SE Asia Banking & Finance

With our office being located in a prime regional banking centre and drawing on the strength of 27 partners and more than 70 solicitors based in Singapore and across Australia, our Banking & Finance practice in Asia has grown alongside the rapid growth in the industry over recent years.

Our focus includes sophisticated financing transactions ranging from acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs and capital raisings to project finance, retail banking, structured finance and securitisation. We handle all aspects of financial arrangements, from origination and negotiation to documentation and closing.

Importantly, we can add substantial value to the legal advice we give, drawing on many years of collaborative strategic and general commercial experience. Lenders, credit enhancers, sponsors, underwriters, borrowers, trustees, ratings agencies and packagers use us as a focus for high quality strategic legal advice in domestic and international transactions.

More specifically, our capabilities include:

• Trade finance – acting for borrowers and financiers in trade credit financing in Asia utilising a broad range of ECAs
• Securitisation – acting on numerous landmark transactions including domestic and offshore offerings in both rated and unrated transactions
• Project finance – advising both sponsors and lenders in the Asian region, which enables our clients to benefit from our multidisciplinary approach. Our role as advisers includes not only the structuring, planning, finance and documenting aspects of a transaction, but also strategic advice and analysis and a commercial understanding of contract negotiation
• Corporate finance – acting for banks, arrangers, underwriters, syndicates, clubs, institutional investors and corporate borrowers for all of their corporate financing requirements covering property trade and acquisition finance (takeovers), leveraged transactions (MBOs and LBOs) and large-scale corporate lending using a variety of structures
• Structured finance – developing structured finance solutions and played the major roles in the legal structuring of the only United States/Japanese/domestic airline ‘triple dip’ leverage lease aircraft financing which, to our knowledge, was ever successfully completed, and
• Debt capital markets – representing the full spectrum of market participants for both Australian and non-Australian issues.

We can help you facilitate and expedite transactions so as to achieve your commercial objectives, while providing responsive service and the very best technical legal advice.