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Overview

The Hall & Wilcox Banking & Finance team provides advice on a broad range of banking transactions and advice to both borrowers and lenders, including:

  • syndicated, club and bilateral loan facilities and all related security issues, including PPSA;
  • asset finance and equipment leasing; 
  • real property finance;
  • workouts and debt reconstruction; 
  • acquisition finance; 
  • receivables finance; 
  • derivatives; and
  • enforcement of securities.

Clients of the Banking & Finance team include APN Funds Management; AWB Limited; AXA Asia-Pacific Holdings; Bendigo and Adelaide Bank; Boom Logistics; Caterpillar Financial; Dennis Family Corporation; Gunns Limited; LeasePlan Australia; Loscam Limited; Oxford Funding; Rabobank Australia; Rural Finance; Sandhurst Trustees; Bank of Melbourne (formerly St George Bank Limited); and Westpac.

Hall & Wilcox is a recommended law firm for banking and finance (including Superannuation and Financial Services) by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2012.

 

Experience

Our recent experience includes acting for:

  • APN Funds Management Limited on the restructuring of the parent trust debt for its European Fund (AEZ), which has total secured debt of $496m;
  • AWB Limited on commodity finance facilities totalling $290m; 
  • AWB Limited on a $50m operating lease financing for rolling stock with Commonwealth Bank of Australia; 
  • Bendigo and Adelaide Bank on a senior syndicated loan facility of $50m to Loddon Mallee Housing; 
  • Dennis Family Corporation on a bilateral loan facility in excess of $100m with St George Bank;  
  • LeasePlan Australia on a $50m bilateral loan facility with National Australia Bank; 
  • National Storage Property Trust on $170m senior and mezzanine syndicated loan facilities with National Australia Bank and Gresham Property Funds Management Limited; 
  • numerous clients, including AWB Limited, Caterpillar Financial; Boom Logistics; LeasePlan Australia; Loscam Australia; RetraVision on the implementation of the Personal Property Securities Act in Australia; and
  • Bank of Melbourne (formerly St George Bank) in connection with the recovery of a business debt of more than $2 million secured by several residential and commercial properties in two states.

People

Noel Batrouney

Partner | Banking & Finance
Commercial Dispute Resolution
Competition & Consumer Law
Agribusiness

Direct: +61 3 9603 3506 | noel.batrouney@hallandwilcox.com.au

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Mark Inston

Partner | Banking & Finance
Agribusiness

Direct: +61 3 9603 3597 | mark.inston@hallandwilcox.com.au

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Leong Khoo

Special Counsel | Banking & Finance

Direct: +61 3 9603 3642 | leong.khoo@hallandwilcox.com.au

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John Bassilios

Senior Associate | Banking & Finance
Corporate & Commercial
Financial Services

Direct: +61 3 9603 3580 | john.bassilios@hallandwilcox.com.au

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Denita Gould

Senior Associate | Banking & Finance
Commercial Dispute Resolution

Direct: +61 3 9603 3536 | denita.gould@hallandwilcox.com.au

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Desiree Krigsman

Senior Associate | Banking & Finance
Commercial Dispute Resolution

Direct: +61 3 9603 3415 | desiree.krigsman@hallandwilcox.com.au

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 Key Contact

 
Mark Inston
Partner
+61 3 9603 3597
Email