Corporate Finance

Our corporate finance lawyers are known for their responsiveness, accessibility, clear client communication, technical and commercial excellence. Our lawyers are practical, solution-oriented and easy to deal with. The practice group’s “excellent quality of work and impressive deal management skills” have been recognised by Chambers Global 2008.

We are renowned for offering a high level of technical excellence while ensuring that the specific commercial needs of the financiers for whom we act are met.

The Corporate Finance team has significant experience providing strategic advice and guidance on a full range of corporate finance matters including:

• syndicated financings
• acquisition financings
• leveraged buyouts
• mezzanine financings (including retail note issues)
• bilateral and club facilities
• negative pledge financing
• structured finance
• project finance
• property finance
• derivatives

We advise the full spectrum of participants in debt financing transactions including:

• senior debt financiers
• mezzanine debt financiers
• government
• arrangers
• borrowers
• sponsors and other equity participants
• contractors and operatos.

The services we provide for clients include:

• strategic advice on transactions
• assistance in structuring transactions, to ensure that the requirements of each party are accommodated
• advice on the development of each aspect of a transaction
• drafting and negotiation of complex documentation
• taxation advice (including GST advice) regarding proposed structures
• stamp duty advice for the structuring of security packages for financiers.

Clayton Utz are also co-presenters and co-ordinators of the Australian Branch of the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association seminar program.