Capital Markets: Debt - Australia
Band 2
What the Team is Known For
Allens maintains a strong reputation for its broad-ranging capital markets capabilities and works with a number of blue-chip clients, investment banks and other major financial institutions on significant ECM transactions including high-value block trades, IPOs and secondary offerings. The firm also possesses an impressive DCM practice working on a number of hybrid note issuances and US private placements. Allens handles matters involving offshore markets utilising the firm's cross-border expertise and its alliance with Linklaters. The team can draw on its significant regulatory expertise to advise arrangers and issuers, including institutional banks, on APRA guidelines.
Strengths
You feel like you are in good hands when you are with Allens. The team is high quality and delivers a great product.
Allens stand out for their commercial sense. They are great at responding under pressure and providing commercially considered and legally correct advice.
Work Highlights
Allens acted for the dealers, Barclays, Barrenjoey, Commonwealth Bank of
Australia, Royal Bank of Canada, and Westpac, on the issuance of AUD600 million subordinated notes by Ampol.
The firm advised National Storage REIT on its offering of AUD300 million direct exchangeable notes issue due 2029, through its wholly owned subsidiary, National Storage Finance.
Notable practitioners
James Darcy is noted for his DCM expertise and often acts for corporates and financial institutions in relation to MTN programmes and bond issues.
Julian Donnan is an established figure in the ECM space with experience assisting clients with IPOs, SPPs and placements.
He is great at managing client relationships, responsive and good at understanding our position. He really puts things into action and gets things resolved quickly.
Julian provides clear, concise, prompt and commercial advice. He leads a deep team in the ASX market.
