Profile
Miriam specialises in banking and finance.
Prior to re-joining Buddle Findlay in 2013, Miriam was transaction director at an international capital management company focusing primarily on portfolio acquisitions, structured finance, mezzanine finance and property development.
Miriam spent three years in the global loans and restructuring team at Allen & Overy in London followed by five years in the structured finance team at Lehman Brothers in London, including several years assisting the administrators of Lehman Brothers in working out Lehman's residential mortgage positions.
Miriam has legal and commercial expertise in securitisation, property financing, asset sale and purchase, restructuring, acquisition financing and warehouse financing. She has also advised lenders on cross-border lending and project finance transactions.
Work highlights
Acting for the purchaser
on the acquisition and financing of a portfolio of student accommodation properties
Acting for lenders
on various club and bilateral facilities to entities within the wine sector
Acting for a consortium of Goldman Sachs and Brookfield Asset Management
in a competitive bid to buy a $1.3b commercial loan portfolio from Bank of Scotland International
Acting for the senior lenders
on the restructure of Blue Star Group
Acting for Intermediate Capital Group
on their mezzanine financing of the acquisition of Tegel by a bidder consortium led by Affinity Equity Partners
Acting for various banks
on the provision of bilateral, syndicated, senior and subordinated lending (and related intercreditor arrangements) to entities within the dairy sector
Alternate contacts
Peter Owles
Partner, Auckland
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Paul Farrugia
Partner, Auckland
Board of Management
Paul specialises in banking and finance law and has a broad range of experience in domestic and cross-border financings with…
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