Profile

Will specialises in banking and finance with particular expertise in derivatives and securities financing.

He advises clients on both sides of the derivatives market on trading all asset classes - from global investment banks to smaller regional banks, broker/dealers, hedge funds, and traditional asset managers.

Prior to joining Buddle Findlay, Will spent nine years working in the derivatives team at Fieldfisher in London, including one year on secondment at ICBC Standard Bank.

(UK qualified)

Work highlights

Work highlights

Advising RF Corval Group

on its acquisition and development of the Sherwood Hotel, Queenstown

Advising the respective lenders

in their funding of the Eastland Group and the Eastland Generation groups of companies

Advising the finance parties

on the project financing of Tauhei Solar Farm, being developed by a joint venture between Harmony Energy and First Renewables (a Clarus company).  On completion in late 2026, the solar farm will add 202 Megawatt peak (MWp) of energy capacity to the New Zealand grid

Acting for the hedge counterparties

on a transaction under the Infrastructure Funding and Financing Act implemented by Crown Infrastructure Partners

Acting for a bank

providing deal contingent fx and interest rate hedging to private equity/corporate clients party to company/business acquisitions

Acting for the hedge counterparty

in connection with loans to European real estate funds to be securitised – including ensuring compliance of trading documentation and credit support arrangements with ratings agencies' criteria and UK/EU derivatives market regulation

Experience

Experience

Sector/Expertise

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