Debt Capital Markets

The depth of our team enables us to provide top-tier services of the highest quality across all areas of debt capital markets. Many of our lawyers are qualified or have worked in jurisdictions outside of Australia, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Hong Kong and New Zealand.
 
We have comprehensive experience with and understanding of domestic and international debt capital market transactions. We advise, negotiate and structure the full range of debt capital markets transactions and offer effective solutions to the legal and commercial issues often encountered in those transactions. We anticipate the requirements of all parties to the transactions that we are involved in including lead managers and arrangers, domestic and overseas issuers, guarantors, investors, trustee companies, rating agencies and paying agents.

We provide clients with a comprehensive range of services including:

• Australian wholesale commercial paper, MTNs, TCDs and subordinated notes
• Australian hybrid note issues including tier 1 and tier 2 compliant issues and convertible notes
• domestic and international debt issues, including ECP, EMTNS, ETCDs, TLNs, private placements, subordinated and structured debt, US 144A or SEC registered issues and kangaroo bonds
• Euro-market transactions
• listing on the Australian, London, Singapore, Irish and Luxemburg Stock Exchanges
• APRA regulatory advice
• advice on related stamp duty and tax issues
• credit-wrapped transactions
• project and infrastructure capital markets issues
• securitisation, including synthetics
• section 128F Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 loan note structures
• trading and settlement systems for capital markets, such as internet-based systems or traditional exchange-based systems, including the SFE and Austraclear
• regulation of  capital markets

The firm is also a sponsor of an Advanced Debt Capital Markets course in the University of New South Wales' Master of Laws program, Australia's only specialist debt capital markets law course which was developed in conjunction with our securitisation and debt capital markets team.