Senior Associate, Auckland
Paul Appleyard
Contact
- Auckland office
- DDI +64 9 363 0683
- M +64 22 741 150
Profile
Paul specialises in banking and finance with a focus on event-driven finance, complex and cross-border financing, syndicated lending and borrowing and portfolio acquisitions.
Prior to joining Buddle Findlay, Paul worked at a leading law firm in London for over six years. Paul advises both lenders and borrowers, within New Zealand and internationally.
Experience
Work highlights
Advising an investment bank
on its financing of a real estate sponsor’s purchase of Italian loan notes issued by a global alternative investment firm
Advising a major Japanese bank
on its acquisition of a multi-billion British Pound acquisition of a German aviation finance business
Advising a global homewares company
on a complex refinancing of its Asia-Pacific loan facilities, which involved a three-layer secured debt structure
Advising Lloyds Bank
on the interpretation and implementation of 'ring-fencing' legislation, involving, broadly, splitting Lloyds Bank into a 'retail' bank and a 'corporate/investment' bank
Advising Lloyds Bank and the Royal Bank of Canada
as mandated lead arrangers on the financing of Melrose Industries acquisition of GKN. This acquisition was the largest hostile takeover in the United Kingdom for almost a decade
Advising the banks
on a series of margin loans to companies controlled by an ultra-high net worth individual
Alternate contacts
Peter Owles
Partner, Auckland
Peter specialises in all aspects of banking and financial services law, with over 30 years' experience.…
- DDI +64 9 358 7047
- M +64 21 750 509
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 an emphasi…
- DDI +64 9 358 7042
- M +64 21 763 476
Miriam Andrews
Partner, Auckland
Miriam specialises in banking and finance. Prior to re-joining Buddle Findlay in 2013, Miriam was transaction director at an…
- DDI +64 9 363 0638
- M +64 21 491 781