Tom Hunt

Tom is a talented corporate finance and debt capital markets lawyer with extensive experience acting for both banks and borrowers in New Zealand and overseas, with a particular expertise in infrastructure and project finance.

He has acted on some of New Zealand’s largest and most complex corporate finance and debt capital markets transactions and has consistently delivered results on those transactions.

Tom has extensive experience advising his client base of banks, corporates and a number of blue chip borrower clients on all aspects of financial services regulation. He is regarded as a leading expert on the AML/CFT Act and has particular expertise in relation to financial adviser legislation and all aspects of the prudential regulation of banks and insurers.

Tom began his career with Russell McVeagh in 2005 and returned to the firm in 2012 after working for three years as an Associate in the debt capital markets team at Maples and Calder in London.

Tom is a Russell McVeagh Board Member.

Tom is co-author of the New Zealand chapter of Project Finance in the Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guide, The Insurance and Reinsurance Law Review (8th Edition). and The Law Review's Virtual Currency Regulation Review.