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Specialist Areas:
Paul specialises in banking & finance law and insolvency law which is complimented by his extensive experience in the property and commercial law fields.
He has completed numerous transactions involving commercial, property, consumer credit, acquisition, construction & development and government finance; factoring & invoice discounting; managed investment schemes; statutory trusteeships; administrations; liquidations; lending enforcement; mortgagee sales; and receiverships.
Career Summary:
Paul is the managing partner of the Brisbane office. He has worked at Denton Wilde Sapte, a multi-national law firm in London and as a senior associate for a national firm in Australia, specialising in banking & finance and insolvency.
Paul has represented major domestic and international clients in relation to banking & finance and insolvency matters. Some of those clients include: St George Bank, BHP, Scottish Pacific Business Finance, Allianz, Suncorp, Westpac, BankWest, Elders Rural, Macquarie, GE, ING, NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland, Dresdner Bank, Bank of Scotland, Citibank NA, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Bank of New York Mellon, Ernst & Young, Vincents, KPMG/McGrath Nicol, Bentleys MRI, SV Partners and Korda Mentha.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor of Laws (Bond University)
• Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test (London)
• Admitted as a Solicitor to the High Court of Australia
• Admitted as a Solicitor to the Supreme Courts of Queensland, England &
Wales
• Queensland Law Society and Australian Legal Practice Managers of Australia
• Award for Outstanding Achievement (2004/2005)
Memberships and Appointments:
• Member of the Queensland Law Society
• Queensland Law Society Banking & Finance Committee Member
• Member of the Turnaround Management Association – Australia
• Member of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation Qld
• Member of the Banking & Financial Services Law Association
• Legal Contributor for The World Bank Group (International Finance Corporation, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Development Association, MIGA and ICSID)
Transactions History:
• Acted for a Bank in relation to the sale of a loan portfolio involving over 100 loans for retirement homes and other property. The estimated loan value was in excess of $300,000,000.
• Acted for a Bank in relation to providing finance worth approximately $240,000,000 for the purposes of establishing a stamp duty minimisation arrangement involving Delaware (USA), British Virgin Islands, the Channel Islands, England and Luxembourg.
• Acted for Court Appointed Receivers & Managers in relation to the sale of 76,000 hectares of rural land, plant & equipment and livestock in Far North Queensland.
• Acted for custodians, responsible entities and lenders of Managed Investment Schemes throughout Queensland, New South Wales and the Northern Territory and the restructuring of finance and assets involving Managed Investment Schemes.
• Conducted a due diligence of a lending portfolio and documentation involving lending in excess of $1.2 billion with the facilities being provided by Westpac Bank, National Australia Bank and the Commonwealth Bank.
• Acted for a Bank to review the standard security documents adopted by a finance leasing company for the purposes of a loan portfolio acquisition. The loan portfolio had lending in excess of $1 billion.
• Establishment of and providing risk & compliance advice to a national company which services approximately twenty major funders throughout Australia.
Articles & Seminars:
Paul has provided manuals, seminars and training to a variety of international and domestic companies and lending institutions. Some recent compliance seminars related to the Anti-Money Laundering & Counter Terrorism Financing legislation. He has authored over 100 articles and been published in the Qld Law Society and various national lending publications. Some recent articles include: ADI Government Guarantee on Deposits; AML-CTF – Impact on Lenders; Unfair Preferences; Grounds to Set Aside Guarantees; Insolvency; Managed Investment Schemes; and Self Managed Super Lending.
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