinancing, the parties added a specialist green financing platform to the lending structure to finance the roll-out of electric buses in New Zealand.