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Mark Inston

Partner

+61 3 9603 3597
mark.inston@hallandwilcox.com.au
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Current Practice

Mark is the lead partner of the firm's Banking & Finance practice.

Mark has experience across a broad range of banking and finance transactions, including:

  • all forms of general borrowing arrangements, including bilateral and syndicated loans and related security issues for listed and unlisted companies;
  • asset finance and equipment leasing;
  • real property finance;
  • inventory/trade receivables finance;
  • derivatives;
  • restructuring and insolvency; and
  • PPSA.

Mark is a recommended lawyer for Banking & Finance by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2012.

Experience

Mark has over 14 years experience acting for Australian and overseas borrowers and financial institutions in a broad range of finance transactions. He has general practice experience acting for borrowers and lenders and has a specialisation in structured finance. 

Mark’s recent experience includes acting for:

  • APN Funds Management Limited on the restructuring of the parent trust debt with Royal Bank of Scotland for its European Fund (AEZ), with total debt of $496m;
  • AWB Limited on commodity finance facilities totaling $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 to Loddon Mallee Housing;
  • Marriner Theatre Group on a loan facility with Investec to finance working capital to run the Regent Theatre, Princess Theatre, Comedy Theatre and Forum Theatre in Melbourne;
  • National Storage Property Trust on $109m senior syndicated loan facility with National Australia Bank; and
  • 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.

Qualifications

Mark joined Hall & Wilcox in May 2008.  Prior to joining, Mark worked in the banking & finance practice of Freehills for over six years and in the asset finance department of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for over four years. Before studying law Mark had a career in the British Diplomatic Service, serving in the UK, Nigeria and Belgium.

Mark studied law at the universities of Würzburg and Frankfurt in Germany qualifying first as a German Rechtsanwalt, then as a solicitor of England and Wales. After further studies at the University of Melbourne, Mark was admitted as a solicitor in 2003 to the Supreme Court of Victoria.

Mark is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales and the Law Institute of Victoria.

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