Introduction

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Pikes & Verekers Lawyers’ Finance team provides a personalised and pragmatic commercial approach in many areas of finance including property finance, structured finance, secured and unsecured lending and project financing. 

We give individuals, private companies and financiers astute and practical advice. We have been involved in complex financial transactions (often with a property focus) including the acquisition and construction of commercial buildings, hotels, residential developments, industrial buildings and shopping centres.

Experience

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We have extensive experience in business, property development and other general finance transactions.

We are constantly assisting borrowers and lenders in small but substantial financing and refinancing transactions. We advise on corporate and finance structuring, taxation, mortgages and other securities and priorities between secured lenders. Recent transactions successfully completed include:

Major Hotel Group 

    • A $60m plus asset sale and subsequent business refinance in which we acted for the borrower and involving three major banks represented by separate large firms.

Construction and Development Refinance

    • A major debt restructuring for a construction development group involving the long-term refinancing of facilities of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Manly Art Gallery and Museum 

    • We were successful in obtaining confirmation from the ATO of Council’s DGR status in relation to a fund.

Contacts

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Mark Green

Partner
mgreen@pvlaw.com.au

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Kim Probert

Partner
kprobert@pvlaw.com.au

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Expertise

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  • Asset acquisition financing 
  • Business acquisition and disposal 
  • Negotiation of side deeds and tripartite agreements 
  • Significant loan facilities 
  • Competitive tender processes 
  • Corporate restructuring 
  • Finance derivatives 
  • Restructuring and insolvency 
  • Tax structuring 
  • Construction financing 
  • Corporate debt