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Our Banking & Finance team prides itself on its responsiveness to clients and its reliability in providing accurate quotes for legal fees. We are committed to understanding our clients’ businesses and the issues they face.
We invest in client-focused technology and staff training with the aim of developing a firm-wide approach that always results in top performance.
We draw on our wealth of experience and passion for service to provide our clients with a responsive, cost effective and interactive legal service where the commercial result for our clients is our aim.
We can provide online reporting systems to clients, via our web-based program called the “Matter Tracker”. This system is tailored to meet individual client needs. The tailoring of the Matter Tracker can be customised for different clients’ requirements.
Our expertise:
- Our business banking lawyers represent financial institutions, factoring companies, corporate borrowers, leasing companies and other participants in a wide variety of financing transactions;
- We combine sophisticated legal skills, business acumen and an appreciation of our clients' goals to develop innovative solutions for all types of financing transactions;
- Our lawyers help clients provide finance through such vehicles and structures as syndicated credit facilities, mezzanine finance and asset-based loans. We represent domestic and foreign commercial and investment banks, financial institutions, and venture capital firms, as arrangers, agents, lenders and borrowers;
- We are experienced in providing transaction management and property finance expertise for banks. Together with our local market knowledge this ensures that property-backed borrowings are efficiently handled for the benefit of all parties;
- Advising on structuring of commercial and property finance transactions;
- Preparation of security documentation including mortgages, bills of sale, charges, guarantees, priority agreements, collateralisation deeds, and most other forms of securities;
- Typically documenting property finance and business banking transactions up to $100m and settlement of those transactions including lodgement of documents for stamp duty and registration purposes;
- First lien/second lien structures and other transactions involving complex intercreditor issues, as well as commercial bank credit facilities, including working capital facilities, bridging finance, and other acquisition and recapitalisation facilities;
- Receivables-based and other asset-based financings.
Our Services
Our areas of practice include:
- Commercial lending
- Property based lending
- Structured financing
- Mezzanine lending
- Interstate finance
- Equipment financing
- Rural finance
- Property due diligence
- Mortgagee consent for leases and priority arrangements
- Discharges and variations
- Stamp duty issues
Key Contacts
James Price
Team Leader and Partner
T: 61 3 9605 0824
F: 61 3 9605 0933
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David Archer
Partner
T: 61 3 9605 0908
F: 61 3 9605 0933
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