Timothy Lipscombe

Practice Areas

Tim has been recognised as one of Australia’s leading Banking & Finance lawyers in Chambers Global, Chambers Asia Pacific, Best Lawyers International, IFLR 1000, Legal 500 – Asia Pacific, Asialaw Profiles and Doyle’s Guide. He has over 25 years’ cross border and domestic loan markets experience advising clients in the areas of syndicated, club and bilateral corporate and fund finance, leveraged and acquisition finance and real estate, property and construction finance.

At the heart of Tim’s practice is an unwavering commitment to client care. Forging longstanding deep and trusted relationships has seen Tim regularly act for prominent Australian and international banks and financial institutions, ASX listed and unlisted corporates, REITS and property developers and a number of Australian, Asian and US private credit funds.

Tim’s banking and finance experience includes:

ANZ, CBA, NAB and WBC: Acting on over 175 separate senior secured and syndicated, bilateral or club corporate, acquisition, leveraged, real estate, property and construction financings with individual deal debt values between AU$450 million and AU$30 million.

Farallon Capital Management Funds: Acting for the senior lenders on the AU$5.1 billion acquisition of Boardwalk Resources by Whitehaven Coal, the merger of Aston Resources and Whitehaven Coal by way of scheme of arrangement, the US$456 million acquisition by Aston Resources of the Maules Creek Coal Project from Rio Tinto, the subsequent IPO of Aston Resources, the subsequent Aston/ Itochu Joint Venture and 5 related corporate financings involving additional debt in excess of US$400 million.

UBS and Credit Suisse: Acting on the AU$1.46 billion financing of KKR’s acquisition of BIS Cleanaway from Brambles.

Transpacific Industries Group: Acting in relation to AU$1.4 billion in secured syndicated multi-option facilities lead arranged by NAB, CBA, WBC, ANZ and Deutsche Bank.

MA Financial: Acting in relation to 14 separate structured secured shopping, logistics and bulky goods centre acquisition financings in NSW, SA, QLD and VIC with debt provided by WBC, NAB, ANZ, Bankwest and Metlife – in excess of AU$1 billion.

SPH REIT: Acting in relation to the secured debt financing aspects of the AU$670 million acquisition of a 50% interest in the Westfield Marion Shopping Centre in SA and the AU$115 million financing of their acquisition of the Figtree Grove shopping centre in NSW.

FAB, MUFG and Perpetual: Acting in relation to multiple structured secured s.128F compliant subscription line fund financings with the capital commitments underwritten by Middle Eastern SOEs and foreign pension funds – in excess of AU$1 billion.

MaxCap Group: Acting on over 10 separate secured property acquisition and development financings in respect of assets in NSW and VIC with debt values between AU$145 million and $20 million.

TWT Property Group: Acting on over 10 separate property construction and investment financings in respect of assets in NSW and VIC with debt values between AU$95 million and AU$30 million.

GE Commercial and GE Capital: Acting on over 40 separate acquisition, scheme of arrangement, receivables, factoring, asset and corporate financings – in excess of AU$2.5 billion.