Chambers Review
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Capital Markets: Securitisation - Australia
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
They have fantastic expertise and are very responsive. All partners are very personable, clear subject matter experts and consistently reliable.
Allens provided an excellent service that was particularly responsive to our needs and took a hands-on approach to managing the legal aspects of the transactions. They frequently anticipated problems.
Work Highlights
Allens advised Nestlé on the establishment of its Australian medium term note programme and inaugural dual tranche issuance of AUD1.2 billion notes.
The firm also advised AUB Group on its AUD880 million acquisition of UK-based insurance broker, Tysers, and associated AUD165 million equity raising.
Notable practitioners
Julian Donnan is an excellent lawyer and very commercial.
Robert Pick is a technically capable lawyer who is also commercial.
Rob is highly solution-oriented in his approach. We never hear about a problem without a proposed solution.
Benjamin is a great operator and has been exceptional to work with.