James is a financing specialist whose practice spans project, corporate and acquisition financing transactions and fund level financing, with a particular focus on the infrastructure and energy and resources sectors.
James has advised both sponsors and lenders on major greenfield and brownfield projects throughout Australia and Southeast Asia and has experience in syndicated and multi-source debt financing, capital call, NAV and GP financings.
James is on the Asia-Pacific Executive Committee of the Fund Finance Association.
James is Partner in Charge of the Sydney office.
Key deals
Port of Geelong
Advised the financiers to Stonepeak and Spirit Super, in relation to the financing for their A$1.1 billion acquisition of Port of Geelong, the second largest port in Victoria.
Port of Newcastle
Advised Port of Newcastle on its financing transactions, including an ESG-focused refinancing transaction. The refinancing reflects the changing face of financing transactions for infrastructure assets participating in the commodity supply/export logistics chain.
Mereenie Oil & Gas Field
Advised the lender to Horizon Oil and New Zealand Oil & Gas on separate facilities to fund the acquisition of Mereenie Oil & Gas Field in the Northern Territory as well as financing further development activities.
Flight Centre Limited
Advising Flight Centre Limited in relation to its corporate financing transactions.
Major infrastructure investor
Advised a major infrastructure investor on all of its fund financing facilities, including its first capital call and NAV facilities and separate GP financings.
A leading Australian bank
Advising a leading Australian bank on capital call facilities to various private equity funds.