Within the finance area, I specialise in acquisition finance, bilateral and syndicated finance (both secured and unsecured) and related security arrangements. 

My clients include all four major Australian banks, Rural Bank Limited, and the insolvency and restructuring accounting firms Ferrier Hodgson, McGrathNicol, Heard Phillips and BRI Ferrier.

Career highlights

• All four major Australian banks, Deutsche Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Limited – acted in relation to a syndicated facility agreement provided to Australian Rail Track Corporation Limited
• Commonwealth Bank of Australia – handled a bilateral facility agreement with Australian Rail Track Corporation Limited
• Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Australia Bank and Westpac Banking Corporation – acted in relation to club finance facilities provided to Adelaide Brighton Limited
• All four major Australian banks, Royal Bank of Canada, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Limited – advised on numerous club, syndicated and bilateral finance facilities provided to ElectraNet, an electricity transmission line provider in South Australia
• ABB Grain and Viterra Australia – acted in relation to syndicated facilities and note facilities entered into with numerous Australian and overseas banks and other financiers

• All four major Australian banks, Rural Bank Limited, Bankwest – acted in relation to debt recovery matters, security enforcement and asset realisations, forbearance arrangements, debt and security assignments, and related matters
• McGrathNicol – represented the client in its capacity as the receiver and manager in the Barossa Valley Estate winery receivership
• Ferrier Hodgson – acted for the client in its capacity as the receiver and manager of the Boar’s Rock contract grape crushing and wine-processing business
• National Australia Bank – helped assign its debt and securities from the Autodom car components group to General Motors Holden and Ford Australia carmakers
• Heard Phillips – advised the client in its capacity as the receiver and manager of certain entities that own abalone fishing licences and quotas, and acted in the sale of these assets
• Australian Vines Pty Ltd – helped the client, in its capacity as the operator of 10 vineyard managed investment schemes (MISs), to wind up the MISs, arrange a sale of the majority interest in the MIS assets, restructure asset ownership and pay out the secured creditor, BankSA

• Advised and acted for insolvency practitioners, companies and private individuals in relation to company liquidations, voluntary administrations, deeds of company arrangement, personal bankruptcy, preference claims and related matters

Education
BEc, LLB, BCom

• MinterEllison Alert | Insolvent trading safe harbour and ipso facto reform exposure draft legislation and explanatory materials released, 31 March 2017
• MinterEllison Alert | Oops! Another PPSR disaster - OneSteel Manufacturing Pty Limited (administrators appointed) [2017] NSWSC 21, 09 February 2017
• Sham financing statements on the PPSR: problems caused and their resolution, 22 May 2014
• Minter Ellison Alert | Hire purchase agreements, vesting and the Constitution, 28 April 2014
• Minter Ellison Alert | Decision on whether receivers and liquidators must withhold tax in the absence of an assessment, 24 February 2014
• Alert - Administrator's liens: Priority may be defeated by a competing lien, 16 April 2012
• Alert - Insolvency anti-deprivation rule - recent decision may impact many commercial contracts, 19 September 2011