Banking & Finance: Acquisition Finance

The Johnson Winter Slattery Finance team has extensive experience acting on major domestic and cross-border transactions. Clients include domestic and international private equity sponsors, corporates and project proponents, together with credit funds, arrangers and investors. This means JWS has clear visibility on current market positions and debt market trends. 

JWS are regularly engaged to advise in major debt and capital markets raisings in the Australian, Asian, US and European markets and have strong relationships with leading firms in those jurisdictions.

The team specialises in advising borrowers, lenders and investors on:

• • management buyout and leveraged finance transactions, as well as debt funded corporate mergers and acquisitions 
  • traditional structural corporate finance facilities together with all working capital products including seasonal, transactional, working capital and structured asset finance facilities (including aircraft and equipment leasing and off-balance sheet structures)
  • private capital
  • project finance, trade and export finance and infrastructure finance across all sectors
  • green and ESG-based facilities including sustainability-linked loans and bonds
  • real estate finance (both development and acquisition finance).

JWS debt finance partners also work closely with specialist insolvency and restructuring colleagues to provide an integrated, cross-disciplinary solutions to clients’ needs.