Qualifications
BCA, LLB (Hons), Victoria University
Admitted
2006, New Zealand
Gerard specialises in corporate and institutional finance.
He advises financial institutions and borrowers on a wide range of transactional and corporate finance product offerings. He has particular expertise advising on general lending, refinancing, leveraged, project and acquisition funding transactions; securitisation and warehouse funding programmes; project and infrastructure finance; international trade, pre-export and cross-border export credit agency-backed facilities and instruments; and transactional bank product development and documentation.
Gerard is uniquely placed to understand your financing requirements having worked across the banking product spectrum both in private practice at Chapman Tripp and Linklaters and in-house at a major New Zealand bank.
He is recognised as a Leading Lawyer by Chambers Asia Pacific 2024, Highly Regarded by IFLR1000 2024, and as a Next Generation Partner by Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024.
Recent highlights
- Working with international and domestic lenders to each of Auckland University, Sky Network Television, EnviroNZ, Steel & Tube and Restaurant Brands on their senior debt refinancings.
- Assisting Westpac with the establishment of receivables warehouse securitisation programmes for each of Thorn Group Financial Services and Eclipx NZ.
- Advising Westpac as lead arranger on financing arrangements for the acquisition of two significant Todd Energy power assets.
- Assisting Crown Irrigation with subordinated funding for the Central Plains irrigation scheme.
- Advising Export Credit Norway, GIEK and MUFG on the export credit agency-backed financing, construction and delivery of Sealord's flagship deep-sea fishing trawler.
Affiliations
- New Zealand market subcommittee of the Australian Securitisation Forum.
