Private Credit
Unlocking value with market-leading private credit expertise
We are not a legacy law firm with deep historic ties to major banks, instead, we have deliberately aligned ourselves with the needs and evolution of private credit providers operating in the Australian market. This alignment enables us to offer market-relevant insights, practical structuring expertise, and highly responsive legal support tailored to the evolving needs of private credit funds and their counterparties.
We have deep experience with structuring private credit deals across various debt markets from corporate finance, leveraged finance, structured finance, real estate lending, special situations and securitisation.
We also recognise that private credit transactions often require tailored expertise across a number of practice areas. Our finance team works seamlessly with our corporate, restructuring, regulatory and tax teams to bring innovative end to end solutions from deal structuring and execution, through to restructuring and enforcement.
How we can help
- Corporate finance
- Real estate finance
- Structured credit and securitisation
- Fund finance, NAV and back leverage transactions
- Leveraged finance
- Distressed debt and special situations
- Restructuring and enforcement
Your new kind of legal partner
Move forward with a law firm that’s leading the way in private credit strategies.
Full lifecycle advice
Our expert team delivers solutions for every stage of the investment life cycle, including direct lending, distressed investments, restructuring and exits.
360° market perspective
We are laser-focused on the private credit market and have unmatched local knowledge of the sector.
Cutting-edge solutions
Experience.
ADM Capital
Acting for ADM Capital in various financing transactions. For example, a secured bilateral loan to a manufacturer, corporate client, including associated warrants.
Wingate
Acting for Wingate on various property financing deals, and corporate financing deals, including the construction of a green Bitcoin manufacturing facility in Tasmania.
MA Financial Group
Acting for MA Financial Group in relation to a number of transactions involving the provision of credit to companies in various stages of their life cycles and for various purposes.
Longreach Credit
Acting for Longreach in relation to a number of transactions involving the provision of senior secured facilities to growth companies across various sectors.
Prime Value
Acting for Prime Value in relation to the refinance of property finance facilities for their commercial office buildings at 395 Collins Street, Melbourne and 34 Queens Street, Melbourne and various other CBD and suburban locations.
Merricks Capital
Acting for Merricks Capital in relation to the provision of various agricultural property finance facilities.
Altor Capital
Acting for Altor Capital in its secured bilateral loan to a satellite products developer client, including associated warrants.
Keyview
Acting for Keyview on a number of complex financing transactions including its investment in listed funds management business, Elanour Funds.
Zen Energy
Acting for the ad hoc group of noteholders on Zen Energy including in relation to a super senior facility.
Every deal is a big deal
The deal that matters most to us is yours. Whether it is a fresh deployment or a stressed position that needs careful handling, you get our full attention and we treat your transaction as our priority.
No two private credit deals are the same, and we don’t try to make them fit a template. We take the time to understand your strategy, your investors and your appetite for risk, then shape the structure and the documents around what you are trying to achieve.
Size and complexity change the work, not our commitment. Whatever shape your deal takes, you can expect us to be responsive, to know your business, to think commercially and to stay with you from the first term sheet through to exit.
A Capital Conversation
Why the people behind the deal matter more than ever
Australian private credit is now worth around $235 billion in assets under management. The harder question is no longer how big it can get, but how well it behaves when the cycle turns. We put that question to investors, operators and advisors at a private forum co-hosted with Fancourt Capital Group in Melbourne.
Inside the report
People over capital
Why the quality of the people behind a deal matters more than the volume deployed.
The CGT question
What proposed capital gains tax changes could mean for demand for structured credit.
AI’s blind spot
Where AI sharpens credit decisions, and where it can’t read the room.
Character counts
Why character, the third C, is what sets lenders apart.
Private credit isn’t about fitting something into a pre-defined box and just filling in gaps in a templated document.
Zina Edwards
Head of Finance, Hamilton Locke
Private Credit Team.
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