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Provided by Nikki Smythe
Nikki is a finance and restructuring practitioner with extensive experience advising on complex domestic and cross-border financing, debt restructuring and insolvency transactions. Nikki acts for private credit funds, private equity funds, alternative investment funds, corporates, investment banks and other financial institutions on a broad range of financing, restructuring & insolvency matters including special situations lending, structured finance, complex real estate financing transactions, securitisation, rescue finance and restructurings, and distressed loan portfolio sales.
Nikki is highly experienced across a broad range of financing products and across multiple sectors, including real estate, financial services, mining, mining services, aviation, logistics, tech and healthcare, and uses this experience to help clients find innovative and bespoke financing solutions that meet the needs of their specific situations.
Nikki is the current Chair of the NSW Committee of the Turnaround Management Association. Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Nikki was a partner in the Sydney office of Herbert Smith Freehills.
University of New South Wales, BA/LLB, 2004
Admitted in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, 2005
Herbert Smith Freehills, Partner (2018 – 2024)
Clifford Chance, Partner (2024 – present)
Provided by Chambers
Nikki Smythe of Clifford Chance is a Sydney-based specialist in the handling of distressed debt, special situations lending and structured finance issues and acts for a variety of funds, banks and other investors on matters in both Australia and the broader Asia-Pacific region.
Provided by Chambers
Nikki Smythe ia an all-round great lawyer who I will follow to which ever firm she goes. She has my best interests in mind and has the highest integrity.
Nikki Smythe ia an all-round great lawyer who I will follow to which ever firm she goes. She has my best interests in mind and has the highest integrity.